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Originally Posted by yagiz
It would also be interesting to know using what type of device these e-books are read. I would not be surprised if most of them are read on computers and not on e-readers.
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By and large, scientific articles are either read onscreen or they're printed out and highlighted/marked up. However, this is changing somewhat with the new generation of students.
This may shock some of you, but when I worked for a journal and we were putting our archive of back issues up, a huge majority of our readers were very clear that they wanted PDF scans of the articles. This was so that they could print them out and basically have a replica of the journal article as it appeared in print. Mind you, this was a few years ago, and was primarily the view held by the older researchers. The younger ones generally just wanted access to the material and didn't care how it was presented.