Correlation analysis between users' educational level and mobile reading behavior

Library Hi Tech

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 424-435

  Zhang, Liyi ^a   Ma, Wei ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Consumer behaviour; Educational level; Electronic books; Levels of education; Mobile reading; Students; User behaviour; User interfaces

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052565507     PISSN: 07378831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/07378831111174396     Document Type: Article

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