The study shows that most of the respondents preferred PDF as a convenient format to use e-books. The findings revealed that majority of the respondents use e-books for project/research work, term paper, course assignment, learning more about a subject and for seminar presentation. It also reveals that they do not use e-book from the university’s library webpage, as long as they could get the desired books from the university library. The findings also indicated that they are not aware on how to access e-books in the library webpage. Kindle, Sony reader) and e-book open access sites. The study revealed that most of the respondents are partially aware of the availability of e-book in their area of specialization, dedicated e-book reader devices (e.g. Descriptive statistics was used to answer the research questions. A survey research design was adopted and structured questionnaire was used to collect data. However, the study investigated the awareness and use of electronic books among undergraduate students in Afe Babalola University Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria. The increasingly growth of electronic books has created an enabling access to and use of e-prints within the confine of one’s environment thereby providing wider accessibility and usability. It is paramount for university administrators to encourage the adoption of electronic books by promoting a lecturer-student model and improving the user interface to encourage the use of these resources. Performance expectancy and effort expectance significantly influenced male students, while effort expectancy, social influence, facilitating conditions influenced female students significantly.
In examining the intention to adopt e-books, using the UTAUT model, results showed that performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence and facilitating conditions were major determinants of e-book adoption, while gender played a moderating role. Students in federal and state universities showed preference for e-books while private university students showed preference for paper books. Results showed that usage of electronic books in scholarly databases, procured by the library, was relatively low, with more than 50 per cent of respondents claiming to have used e-books only once. The population consisted of 300 undergraduate students from federal, state and private universities in Kwara State, Nigeria. The study examined the adoption of electronic books (e-books) among undergraduate students in Kwara State, Nigeria using the unified theory of technology acceptance and use model (UTAUT), with a view to understanding the factors that lead to its adoption.
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