Due to paucity of funds to buy books and journals many private universities in Nigeria and other parts of the world leverage on the benefits of eBook usage thus eBooks has become the saving grace for many students. The aim of this study therefore is to find out the pattern of usage of eBooks at the Glorious Vision University, Nigeria compared with other parts of the world. Using the Ajzen`s Theory of Planned Behaviour and Social Media Use as explained by Cameron et al (2012) as the theoretical model for the survey and literature review, Descriptive research design of survey type was adopted for this study with the population of the study of 403 (364 undergraduate and 39 postgraduate) students of Glorious Vision University, Ogwa Nigeria. The respondents were stratified to undergraduate and postgraduate students while the instrument of data collection used was close-ended self-structured questionnaire. To ensure the reliability of the instrument, the questionnaire was pretested with several students not included in the study sample. The paired scores generated from the test were analyzed using Cronbatch Alpha method through the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS). From literature, among 120 participating universities in UK, Nicholas (2008) found that e-books usage was very strong, with 61% of students that participated in the survey using e-books for their academic work. Majority of the participants (91.6%) reported that they used e-books for work and study purposes. Americans however, are spreading their book consumption across several formats. There has been an uptick in the share of Americans who report reading e-books, from 25% to 30%. The result of the analysis shows that the types of e-books used at the Glorious Vision University library are Academic/research/school/class e-books (202, 80.2%). However, Hand-held device such as iPhone or Blackberry (187, 74.2%) and eReader such as Kindle or Nook Google Books (181, 71.8%) are used to access the eBooks while technical manuals (108, 42.7%) and cook books (63, 25%) are used but at a very low level. The level of usage of e-books in Glorious Vision University is high but the use of e-book as a reference tool is low (x=2.77). The pattern of eBook usage is just to extract particular information needed by the students and not to read the whole book. It was also noted from the result that the level of students' satisfaction on the use of e-books in this university is high. From the test of hypothesis, result shows that there is significant relationship between the usage and satisfaction of e-books by the students of Glorious Vision University. It can then be implied from the result of this study that the usage of eBooks by students in the university system in Nigeria can meet up with the level of usage in other developed nations of the world though the sample pose a limitation to the study in the world comparison. However the data generated in this study will be a good tool for further study on eBooks usage among university students.
