NPR’s Interpreting The Constitution In The Digital Era featured Jeffery Rosen on Nov. 30th to discuss Constitution 3.0: Freedom and Technological Change (Brookings Institution Press, Nov. 29, 2011)[Amazon] he co-edited with Benjamin Wittes. From the blurb for the book: Technological…
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A Bit More On e-Books And Libraries
09
Dec
An article in The Atlantic called Library Wars: Amazon and Publishers Vie for Control of E-Book Rentals by Peter Osnos that examines the publishing world’s paranoia with e-books. They love the idea of selling them at prices comparable to print…
Google Books Comes To The UK
07
Oct
Cheap tablets from competitors may have had one effect on Google. Amazon has released the Kindle Fire as a convenient front end to its massive store with expectations that the Fire will be sold globally. Google Books was never available…
First Thoughts On The Kindle Fire
28
Sep
Pundits are calling Amazon’s new Kindle Fire tablet a serious contender to the Apple iPad. I agree that it is a contender, but not because it matches the amenities that Apple offers in their product. The basics of the Kindle…
Thomson Reuters Is Going to Win the Second Round of the Law eBook Slugfest
27
Sep
Looks like the first round goes to Lexis. While you can acquire a few TR Legal eBooks via Amazon (yawn) and you can acquire some CCH and ABA eBooks on their e-commerce site (ditto, yawn), by the end of the…
Positioning "One’s Self as an Insightful Chameleon Rather Than as an Isolated Purveyor of Facts and Figures"
15
Aug
I guess that’s the gist of Ari Kaplan’s Reinventing Professional Services: Building Your Business in the Digital Marketplace (Wiley, June 8, 2011) [Amazon]. I haven’t read it yet but perhaps I should. “This book expertly showcases the multitude of opportunities…
