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…
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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…
Have You Test Driven HeinOnline’s New Across-All-Subcriptions Search Engine?
23
Sep
And the Company isn’t branding it HeinOnlineNext and isn’t requiring a premium upgrade charge to use its search engine enhancement. Well, we wouldn’t expect Hein & Co. to do either or both… . From the HeinOnline blog post: This past…
Market for Enhanced eBooks Remains Largely Untapped But…
21
Sep
According to Aptara’s Uncovering eBooks’ Real Impact: Third Annual eBook Survey of Publishers, (free registration required) “[b]ook publishers are far more focused on getting titles into current eBook formats than on creating new types of enhanced and media-rich content—another reminder…
The WestSearch Straitjacket For Legal Research – Thinking Beyond The Keyword: Part II
14
Sep
In Part 1, we examined evidence for two kinds of limitations on WestSearch’s effectiveness. Ron Wheeler has studied limitations related to how WestSearch ranks documents for importance and relevance. (Does WestlawNext Really Change Everything?, 103 Law Libr. J. 359 (2011))…
Who Is Buying WestlawNext?
12
Sep
As we all know WestlawNext was launched in February 2010. Every quarterly report by TRI since then has reported WLN sales and beginning with 3Q 2010 WLN sales as a percent of Westlaw revenue. See below (Note: customer numbers are…
Vote for the Best and Worst Law Product Mergers
09
Sep
Jean O’Grady has launched a poll for law librarians (and others) to assess the consequences of the legal publishing industry consolidation for once independently owned but now “brand” products of Thomson Reuters, Reed Elsevier and Wolters Kluwer. Jean writes I…
The WestSearch Straitjacket For Legal Research – Thinking Beyond The Keyword: Part I
07
Sep
Thomson Reuters – Legal (TR Legal) advertises sweeping claims for the benefits of WestlawNext (WN) at Customers. WestlawNext.com. Given the scale of the advertising blitz, these claims merit careful examination. Though it remains too early to reach a conclusion, initial…
Should The Legal Profession Be Deregulated?
24
Aug
An opinion piece called Time to Deregulate the Practice of Law (subscription) appeared in the Wall Street Journal on Sunday. It was written by Clifford Winston and Robert W. Crandall. Winston is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution while…
Should The Legal Profession Be Deregulated?
24
Aug
An opinion piece called Time to Deregulate the Practice of Law (subscription) appeared in the Wall Street Journal on Sunday. It was written by Clifford Winston and Robert W. Crandall. Winston is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution while…
