Archive for the ‘Publishing Industry’ Category
How Much Does Your Online Legal Search Vendor Know or Could Know About You and Your Clients?
01
Sep
Got any clue? Jason Wilson writes: I sometimes wonder how much these CALR vendors could know about you (lawyer/law firm) and your clients at any given moment. Sure, they might not know names, but they would know if related C/M…
Contemplating “RIP AALL” Ahead of Boston 2012: Muster of the Minutemen (and Minutewomen)
31
Aug
As an organization of institutional buyers, AALL is on the verge of becoming irrelevant. Just follow the money. Look at where our major “legal professional service vendors” are spending their ad and meeting sponsorship dollars for marketing their wares. It…
Duke, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, and Emory To Offer Orphan Works Electronically
29
Aug
I wrote at the end of June about the decision by the University of Michigan Libraries to give campus access to electronic versions of orphan works scanned by Google from the school’s collection. See University of Michigan To Allow Campus…
Time for AALL to "Interfere" in Licensing: An Approach for Petitioning State Governments
29
Aug
Initially I thought the title of this post would be “Time for a Model Act on Fair Use Preservation in Licensing of Electronic Content?” Certainly UNC Law’s David Robert Hansen has provided a working draft for consideration by the NCCUSL…
Creating a Total Package to Compete with Wolters Kluwer in the 21st Century: BLaw+BNA and BGov+BNA in the Specialist Law, Regulatory and Business Marketplace
26
Aug
Assuming a majority of BNA former and current employee-shareholders tender their shares, an assumption that must take into account that many current employees are union-represented, Bloomberg, a company not known for acquiring other companies, will have made its largest acquisition…
Bloomberg To Acquire BNA!
25
Aug
I’ve written that I thought Bloomberg Law should acquire BNA. In Philly, I even asked BLaw execs if I would get a “finder’s fee” if “we could make that happen,” LOL. It just makes sense. BNA only has about 1%…
Legal Research Fantasies: Finding the Answer and Saving Time
24
Aug
On 3 Geeks, Greg Lambert takes exception to what Rich King, TR CTO, says at the 42 second mark in the below video. King states One page from one jurisdiction may be exactly what that attorney is looking for that…
Will ePUB3 Lead to the Enhanced eBook?
23
Aug
The enhanced eBook, by which I mean an interactive product that seemlessly integrates embedded audio, video and applications related to content contextually, will make current eBook offerings obsolute at least with respect to professional and educational eBook literature. ePub has…
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear, but a TR Tax & Accounting Catalog on the Same Day as an Advance Renewal Invoice for a WG&L Print Title
19
Aug
I should add luckily both appeared before my wondering eyes on the same day … that would be yesterday. While any regular reader of LLB knows that I am less than delighted with the editorial quality and pricing of many…
