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"Trusted Legal Resources:" A Recognized Brand Will Not Retain Its Strength by Continued Dilution of Editorial Quality

18 Aug

At MIT last year, my favorite global publishing CEO, Tom Glocer, explained to MIT students that a “strong brand” is a signal for quality content (video below). Hardly a new idea. I don’t know any law librarians who don’t check…

 

Paywalls Coming to Main Street Newspapers

16 Aug

Paywalls are coming to small and mid-sized newspapers. paidContent’s Laura Hazard Owen reports the online content for 23 of MediaNews Group’s newspapers in California, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Massachusetts and Vermont are now behind metered paywalls. The change became effective yesterday….

 

Paywalls Coming to Main Street Newspapers

16 Aug

Paywalls are coming to small and mid-sized newspapers. paidContent’s Laura Hazard Owen reports the online content for 23 of MediaNews Group’s newspapers in California, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Massachusetts and Vermont are now behind metered paywalls. The change became effective yesterday….

 

A "Modern" Update by the Folks from the Land of 10,000 Invoices for Modern Tort Law

16 Aug

Quoting from a recent law-lib message: For those who subscribe to West’s Modern Tort Law in paper format, did you get your June update? We just did. We received the new table of contents and revised chapters 6 & 14….

 

eBook Price Fixing Charges Leveled Against Apple and Five the “Big 6” Publishers in Class Action Complaint

12 Aug

paidContent’s Laura Hazard Owen reviews the class action lawsuit filed on August 9, 2011 in the US District Court for the Northern District of California against Apple, Hachette, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, HarperCollins and Penguin alleging the defendants unlawfully fixed…

 

A Quick Follow-Up to Broken Vendor Business Models: SWAG for Complaints!

10 Aug

I don’t tweat but if I did I would follow up Law Firm Libraries Approaching a “Network-style Meltdown” in Conducting Business with Vendors with a tweat about Greg Lambert’s Dear Vendors – Upgrade Your Data… Not Your SWAG on 3…

 

Law Firm Libraries Approaching a "Network-style Meltdown" in Conducting Business with Vendors

08 Aug

“Vendors, your vendor business model is broken” for institutional buyers in the only market segment that matters to our major, very expensive and very tradition-bound vendors in terms of huge guaranteed revenue streams (law firms and corporate accounts). Once taken…

 

Something New: Video Abstracts of Published Research Articles

06 Aug

On July 29, 2011, Dove Medical Press announced its launch of video abstracts for the Company’s 100-plus peer reviewed medical and scientific journals. As papers are accepted for publication, the author is given the opportunity to present a brief video…

 

eReading Application Showdown

05 Aug

India Amos has launched a series of articles to analyze eReaders by functionality titled E-Reading Application Showdown on Digital Book World: The Publishing Community for the 21st Century. The areas she plans to discuss are Annotation Typography Colors and themes…