Recently Chicago made a provisional decision to join the ranks of law reviews like Harvard, Yale and Stanford by establishing a quasi-peer review system for article submissions. In Chicago Law Review Chutzpah, Stephan Bainbridge, William D. Warren Distinguished Professor of…
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"Trusted Legal Resources:" A Recognized Brand Will Not Retain Its Strength by Continued Dilution of Editorial Quality
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…
A Quick Follow-Up to Broken Vendor Business Models: SWAG for Complaints!
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
“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…
eReading Application Showdown
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…