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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The Bloomberg Law-SCOTUSblog Connection: More Than Just an Exclusive Ad Sponsorship Deal
28
Sep
Bob Ambrogi reviews what by his count is the fourth major redesign of SCOTUSblog, highlighting some of its new features as well as a pulling back on some of the last redesign’s features according to quoted comments by SCOTUSblog’s founder…
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…
A Bit More On The Rudovsky Case
23
Sep
I wrote a post a while back called The Rudovsky Case and Quality Control. The thrust of the case is that West Publishing (the defendant) libeled two authors, David Rudovsky and Leonard Sosnov, by updating their treatise called Pennsylvania Criminal…
Reminder: Dewey B Strategic’s Survey on the Best and Worst Legal Publishing Mergers Closes Today
23
Sep
Here’s the post with link to the survey. Watch for Jean O’Grady’s forthcoming summary and survey findings on Dewey B Strategic. [JH]
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…
Going the Distance: Lexis to Offshore Some Not Yet Specified Number of Jobs to the Philippines
19
Sep
Last month Lexis Global Legal & Professional informed its US workforce that it was planning to offshore some jobs to the Philippines next year. Most of the positions affected reportedly will be in Global Customer Services and Support. See the…
More HathiTrust Lawsuit News
Here’s a bit more on the Authors Guild suit against the HathiTrust. There is short commentary by Irvin Muchnick criticizing the Guild’s action published in BeyondChron, an alternative paper in the San Francisco area. Muchnick, noted for his championship of…
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