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Dewey B Strategic
New York Law Institute Announces Lexis Matthew Bender and ABA eBook Library Offering Hundreds of Titles for Members
By Jean O'Grady
Earlier this year I reported on the New York Law Institute's dramatic transformation into a national membership library offering an unprecedented eBook collection including over 85,000 titles. This month they have…
Antitrust Law Blog
The Second Circuit’s Apple Ebooks Opinion
The Second Circuit affirmed the district court and held, 2 to 1, that defendant Apple Inc. had violated Section 1 by masterminding the creation, organization and implementation of a conspiracy…
Antitrust Law Source
Part Two: Has Amazon.com® become an….. amazon? Taking a bite out of Apple
Our second segment of this three- part series adds some background to the publishing landscape, and through the antitrust saga involving Apple and the largest publishing companies, explores how the…
Dewey B Strategic
ProView Professional: Thomson Reuters Promises eBooks Which “Break the Book Paradigm”
By Jean O'Grady
It is no secret that I am not fond of ebook technology. Back in 2011 I described my concerns in a post eBooks: Why are Publishers Pouring Digital Content into 19th…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Top 10 in Law Blogs: Social Media Governance, Looted Art, Apple E-Books Suit
I think I may have mentioned in the past, but Barry Barnett's publication is one of my favorite recent additions to the LexBlog Network—he writes today the second part of…
CommLaw Monitor
FCC Extends Waiver of Disabilities Access Requirements for E-Readers By a Year
By Kelley Drye
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released an order waiving the disabilities access compliance requirements for a distinct, narrow class of e-readers for an additional year – until January 28, 2016. …
Media Law Prof Blog
The Disappearing Work: Copyright Law and Availability of eBooks, Used Books, and the Market
Paul J. Heal, University of Illinois College of Law, has published How Copyright Keeps Works Disappeared at 11 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 829 (2014). Here is the abstract.A random…
Land Use Prof Blog
The common sense of self-published legal e-casebooks, or, Why on earth would anyone publish a casebook with a major legal publisher these days?
The cost of law school casebooks is truly staggering; they are almost twice what they were when I finished law school about a decade ago. Further, very few law professors are…
The Contingency
Don’t Weep for Apple . . . or Blame the DOJ
Apple settles Apple has settled up to $841 million of antitrust claims by state attorneys-general and a nationwide class of consumers who bought e-books from Apple and its publisher co-conspirators. The…
Dewey B Strategic
Breaking All The Rules on Rulebooks: Jones McClure Goes Digital with O’Connor’s Online
By Jean O'Grady
“Lawyers need an answer, not a book.” Vice President Jason Wilson Jones McClure is one of the last independent legal publishers. They were founded in 1992 to fill the need…