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Yesterday we posted a story about a university in Thailand adopting a digital library platform. Today we posted a story about how the ABA has found that 90 percent of American libraries offer eBooks . As further evidence of the growing use of digital...

iPads are still king of the tablet market, but they are perhaps not as ubiquitous as they used to be. And, they're not the same as an iPhone or other smart phones. An article by eWeek reviews why Apple sales of iPads may be waning and, in the process...

The headline from this post at Above the Law says it all. Lawyer Megan Grandinetti writes about strategies for not letting your mobile phone, smartphone, tablet or device-of-choice rule your life.

iPhones are obviously among the most used smart phones, including by lawyers. Law Technology News has a story reviewing five tips for lawyers to get the most out of those devices.

Here's an article from GoodEReader about a budding legal issue associated with electronic books - consumer protection. Who "owns" an eBook? Who can legally sell or re-sell it? Who decides when a license for an eBook has been violated...

iPhones, iPads, smart phones, smart watches, tablet PCs...they're all great. But perhaps not when it comes to reading electronic books. There are differences between those devices and a true eReader device. GoodEReader reviews those differences...

Lawyer Librarian Knowledge Strategist and blogger, Jean O'Grady, re-caps highlight results of the recently published American Lawyer Media 2014 Law Librarian Survey in a post to her blog, Dewey B Strategic . Among points she reports from the survey...

Law Technology News reviews the new Lenovo ThinkPad 8 with lawyer use in mind.

LexisNexis® Legal & Professional announced today that it has been named official publisher of the Massachusetts Reports, the Commonwealth's authoritative body of appellate decisions, including all opinions of the Supreme Judicial Court and...

More and more reading we do today is from a screen, and increasingly those screens are on smart phones or tablets. Another thing that changes is peoples' eyesight. Over time, we all experience some degree of change in our eyesight. A story today...

The ABA recently conducted the 2014 Legal Technology Survey Report . One finding was that half of all firms allow access to firm networks from personal mobile devices. Perhaps interesting too is the finding that nearly 1/3 of firms allow access to their...

Amazon recently released its first smart phone, the Amazon Fire. ZDNet reviews the pros and cons of the device in their article HERE . As more smart phone options come onto the market - new iPhones, the Firefox Flame, Android phone updates, etc...

While digital libraries and electronic text continues to grow in importance, prevalence and scope in the reading world generally and in professions such as the law, there is also a public good performed when historical texts are digitized and made available...

As "bring your own device" becomes a more and more adopted approach to connecting lawyers with information, which devices are coming and which are going may be worth keeping track of as different units often support different eBook formats....

GoodEReader has published key findings from the 2014 Digital Publishing Survey . While this survey covers the whole publishing industry rather than just the legal marketplace, there are some interesting findings to note, such as: 84% of all publishers...

The Book Industry Study Group has released the results of its fourth annual Student Attitudes Toward Content in Higher Education survey and its third annual Faculty Attitudes Toward Content in Higher Education. Among findings of the student survey...

Overdrive has introduced automatic borrowing and hold suppression features to their digital library solution. Both features are designed to speed delivery of eBook titles. Read the story in Information Today HERE and see the news announcement from...

A recent survey of college students conducted by CampusBooks.com revealed a number of interesting findings. Depending on how you look at the results, one could infer either that eBooks are not yet a majority of titles used by students and students like...

As eBooks become more prevalent and in-demand, how they are offered, at what price and the related implications for authors, publishers and retailers are all worth tracking for a better understanding of how the marketplace is developing broadly and how...

Samsung and Barnes & Noble have created a new tablet called the Galaxy Tab 4 Nook. It will be unveiled Aug. 20, but The eBook Reader has an article about the device HERE .

OverDrive, a leader in digital library and "e-lending" technology, recently announced the launch of "National Read an eBook Day." Occurring on Sept. 18, 2014, the idea of the day is to "celebrate and raise awareness" of reading...

GoodEReader provides some info on what the next version of the iPad may include in their recent story - particularly the possibility of an anti-reflective coating. Surely this would be useful for most iPad users. What about lawyers?

Predictions of the demise of print books, the rise of eBooks as a "disruptive" force and ultimately dominance of electronic titles have been made for some time. The online publication Inside Higher Ed provides a perspective on if, when or...

Lawyers and legal professionals are busy people! Smartphone apps can help them save time and practice more efficiently. Law Technology News runs down six new iPhone apps that do just that. Check out their story HERE .

How university students get and use books - print or eBooks - is evolving. Gone are the days of simply and only buying them at the university book store or second-hand shops. Increasingly, students are using - and professors are assigning - eBooks...