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A brand new public university in Florida has dispensed with the whole notion of a traditional library and has instead instituted a 100 percent digital library. Is this the future? Check out the story by The Library Journal and see how they have set...

eBooks can benefit lawyers and law firms in more ways than simply being resources to read while preparing for a case or boning up on a key area of practice. Indeed, as an author, eBooks can offer the lawyer or firm greater visibility, positioning as...

As expected, Barnes & Noble and Samsung have formally introduced a new, co-branded tablet called the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook. It replaces the Barnes & Noble Nook. The news was reported by the Associated Press and carried by ABC News on their...

The utility of mobile devices for legal professionals is impressive. The ability to manage tasks, conduct research, read news...and certainly get and read legal eBook...are just the beginning. It's a big reason why mobility is being adopted quickly...

While not specifically related to the practice of law, visitors to LexisNexis Legal Content Insider may be interested to know that "The Harvard Classics" compilation of literary works is now available in eBook format...for free. Learn more...

Copyright for books and their electronic versions is an emerging legal issue and one to keep an eye on as digital libraries proliferate across the country and world. In particular, copyright infringement (or fair use) of titles scanned and used in public...

Need to bone up on new copyright laws while on vacation at the beach? Studying for law school at the pool? Reading legal news in the rain? Not to worry. Kobo has just come out with a new eBook reader that features enough water protection that...

"Wearables" are coming...or are they already here? Law Technology News reports that an estimated 90 million wearable mobile devices will make there way into our lives in 2014. Are there a uses for this technology for lawyers? Other legal...

Mobile device forum Mobile Read has an interesting discussion on a recent Forrester report that says that while 25 million Americans own eReaders, that number is expected to decline to seven million by 2017. Among reasons why this may be is the proliferation...

It's been just over a month since Amazon launched its new Fire smartphone. Drawing on several sources of information, the team at GoodEReader concludes that the new device has received a less than stellar welcome by consumers. Check out their...

The Guardian newspaper in the UK has an interesting article reviewing the pros and cons of digitizing books and offering them via a digital library. While the article discusses digital libraries broadly, the underpinning issues appear to be relevant...

In a book about his championship Lakers teams, basketball guru Pat Riley explained the difficulty of winning back-to-back championships by calling it the “Disease of More.” This is descriptive of the tendency of individuals on a successful...

The tremendous growth of eBook sales has leveled off in recent years, leaving publishers and retailers struggling to find the next frontier in eBooks. Last year Amazon and Hachette had a protracted public dispute over which party would set eBook pricing...

Digital rights management (DRM) is designed to prevent eBook customers from using digital technology beyond what a bookseller or mobile device manufacturer intended. It also protects from piracy the considerable investment of time and money that both...

As the line between editorial and advertorial continues to blur, so does the public’s confidence in content from publications versus brands as evidenced by new industry research. It revealed that only 2% more consumers trust content from publications...

Recently, the New York Times published an article about the transformation of Kaye Scholer law library from print to digital. Two points shocked the law library community. 1)The author was surprised that law libraries were going digital. 2)The author...

As law librarians know, the library industry has been transitioning toward a primarily digital existence. A profession centered on managing a physical collection has shifted toward managing digital resources. Librarianship has a crisis of perception because...

About a year ago, you could place a pod of ready- to-brew coffee into a Keurig machine, press the ‘go’ button and be sure of a steaming cup in seconds. However, early last summer Keurig employed an anti-counterfeiting system to add Digital...

Organizations and universities alike have been banding together to prevent important-yet-dated documents from disappearing entirely online. Digital preservation is a big problem, and it’s one that associations—with their significant content...

The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest cultural institution, and the largest library in the world. Its mission is broad, everything from providing research to members of Congress, to administering copyright laws, to maintaining a collection...

ASCENT –Center for Technical Knowledge is now providing an unrivalled educational experience to self-paced or classroom learners. It is producing video enhanced eBooks by incorporating content provided by 4D Technologies (developers of the industry...

When a new e-reader is released people normally don’t upgrade to the latest and greatest every year. Certainly e-paper technology does not improve at the breakneck speed that smartphones and tablets do. e-Readers are one of those things that receive...

A new agreement announced ahead of this year’s London Book Fair just made the world of international publishing a little bit smaller. eBook distributor and discoverability platform Trajectory has inked a deal with the third largest smartphone producer...

In 2013, Oyster launched one of the first eBook rental services, offering subscribers a subscription that covered all they could read for $10 a month. Now Oysters plans to expand in a surprising direction—eBook sales. They will offer virtually every...

If the book is dead, nobody bothered to tell the folks at Capitol Hill Books in Washington, D.C. Books of every size, shape and genre occupy each square inch of the converted row house — including the bathroom — all arranged in an order discernible...