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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...

This cute article from Architectural Digest reminds us that you can’t find everything in eBook format.

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Brought to you by the Real Law Editorial Team Ask a hypothetical question, and you’ll get a hypothetical answer. That realization is behind a movement over the past couple of decades to adopt behavior-based interviewing for employment opportunities...

Ex-British Airways Plc cargo manager shares his story on how antitrust violations landed him in jail. (Please visit the site to view this video)

This press release featured on Marketwired highlights the global expansion of the publishers offered on the OverDrive® platform. Note: LexisNexis partners with OverDrive to provide the LexisNexis® Digital Library.

Brought to you by the Real Law Editorial Team Law has perhaps always been a data-driven business. A good attorney, librarian, or even judge can be measured by his or her ability to draw from up to thousands of potentially relevant cases and synthesize...

Brought to you by the Real Law Editorial Team Decisions, decisions. With just days to go before the 2014 mid-term elections, voters across the country are weighing important choices affecting all 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives...

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...

The role of libraries and librarians is changing from providing content in place to providing access to content through technology. To support front-line librarians, a new resource is being developed: Digital Rights Management: A Librarian’s Guide...

Brought to you by the Real Law Editorial Team Here’s a suggestion for a movie sequel. It takes its cue from the 2012 dark fantasy action film Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter , which was based on a mashup novel of the same name. This is...

This InfoToday article announces the rollout of LexisNexis® NewsDesk , a news aggregation platform featuring LexisNexis news content available on the recently acquired Morever platform. LexisNexis continues its leadership role of providing news to...

Brought to you by the Real Law Editorial Team This summer’s U.S. Supreme Court decision to uphold the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) means that there will be sweeping changes throughout the land of health care. One small...

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...

This article by Digital Book World gives a recap on the Adobe news regarding the gathering of eBook readers’ data.

Since the beginnings in the second millennium B.C., the catalogue has accompanied the history and development of our written heritage. With its complex, precise concept and structure, the catalogue represents a fundamental ambition of science and culture—to...

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...

North America Announces New Assignments Effective January 2016! (click on link below to view assignments)

Apple results released in February indicated the iPhone has overtaken Android in U.S. sales for the first time since 2012. What does the Apple-Android race mean for eBook publishers trying to calibrate their content and marketing strategies? Read this...

As an author in this new world of interactive publishing and digital delivery methods, how do you make content come alive? (Warning: spoiler alert) In the end, the author of this article by Digital Book World , came to one simple conclusion: hyperlinks...

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...

The National Conference of Bar Presidents/National Association of Bar Executives/National Conference of Bar Foundations (NCBP/NABE/NCBF) Joint Luncheon in Chicago was the platform for a keynote address by Ian McDougall, EVP and General Counsel for LexisNexis...

Brought to you by the Real Law Editorial Team “Do more with less” may be a cliché, but law firms will have to figure out how to do exactly that—fast. Continuing from last year, expenses in 2012 are likely to outstrip revenue...

Compiled by Korey Clark and the Real Law Editorial Team Last month was an extraordinary one for the U.S. Supreme Court. Rarely has the nation’s attention been so focused on the proceedings on Capitol Hill, and Justices indeed delivered three...

Don’t miss the Library Journal coverage of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., with the world’s largest collection of printed works of poet and playwright William Shakespeare. News from the Floor at this year’s American...