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Learning how to create ebooks is neither an easy process nor a cheap one. Determining what kind of production knowledge best suits your goals can be a helpful point of departure, even if you aren’t considering a career as an ebook developer. Whether...

Brought to you by the Real Law Editorial Team “Location, location, location.” That familiar mantra is usually associated with real estate agents, but those in the legal profession could just as easily claim it. Choice of venue, when...

For a book-lover, having one book is never as good as having two. Bibliophiles the world over know the conundrum of how to feed their addiction without having to move into a house of epic proportions or rent an environmentally controlled storage space...

Libraries have long been community gathering spaces where all members of society can gather around the pursuit of knowledge or the entertainment of a good read. But the outmoded function of the library as a giant warehouse for physical books means that...

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...

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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...

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...

The New York Times has just unveiled a brand new program called Digital Day Passes. The day pass will will grant access to the publication’s website and apps for the day to anyone that buys the print edition of the newspaper. The company describes...

The integration is licensed through Handshake Software and enables firm attorneys and law librarians to review and check out eBook titles via SharePoint, and gives them greater efficiency by contextualizing their subscription to LexisNexis Digital Library...

It's safe to say that e-books disrupted the publishing industry. But sales have leveled off and not entirely for the reasons some have reported. Listen to the story or read the full transcript from NPR here .

Brought to you by the Real Law Editorial Team Marshall McLuhan’s profound observation that “the medium is the message” is often misunderstood. It is assumed the 20th-century communications theorist meant that channels of mass media...

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...

Brought to you by the Real Law Editorial Team Where energy prices are going in 2015 is anyone’s guess. According to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. , Barclays and the Tokyo-based Marubeni Corp. , for example, the price of crude oil could soon plummet...

While this Wired article headline suggests that some forms of publishing are over, it actually reminds us that we are still in the infancy stages of digital publishing. In fact, we have recently launched a few digital magazines or journals – Pratt’s...

Brought to you by the Real Law Editorial Team Land is more than a precious commodity. It feeds us. It protects us. It gives us hope, a feeling of being rooted in the here and now, and a sense of the possibilities in whatever lies ahead. Indeed...

LexisNexis recently released a series of new jurisdictional and practice area pages. Each of the major legal publishers is responding to the legal market demand for new products and platforms which drive efficiency and streamline lawyer workflow. Unlike...

Over the course of 2015 there has been a number of notable new e-readers that have hit the market. With so many models to choose from, what features is the average customer looking for? Two weeks ago Good E Reader asked the question What do you look for...

A special highlight of this year’s International Bar Association Annual Conference in Rome, attended by more than 6,500 lawyers from over 100 countries, was the keynote address by LexisNexis Executive Vice President and General Counsel Ian McDougall...

Brought to you by the Real Law Editorial Team In a recent article, The Huffington Post challenged its readers with a simple test. It consisted of viewing three videos on YouTube. “Watch these,” wrote Morra Aarons-Mele , founder of Women...

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...

Check out this post by Maddie Crum for The Huffington Post with some interesting findings on the 'eBook vs. Print' debate from various studies. Try not to multitask while reading onscreen …

Brought to you by the Real Law Editorial Team Technology is changing the role of law librarians. That reality recently prompted LexisNexis to hold a Twitter contest asking law librarians 10 questions about their profession for the chance to win...

The Marketing Review policy in the LexisNexis policies on People Hub does * not * make a distinction between the types of materials that require legal review based on their internal or external nature. That policy treats both internal and external materials...