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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...

Brought to you by the Real Law Editorial Team With a hundred or so empty pop cans, you can comfortably heat a small building. Perforated and sealed end-to-end, those cans become a manifold inside a wood or metal frame with a clear panel sealed on...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 .

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...

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?

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...

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 .

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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....

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...

Brought to you by the Real Law Editorial Team Mobile devices have changed the way the world works. Business is no longer conducted exclusively in boardrooms and offices; it happens everywhere and at any time. This shift is especially apparent among...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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