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eBooks: upping the game

14 April 2011 / Cara Annett
Issue: 7461 + 7462 / Categories: Features , Profession , Technology
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Instant, essential resourses on tap. Cara Annett explains the beauty of eBooks

LexisNexis has made its legal and tax information available digitally for over a decade, most notably through the platforms LexisLibrary and TolleyLibrary.
Since 2008 LexisNexis has conducted two pilots and over 40 customer interviews to understand what eBooks can offer lawyers and tax professionals. This culminated in last year’s launch of LexisNexis’ eBooks program, which saw 24 practitioner textbooks published in epub format. A further 40 titles are planned for 2011.

Suits all sizes

Initially the eBooks team was interested in how LexisNexis could offer small and sole practitioners instant access to individual textbooks. We understood that, for many of these customers, subscriptions to online databases could be unattainable and they relied heavily on hard copy.

As we progressed with the research, however, we sensed that a small but significant number of customers across all size firms needed core reference materials in a digital format, but were unable to rely fully on internet access due to being:

  • in court;
  • at
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