Transcript CALI Kindle 2009 liebert

Kindle for Law Schools
June Liebert
CALI Conference, 2009
Benefits
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Massive storage
Light-weight, thin
Instant download
Font size
Long battery-life
Free sample downloads
7,000 free ebooks
Daily news via RSS or newspaper
subscriptions (or via browser)
• Ebook price = $9.99 (for most titles)
Drawbacks
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Errors in digital text
Tables of content/indexes
No folders or labels
Non-standard format
Can’t read books from other ebook vendors
Can’t share/sell purchased ebooks
Not fully tied into Amazon.com features
Plain content – one typeface, few images
Possible Uses Today
• Upload school-created content
– Library or IT educational guides
– Self-guided tours and documents for prospective
students
– Library Kindle checkout
• Load each Kindle with specific subject titles
• Study aids (Nutshells, hornbooks, treatises, popular
monographs, etc.) as they become available
• For Students
– Class notes
– Assigned articles/readings
– Scanned pages from personally owned textbook
• Copyright implications…
More Features
• Web browser
• MP3 player
• Uploading documents
– Mobipocket Creator
• Picture viewer
• Easter eggs
- Minesweeper (Alt-M)
- Screenshot (Alt-Shift-G)
- Display time (Alt-T or Menu)
Sample
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Pieces of the puzzle
1. Tools
– Dedicated device
– Ebook reader software
2. Content
– Format standards
– Author/Publishers
– Quality control/editing
3. Access
– Direct sales
– Bookstores/aggregators
@ Law Schools?
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Cost of additional devices/software
Space/weight, compare to print
Functionality (highlighting, notations, interface)
Ease of use
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Electronic coursebooks, pagination issues
Secondary and primary materials (supplements)
Coursepacks (copyright, licensing)
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Download through Amazon and other ebook
retailers
Download directly from publishers
eTextbook Study
• From Make Textbooks Affordable (Aug. 2008)
– http://www.maketextbooksaffordable.org/newsroom
.asp?id2=44596
• 504 students - Portland State, City Colleges of Chicago
• Existing e-textbooks failed to be:
– Accessible: can’t download copy for use anytime
or future reference
– Affordable: no resale possible, more expensive
than used print textbook
– Printable: most limit printing to 10 pages, 75% of
students preferred print
Open Textbooks
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Recommended by eTextbook study
Distributed under a free license
Easy and inexpensive to print
Faculty should use open textbooks
Institutions should provide incentives
to faculty authors and pool resources
Aspen’s eBooks
• Aspen’s TeachingLaw.com
– Interactive coursebook platform
– Diana Donahoe’s article:
http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1188550
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• AspenLaw Studydesk
– Organize briefs, notes, statutes, etc. Uses
templates and systematic filing tools
– eBook study aids: Casenote Legal Briefs, Emanuel Law
Outlines, Law in a Flash cards, Examples & Explanations
– Flashcard, quiz, and outlining tools. Legal concepts
index
Legal Coursebooks
• Future of the Legal Coursebook Workshop
– Agenda (Sept. 2008, Seattle University)
http://www.law.seattleu.edu/Faculty/Workshop_on_
the_Future_of_the_Legal_Coursebook.xml
– Recordings available online at
http://lsi.typepad.com/lsi/electronic_education/
– Chronice of Higher Educ. article
http://chronicle.com/free/2008/10/4824n.htm
• Legal education commons from CALI
– Shared legal education materials including syllabi,
podcasts, presentations, and more
– http://w.cali.org/lec
– Creative Commons license
Gene’s View
• Gene Koo – three shortcomings of the
Kindle
– Screen too small
– Hard to annotate
– Monotone highlighting
• From his blog post: “Kindle won't catch fire in law
schools,” December 20, 2007
http://lsi.typepad.com/lsi/2007/12/kindle-wont-cat.html
Sony Readers
• $270-400, SD & Mem. stick, PDFs, plus TXT, RTF,
BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, MS Word, MP3 and AAC files,
ebookstore.sony.com (400,000 titles, Google)
Netlibrary
• Sony Reader Mobile Collections
• $500-$1000, includes Sony reader
Subject Area
Title Count
Mobile
Collection
Career Development &
Business Self-Help
31
$1,000
Management &
Leadership
23
$1,000
Young Adult Fiction
24
$500
Romance
19
$500
29
$1,000
Popular Fiction
Others
Fujitsu FLEPia Color Reader
• $1000, 8” XGA touchscreen, bluetooth, WiFi, SD card,
PDF, TXT, HTML, Word, Excel and PowerPoint files,
XMDF, image files, Japan only
Plastic Logic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa
QHDxOxVhs&feature=fvw
Electronic Ink (EInk)
•http://www.eink.com/technology/howitworks.html
•Reflective technology which requires no front or backlight
•Uses negatively and positively charged particles
Pixel Qi Display
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Switch LCD backlight on/off
Black and white display w/out backlight
Viewable in full-daylight
Uses ½ to ¼ the power of normal LCD
screen
• Available late 2009
• Video Demo online:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/03/video-pixel-qis-e-inklcd-hybrid-screen-demoed-at-computex/
Apple iPad?
Rumored Kindle killer?
Google
• Announced new ebook storefront
• http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/technology/intern
et/01google.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss
• Allow publishers to set list prices
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Content remains entirely online
Viewable via web browser
Device agnostic
Viewable offline in cache
Available at the end of 2009
More Kindle Information
• My De.licio.us Kindle tag
– http://delicious.com/jmls/kindle
• Books about the Kindle
– Kindle 2 Cookbook
– The Complete User’s Guide to the
Amazing Amazon Kindle 2
– Kindle User’s Guide (free)