Law publisher angers law students by breaking law » MobyLives

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-05-23

Summary:

"If you’re an academic publisher and you want to sell textbooks under a plan that violates the first sale doctrine (which guarantees that books, once bought by a consumer, can be resold, as well as loaned, rented, and given away), the number one wrong group of people to try and sell them to are law students. Legal publisher Aspen Law, part of academic publishing giant Wolters Kluwer, learned this lesson recently, much—one imagines—to their well-deserved chagrin. As Ian Chant describes in an article for Library Journal, during the first week of May, Aspen Law debuted a new purchasing plan, called CasebookConnect, for its Aspen Casebook series, a plan that bundled print and electronic editions together for the original price of the print book. But, and it’s a big but, they told buyers that once the course was over, they’d have to return the physical book. In return, they’d retain “lifetime” access to the electronic version, as if that were not a bonkers promise in the digital age."

Link:

http://www.mhpbooks.com/law-publisher-angers-law-students-by-breaking-law/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.copyright oa.licensing oa.first_sale oa.publishers oa.aspen oa.business_models oa.policies oa.students oa.law oa.libre

Date tagged:

05/23/2014, 16:10

Date published:

05/23/2014, 12:10