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- From: srm@world.std.com (Stevens R Miller)
- Subject: Re: Law books in electronic form?
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- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 00:44:05 GMT
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- bhayden@teal.csn.org (Bruce Hayden) writes:
-
- >I have never seen West books on CD-ROM. Indeed, for several reasons
- >I question how willing West would be to put their info in so easily
- >a copyable medium. Also, note how user friendly West has made WestLaw.
- >At the final analysis, West is a book publisher, anything that
- >takes away from book sales is apparently suspect.
-
- West offers the New York Supplement, 2d, on CD-ROM, including the
- famous key numbers and digests. A similar product is offered on
- CD-ROM by Law Desk. They cover New York reports and a few other
- states. They will have New York statutes this year. I don't know
- if the data is plain text or not, but Law Desk's rep would only
- promise me that their own software can read it, and it supports a
- cut-and-paste feature, so I wouldn't be surprised if it's encoded
- to avoid bootlegging.
-
- Both products are advertised in the November New York State Bar
- Journal.
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- Stevens R. Miller J.D.
-