Volokh’s great series on ebooks, legal texts, & the future.

If you haven’t had a chance to read Eugene Volokh’s terrific series of posts on the future of electronic books and the law (plus the comments), you should make some time in your schedule to do so. I’ve been digesting them for the past couple of weeks and am cranking through a response, from the publisher’s perspective, of course. He’s spent a great deal of time thinking about the issue, and this is the best collection of posts on the topic I have yet to find on the web so far. For ease of reference, here are the links in order:

1.  “The Future of Books Related to the Law?”

2. Why Legal Books Are Likely To Go Electronic (Pretty Soon)

3. What Manufacturers and Publishers Need To Do To Facilitate The Move To Electronic Delivery of Legal Books — Lifting Technological Barriers

4. What Manufacturers and Publishers Need To Do To Facilitate The Move To Electronic Delivery of Legal Books — Reducing Costs to Compete With Used Books

5. What Manufacturers and Publishers Need To Do To Facilitate The Move To Electronic Delivery of Legal Books — Competing with Library Lending

6. How E-Readers Can Change the Content of Legal Books

7. E-Readers, and Going Beyond the Current Publication System for Scholarly Law Books

8. Could the Advent of E-Readers Lead Law Journals to Move Into E-Book Publishing?

9. How Might the Advent of E-Readers Affect the Creations and Distribution of Legal Textbooks?