Legal publishers try hard to make profits, so they know better how to make the law accessible?
In reality, CanLII is just
another legal publisher trying to find its way in the world.
Legal publishers tried issuing new CD - ROMs every month, but I don't think that really caught on.
Not exact matches
Amazon has
tried to begotiate in good faith with a greedy
publishers who with their army of high - priced, shifty Wall Street lawyers continue to walk the fine line between
legal and illegal.
But one person has been working to block the approval of those terms on the grounds that the
publishers will not
try to stand up for themselves (the
publishers maintain there was no effort to bilk the public out of hundreds of millions of dollars, they quickly settled out of court to avoid what would end up costing them more in
legal fees), meaning presumably someone must step in.
Because this is a fillip, after all, where I
try to avoid earnestness most of the time at least, I'll remind you here of the delightfully silly Monty Python sketch where a
publisher has produced a mischievous Hungarian - English phrase book (for which he is brought up before the law — for those of you who need at least a minim of
legal stuff in every Slaw post).
Note of disclosure for conflict of interest: Although I
try to be agnostic in public when discussing the
legal publishers, Irwin Law has published my
legal research and writing book and I am an unabashed fan of them as a
publisher.
The ongoing changes in ownership in
legal publishing can leave customers feeling like they are the last thing the owners care about; that the product is another profitable widget from which large margins can be extracted... There was, thirty years ago, a relationship of service between
publisher to purchaser; now it is a sales person
trying to flog a title of which s / he knows little and cares less, as long as the sale is made.