Electronic tablets will make paper books in law schools obsolete within a decade, publishing experts said this week, in reaction to Apple’s recent entrance into the textbook market and Thomson Reuters’ exit from it.
From entrenched businesses, such as Wolters Kluwer, to a nonprofit, like the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction, there is agreement that physical textbooks and particularly traditional case books will, sooner or later, become educational relics alongside fountain pens and manual typewriters. Electronic tablets have the advantage in cost, interaction, size, and utility, the technology’s advocates note.
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