I’ve always said that the law firm world is one of “Monkey See… Monkey Do.” Turns out that the big legal publisher world follows that same mantra. If you look at a cached list of Lexis Librarian Relations Consultants, you’ll see the list has six names on it that don’t appear today. Seems that Lexis
Just to prove that Thomson Reuters isn’t alone in its quest to gobble up the legal publishing market, I thought that I’d put together a list of Reed Elsevier mergers (LexisNexis’ Parent Corp.) Again, the mergers are uploaded to a Google Docs spreadsheet for anyone to download and add play with in your own
Hats off to Sarah Glassmeyer for graphing out the shrinking legal publisher market in a way that really shows how much consolidation has been going on over the past 30+ years (see the full graph). Glassmeyer lists out the three big publishers (Thomson Reuters, Reed Elsevier, and Wolters Kluwer) and show how much of
The news that Thomson Reuters announced that they are shutting down the Banks Baldwin Company seems to have flown under the radar. Last week, Thomson Reuters’ spokesman Scott Augustin announced that it will shut down the 207 year old Banks Baldwin Company and shift the work of the 132 laid off employees to New York,
My good friend, Mark Gediman told me many times that he designs his competitive intelligence (CI) reports like a children’s book. A big picture… and a little bit of text. It seems that attorneys have about the attention span of a child when it comes to reading CI reports, so this makes perfect sense to
Peter Schwartz of the Huffington Post writes in his article “The Reinvention of Legal Research: The Future is Now” about information being a commodity and how the easy availability of access to “data” is posing a new challenge to legal research giants Lexis and Westlaw. As much as I wish that Peter’s assumptions
In the latest saga of the newspaper industry’s drama, Google has announced it is NOT buying a newspaper.
Well, what a relief!
The Financial Times reports “potential targets are either too expensive or have too many liabilities.”
No! Shocking.
In my mind, Google’s daydreaming is only that: a fantasy. Plus, they really don’t want to
Time Inc. has developed a 10-week experiment called Mine that will allow subscribers to pick their content and publish it in the requested format. The magazine is free, but limited to 200,000 online subscribers and 31,000 print subscribers.
Similar to your customized Google page, your pods of information are printed in one publication.
Couldn’t you