Self-Publishing an Electronic Casebook Benefited Our Readers -- And Us

Goldman, Eric; Tushnet, Rebecca

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Self-Publishing an Electronic Casebook Benefited Our Readers -- And Us

Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts, Vol. 11, No. 49, 2015

Santa Clara Univ. Legal Studies Research Paper No. 21-15

15 Pages Posted: 19 Sep 2015 Last revised: 7 Dec 2015

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Self-publishing our electronic casebook, Advertising and Marketing Law: Cases & Materials, wasn’t some grand ambition to disrupt legal publishing. Our goal was more modest: we wanted to make available materials for a course we strongly believe should be widely taught in law school. Electronic self-publishing advanced that goal in two key ways. First, it allowed us to keep the price of the materials low. Second, we bypassed gatekeepers who may have degraded the casebook’s content and slowed the growth of an advertising law professors’ community.

Keywords: casebook, ebook, advertising, marketing, law, self-publishing, textbook

JEL Classification: L82, K2, I21, A2

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Goldman, Eric and Tushnet, Rebecca, Self-Publishing an Electronic Casebook Benefited Our Readers -- And Us (2015). Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts, Vol. 11, No. 49, 2015, Santa Clara Univ. Legal Studies Research Paper No. 21-15, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2662297