Kindle-format law books offered via nonprofit—but the discount from p-versions is just 20 percent

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By David Rothman

A nonprofit called the Practising Law Institute is offering its law books via the Kindle—see examples here.

There’s a catch. Prices will be only 20 percent less than for the print editions. The reasoning? The e-book versions will be worth more because of greater ease of linking up material. Except from the Wall Street Journal:

“The PLI said 67 of its 90 titles are now available in the Kindle format. ‘Our average book is easily over 1,000 pages, and a number are multivolume sets, so you’re talking about a lot of information,’ said William Cubberley, who oversees the PLI’s publishing program. ‘You’ll be able to carry an entire law library on your Kindle." The PLI’s publishing operations reaped $10 million in revenue last year.’”

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