eLangdell News!
Folks,
I know everyone's been busy getting the semester off the ground so I
wanted to take just a couple of minutes to bring you the latest news
about the CALI eLangdell project.
At AALS earlier in January we took the wraps off of a new layout for
the the eLangdell bookstore at http://elangdell.cali.org/. Now you can
quickly see what titles are available and subscribe to the new title
publication mailing list. So far in January there have been over 3600
downloads of the 9 titles currently available in the eLangdell
bookstore. In addition to those 9 titles, we have a number of other
titles including eLangdell's first full casebooks in the pipeline with
releases due later in the spring. Visit
http://elangdell.cali.org/content/coming-soon to see that list of
upcoming titles.
Today we announced that eLangdell books will be made available in
print, on demand, from lulu.com,
https://twitter.com/caliorg/status/164406467921846273. This feature
helps fulfill CALI's commitment to make eLangdell books available in
as many formats as possible. Print joins downloadable EPUB, .mobi,
PDF, and .docx formats for most eLangdell books. Currently one title
is ready to be purchased as a paperback book from Lulu. Other titles
will be added in the coming weeks. BTW, the print versions are being
sold at Lulu's cost with no markup for CALI in order to keep prices as
low as possible.
Finally, we've learned a lot about building ebooks in the past couple
of years and we'd like to share that knowledge with the community. At
CALIcon12 in San Diego we will be holding a workshop that will focus
on the nuts and bolts of building ebooks. You can watch
http://conference.cali.org/2012/sessions/diy-ebooks for details. I'm
thinking that this will be a day long workshop along the line of the
Drupal workshop we held a few years ago. Tom Boone and Sarah
Glassmeyer have already signed on as co-presenters, and if you are
doing anything with ebooks that you would like to share, just let me
know. We would love to have some more folks presenting.
Thanks,
Elmer.