Apple's innovation relating to textbooks with iBook Author and iTune U bookshelf apps has brought out tech-foward reaction from the legal world too. According to a publishing expert, the tablet will replace the traditional case book and law textbooks with advantage in cost, interaction and mobility.
"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," Law.com reported.
Modern day law students are also excited about digitalization of law materials.
"We think that students are ready for this now. They're on the move, they're busy. The students that we talk to are very excited about digital products," Law.com cited Kristine Clerkin, general manager and vice president, legal education, at the Wolters Kluwer Law & Business division, as saying. "We really feel that in the last year or so, law professors have become increasingly interested in providing their course materials across platforms," she said. "We feel that there's lots of room for innovation in this market and for delivering our products in different ways and different formats."
But it is true that this revolution of law textbooks will not happen just overnight. Whatever the innovation is, it should get along with educational purpose. Soon, the number of law students who use the iPad might increase in the class room, but some people still prefer using the traditional case book.
But yes, the tablet will be revamped over time to be fit for digital textbooks.
