From Profs. Lydia Loren and Joe Miller (both of Lewis & Clark Law School), a pay-what-you-feel casebook on intellectual property. According to Prof. Loren:<\/p>\n
Joe Miller and I have written a new IP Survey book and we are looking for some \u201cbeta testers\u201d to try it out next semester. The book is entirely in digital form. If a student would like a hard copy they are free to print out the book or any part of it. Also, there is a full digital statutory supplement that comes with the book \u2013 at no extra charge to the students. You can view a table of contents online<\/a>.<\/p>\n
We are offering this book through a new publishing company that we started, called Semaphore Press, using a \u201cradiohead\u201d distribution model: students are given a suggested price of $30 for the book, but can elect to pay something different (more or less). They can even not pay anything by clicking on the \u201cFreeride\u201d button. You can read more about the publishing company and its philosophy at
\nhttp:\/\/www.semaphorepress.com\/<\/a> As a professor interested in reviewing the book, you can always click on the \u201cfreeride\u201d button at the bottom of the payment page to take a look at the entire book (or any part).<\/p>\nProf. Miller is using this book this fall at the University of Georgia and I\u2019m using it at Lewis & Clark (in two separate sections). We have found that students like the flexibility that the digital format offers. One student even prepared audio files of the different chapters so that he could listen to the book while commuting. And, we also found that students appreciate the reasonable pricing of the book, with a majority of them opting to pay the suggested price.<\/p>\n
Let us know if you are interested in adopting this book. While neither you nor your school\u2019s bookstore needs to \u201corder\u201d anything from us, we would like to know who is adopting the book so we can continue to evaluate the book, the distribution model, and in general seek feedback from the beta testers! We also have a survey that we would appreciate having students complete at the end of the term. We are also happy to share our power point files and syllabi.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n