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11 Wash. J. L. Tech. & Arts 1 (2015-2016)

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     WASHINGTON  JOURNAL  OF LAW, TECHNOLOGY  & ARTS
   VOLUME  11, ISSUE 1 DISRUPTIVE PUBLISHING MODELS 2015

CAN  LAW   STUDENTS   DISRUPT   THE  MARKET   FOR  HIGH-
                  PRICED  TEXTBOOKS?

                     Jane  K. Winn *
                       0 Jane K. Winn

            Cite as: 11 Wash. J.L. Tech. & Arts 1 (2015)
    http://digital.lib.washington.edu/dspace-law/handle/1773.1/1471

                        ABSTRACT

     The  Center for Computer-Assisted Legal  Instruction
  (CALI) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to
  advance legal education through technological innovation
  and collaboration. With its eLangdell Press project, CALI
  publishes American law school textbooks in open access,
  royalty-free form, offering faculty authors compensation
  equivalent to what most law school textbook authors would
  earn in royalties from a traditional full-price publisher. I
  am  writing a  new   sales textbook  and   agreements
  supplement based on contemporary business practice that
  I will publish in open access form with CALI's eLangdell
  Press. Relatively few other American  legal academics
  publish in open access form, however, suggesting that the
  market for textbooks may be locked-in to a principal-
  agent conflict between students and faculty members. If
  American law  students organized a website showing the
  textbook costs of all law faculty members   at all law
  schools, they might be able to use a naming and shaming
  strategy to overcome faculty  lock-in to high-priced
  textbooks and  increase the  adoption of  open  access
  textbooks.


    * Jane K. Winn, Charles I. Stone Professor, University of Washington
School of Law. Thanks to Sam Baldwin, John Mayer and Mary Whisner for
feedback on earlier drafts.

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