Valuable yes, fun, maybe. But like all things, the answer is because money.
You could hope, but you'd be wrong. Editorial staffs aren't going to retooled to fix what's currently wrong with large treatise sets. They will still update them, but there won't be fundamental restructuring of the works to accommodate modern research practices.
This statement you made in the piece from 2011 is still very much true today:
"I just have the impression that for many customers in the middle, perhaps the most important segments, not a great deal of effort is or can be spent, effectively, in reaching them and retaining their business. Perhaps this explains some of the difficulties in growing professional publishing businesses."
As you observe, effective marketing perhaps explains some of the reason big publishing focuses so heavily on big law. Thanks for reminding me of the post.
Even though they've become "solutions providers", they still control the largest collection of secondary sources in the country, and the predictions that law blogs and other firm-generated material (open source) would slowly take their place has not come to fruition. So how to combat entropy? One way is as you suggest, stick parts of it into the "workflow", where it seems to make sense. As alluded in the post, that only really works if editors are retooling the content for the task, not the machines.
Ha, ha. Something I didn\'t really pay attention to, but true.
I don\'t actually think any lawyers are really \"on\" Vine yet. Some have accounts, but haven\'t posted. :-)
You haven't missed the details yet, but we're taking a rather interesting direction with it. Details will follow soon. As for the integration of the research tool, the only thing I can think is that you have to have it if you have a practice management platform. That's where the lawyer is, so make access easier. But conceptually, the two are completely different. Now utilizing WestSearch on the practice management side makes sense, but then I start wondering if its too powerful of a system for such a tiny amount of data. I don't know, I need to play around with everything first before I get a good sense one way or the other.
What you may consider "news" might not be the same thing. TR's announcement that they were moving to the cloud fell flat even though it clearly felt like a big announcement. And for them it was because it was a big internal shift. The same goes for product alignment across the entire Thomson Reuters family. Getting everyone on board with the idea of blending product streams into digital dashboards, etc. isn't an easy task because everyone values their information and services differently (mine's better than yours).
Well, you see those acquisitions, but they still don't tell you the entire product line story. The large law firm segment has a ton of products under their umbrella.
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