Legal Research

Oxford Law Dictionary Now for iPhone

By Simon Fodden

White Park Bay, a company that seems to specialize in porting Oxford University Press books to the iPhone, has published a number of OUPs technical dictionaries as iPhone apps, among them the Oxford Dictionary of Law. (This link will take you to it in the app store on your iTunes.) The dictionary sells for CD14.99 (who’s kidding whom with this penny less pricing?). You will note that while rich for an iTunes app, many of which sell at just under a dollar, it’s a whole lot cheaper than the Black’s Law Dictionary, which sells for CD50 (with a penny back, just for fun). It is, of course, a whole lot slimmer than the Black’s: 600 pages, or so vs. about 2000.

No word yet that I could find as to when it might be available for BlackBerry.

An afterword on how not to manage your websites: White Park Bay has a website at whiteparkbay.com, sensibly enough. But when you get there you get a few graphics, a bit of text and not one single link to information; there is, however, a notice that a (real?) website will be coming soon. Way to build a discouraging dead end, folks!

Now to OUP, where there is not a single mention of White Park Bay or any of OUPs iPhone apps. A search on their site for iPhone comes up dry and the latest news item was posted a week ago, before the launch of their iPhone dictionaries. Way to be late for your own future, folks!

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on June 23, 2009 (boomark / email).