A number of commercial vendors participated in the discussions by the Sub-committee and provided valuable input and expertise. The judicial council shared with us some of the concerns and comments raised by judges. Others Comments were also solicited from law librarians, and lawyers and organizations in other jurisdictions, both personally, and through the Internet. The Internet is a massive combination of computer networks. The Internet makes available to a person connected to the network the information resources of other computers on the network.
Individual users can access the information base by dial-in connections.
Where the material is already in electronic format and no search engine is included, CD-Roms are very cheap to produce. The cost of the paper alone for the printed material was an order of magnitude larger than the CD-Rom cost. In actual publishing, of course, there are many costs above and beyond that of physical production. Indexing, presentation, headnotes, search engines, sales, support, etc would all add costs. Because it takes time and effort to learn to use a given search engine, publishers see the search engine as a device to attach the lawyer to a certain publishers' products.