Cyberlaw Book - Prepublication Readers

Prepublication reading of Book: Cyberlaw

Law for Digital Spaces and for Information Systems

By John Bandler

This page is for pre-publication readers (and is not indexed).

I am working on this book now -- it will be my next book.

If you are reading this page, it is probably because I asked if you were interested in reading it and providing feedback before I publish it.

Here's some basic information.

Read as much of it as you like, or as little.
Do as much or as little as you have time for
Provide feedback on whatever area you like, to whatever level of detail or generality.
The best way to provide feedback is usually with tracked changes within the Word document, or comments within the Word document. But any method works.
Don't change the filename much, because consistent filenames help me sort them and know the version date. You can add your initials at the end of the filename (but it's fine if you don't).
Value for me:
- Any correction or suggestion that makes it better, corrects a mistake, helps it land better with the audience helps the book
- Every reader has the ability to make the book better in some way
- A law related correction or addition
- Spelling, grammar, readability, repetitiveness, clarity
- Citation consistency or accuracy
- Some other feedback
Value for you
- Reading "like an editor" can help us focus
- Readers can learn about law, cyberlaw, and writing.

The deadlines and current stage and limits

I aim to publish this in early December. That's coming really soon.
If you wait a while and then decide to dig into it, check back with me for a current version.
There is a practical size and word count limit. The book is a mile wide and an inch deep. In other words, I can't build out another X hundred or X thousand words in an area.

Book description and layout:

See the book
See chapter 1 that explains it
See my main book landing page
I am already down a path of format and organization. It may be a little unique. Feel free to suggest anything and everything, including for next book and next edition. Just know this book this needs to come together soon.
This book

The book is for:

College students (undergraduate) learning cyberlaw
Graduate students in information systems, learning cyberlaw
Maybe law school students in cyberlaw but only as a simple initial layer. The introductory law portions would need to be covered quickly, and other areas would need to be supplemented by more in-depth exploration or activity, such as of statutes and cases.
Anyone interested in cyberlaw
See other information about the book on my other book pages (see bottom).

Book citation format

I am using a hybrid book citation format, designed to be clear and convenient for the layperson reader. It needs to be consistent and helpful. It will not rigidly track Bluebook, or ALA, or Chicago Manual of Style, etc.

Acknowledgements

If you devote time to reading and providing feedback, as a favor to me, I will generally be more than willing to acknowledge your help.

Then it will be your decision as to whether you want to be acknowledged or not, in places such as (i) the book (printed for all time) (ii) the website (more changeable) and/or (iii) a social media post. I will check with you before I name you (I know that some would prefer not to be named, for a variety of reasons).

If you are reading and offering feedback as an extra credit option in a class, I do not intend to acknowledge individual students who participate. The granting of extra credit and the learning value is the benefit.

Extra credit in school?

If a student is reading the book to earn extra credit in a course I teach, the main principles above apply, but acknowledgements will probably not be granted, and you will also need to provide a reflection and a time estimate. See those instructions.

Side note: I am still evaluating whether offering this as an extra credit option is a good idea.

Links

Originally posted 10/2/2024. Updated 10/16/2024.