A paperback part is a small booklet attached to the back of a legal text that provides updates since the original publication. It was created to avoid the impractical process of producing updated texts with minor changes. Technological advances have made it obsolete as publishers can maintain up-to-date databases online.
A paperback part is an addendum sent by a legal text publisher that updates the information contained in a particular book. The nature of the law is that it is constantly changing; facts contained in a legal text may become obsolete soon after publication. Instead of issuing entire print runs of new books with a few minor changes, publishers send out small packages to attach to the back of the corresponding book so the reader can access the most up-to-date information. The paperback portion is typically attached to the inside back cover of the book, making it easily apparent to all readers of the book. The emergence of computers and the Internet has made paperback parts obsolete for the most part as publishers can simply maintain an up-to-date database online rather than continually mailing updates.
Coming in the form of a small booklet, a paperback part is attached to the back of a legal text. This is usually not very often as it contains the small updates that have occurred since the publication of the original text. The reader typically researches the law contained in the original published version of the book, then consults the paperback portion to see if there have been any updates since the original publication of the book. This provides the most up-to-date information for the reader.
Paperback parts have been produced as long as there has been mass production of legal texts. Publishers first got the idea after seeing that new legislation may make the information in the legal book obsolete. The reliability of the information published in these texts was incredibly important to the publishers, as their clientele consisted mainly of legal professionals who used them as a basis for their practice. Publishers realized they could go through the impractical process of continually producing updated text with minor changes or find another, less expensive and more practical method of updating information. This is why the pocket part was created.
Technological advances have made information infinitely more accessible than it was in the days when the idea for the pocket part was conceived. Contemporary writers of legal texts typically maintain all of their information in various databases on the Internet. This has the dual effect of making information more accessible to legal professionals and easier for the publisher to update as lawmakers push through changes to various laws.
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