Using an e-book, Fastcase can load up published and unpublished cases without concern for the weight of the paper.

Fastcase recently announced a new product to give lawyers their first look at judicial opinions in e-book format — free and licensed under the Creative Commons BY-SA license. Fastcase Advance Sheets are the first of five Fastcase e-book products planned for release this year, all aimed at disrupting the traditional market for law books. In the legal publishing business, free is tantamount to disruption.