Overview

Soft Books, s.r.o. published since 1990 czech legislation texts. We were focused on consolidated texts of Czech legal acts in the whole range. We offered both off-line (CD edition) an on-line (prepaid web service) fulltext systems. Our high-quality text database of legislation wer administered by the editors and continuously updated. History: Soft Books was founded in 1990 – it was in Prague, Czech Republic (at that time Czechoslovakia) by me - programmer Roman Plischke - as privately held company. In 1997 it was transformed in "spol. s r.o." (ie Ltd. or Plc.), 100% owned by me. From the beginning, we have been devoting ourselves to the electronic publication of legal texts. The world around us has changed, just like our products. From DOS products distributed on floppy disks through Windows and CDs to the internet; from Turbo Pascal through Visual Basic to C#, .NET and SQL Server. Likewise, the database of our consolidated texts was gradually expanding - from the first dozens of texts on a diskette to tens of thousands on CDs and web servers. I've programmed most of my products, and I've gradually mastered all levels of development. A company with several employees prospered and had several thousand regular customers. In 2017, it was already clear that this market segment is unpromising. The government was preparing a new publishing system of laws that would fully replace commercial products, and, in addition, the profitability of our main product Alfa CD was declining. That's why I decided to close the company and take the next way. So I can write (to be continued). But that's another story.