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Collections of virtual books

Opening view of Reading Room Collection: Edinburgh Radical Book Fair (Carcanet)

Exact Editions offers publishers a free self-service solution for making virtual Reading Rooms of individual books: ISBN Reading Rooms. These virtual books are time-limited, and have a specific amount of free content (double page spreads that are open) set by the publisher when they upload the PDF of the title.

Exact Editions also offers publishers a paid for service Reading Rooms Pro. This commercial offering provides more … Keep Reading

Books, paper and CO2

The World’s elite arriving for COP27 — mainly on private jets

There can be no doubt that the publishing industry needs to change its product and marketing practice, rapidly, to help meet Climate Change goals. The book publishing industry is in by no means as bad a predicament as cement manufacture, road building or steel making. But as book publishers and buyers we have our problems and we need to understand the scale and the scope for rapid improvements.

The use … Keep Reading

Carcanet at a Book Fair

Carcanet’s Collection of Books for Edinburgh’s Radical Book Fair

Carcanet the Manchester-based poetry and literature publisher have used their Reading Rooms account at Exact Editions to set up a short term free virtual collection of nine books for Edinburgh’s Radical Book Fair. The books are still fully readable and browsable for a few more days from this link http://bit.ly/CarcanetERBF and I encourage you to take a look.

Carcanet’s books are always well designed and as you can see they have striking … Keep Reading

Smart ISBN’s for Poets

At the recent London Book Fair Exact Editions launched its new free publisher service: smart ISBN’s. The smart ISBNs were showcased through a collection of poetry books that was made freely available for the period of the fair: the Carcanet Caribbean Collection. 16 books by Caribbean poets from the Carcanet list. While the collection is no longer completely open, the books can be previewed as a group or individually via their smart ISBNs.

Here is a smart ISBN for … Keep Reading

Promotion and Copying

Exact Editions has been working with a group of publishers to provide a free open and temporary showcase to a selection of books relevant to the COP26 Climate Change conference taking place this Autumn in Glasgow. The showcase has not yet been completely assembled and is still to a considerable degree ‘under wraps’. Exact Editions, the contributing publishers and others will be making appropriate announcements and press releases in September. We occasionally encounter concerns about the suitability of using the … Keep Reading

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