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The Catholic Herald

The UK has a postal strike and The Catholic Herald has made this week’s issue temporarily available as a free trial issue. This is your chance to sample their tricky crossword before it withdraws behind the pay-wall next Saturday.

Just to get you started, 14 down, Africa’s oldest republic (1847), has to be ‘Liberia’?

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Radiohead and the Future of Print

OK, I know that is a mildly ridiculous headline. But hear me out. The Oxford-based band Radiohead have made a move which is giving the music industry the jitters. Radiohead are launching a new album without the help of the majors and they are asking their fans to pay what they want to pay for it (“its up to you”) if they download the music digitally. They are also selling an expensive package of physical goods CD/DVD vinyl disks … Keep Reading

Pdfs, downloads and reading a magazine on the plane

“Exact Editions is great, but why not offer a downloadable version of the magazine, like a PDF?” This seems like a very reasonable request and its one of our more frequent themes in customer support. Here are some of the reasons we do not offer a PDF or issue-download solution:

  1. If we were to offer this our publishers would reasonably insist on some sort of DRM solution. We do not think DRM (so called ‘Digital Rights Management’ software) is a
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Le Monde Diplomatique

Is the first title in our French Shop/Kiosque Francaise. And here is the opening of the first article in the free trial issue:

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A very big step for Exact Editions

You may not notice our big change of today, when you go to our home page its pretty much as usual:

http://www.exacteditions.com/exact/browseEditions.do

The new feature is a tiny link at the top right to French shop.

http://www.exacteditions.com/exact/login.do?username=shop.fr

Pas grand chose, you may say. But its a big step for us. Maybe several big steps. We now have a generalisable shopping system and can cope with shopping in different currencies. We have an interface and tooltips that can be … Keep Reading

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