Exact Editions Blog

The heading is barely grammatical, but it is prompted by a fascinating mashup of Google Book Search and Google Maps. See here for details:

http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2007/01/books-mapped.html

I should warn you that some of the links in the Booksearch blog do not always work as required (ie there is no book-specific map), probably for arcane copyright-related reasons. But there are good maps of the places mentioned in War and Peace and Around the World in Eighty Days. At least I was … Keep Reading

We have not yet been asked to sell subscriptions to any ‘top shelf’ magazines. Our current thinking is that were we to be asked we would politely decline. Decisions of this kind are hard to justify and its very hard to demarcate any borderline of taste. There does not seem to us to be any sensible way of offering a ‘topshelf’ in a virtual magazine store, but perhaps we have not thought through the issues. The physical topshelf is handy … Keep Reading

I dont recommend it, but I am very impressed that people will try it out. Here was some interesting feedback from Philip:

Just subscribed to the Baptist Times Exact Edition. It looks good and works well on my PC, but there is one drawback. If I save the .pdf pages to view on my Palm PDA they are much too small to read. I suspect it may be because the pdf file is based on an image rather than on

Bernard Frize.

Grid-defined paintings.

Peter Zimmermann.

We now have some very strong magazines in the fields of design and visual arts.