Celera was the company founded by Craig Venter, and funded by Perkin Elmer, which played a large part in sequencing the human genome and was hoping to make a massively profitable business out of selling subscriptions to genome databases. The business plan unravelled within a year or two of the publication of the first human genome. With hindsight, the opponents of Celera were right. Science is making and will make much greater progress with open data sets.
Here are some … Keep Reading
Good to see magazine publishers alerting their subscribers to the use of their publications on the iPhone and iTouch. In this week’s Athletics Weekly the column below appeared. Nice!
Publishers working with Exact Editions can now offer their subscribers their content on-the-move, anytime, anywhere. Very cool! And with the new 3GS iPhone announced yesterday download speeds are going to be even quicker.
If you have access to iTunes you can download the Exactly … Keep Reading
The Page-turning feature that one frequently finds on Flash solutions for digital magazines or digital book readers, has always struck me as a dire software innovation. Unecessary, slow, boring — because the page turning is always the same experience. Gimmicky: I have even seen versions which emulate turning a creaking page of parchment! An example of software ingenuity which is orthogonal to the direction of travel. I suspect that the method was … Keep Reading
Apple yesterday accepted the digital editions App that we have been developing for some months. It is now has in the App Store. Exactly is the Free Exact Editions App, from which any title on the Exact Editions platform can be read on the iPhone.
Search for ‘Exactly’ in the iPhone App store and you will find it there, with this brief description:
… Keep ReadingExactly brings magazines and books to the iPhone in their original full-colour format. Each page is delivered
In conformity with our policy of conducting R&D on the project of a Twitter Book Club in public (see earlier posts here, here and here) and in response to the first session of Jonathan Ross’s wossybookclub, which took place yesterday, it seems appropriate to give some provisional reactions to it in the open:
Powered by