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Promoting with Book Collections

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Exact Editions is a streaming content solution offering access to magazines or books through subscriptions. Since the platform is a streaming solution, and delivers content in real time, with pages and search results appearing as requested by the reader or consumer, it is fortuitously well suited to providing temporary access to content which is normally limited to subscribers. Free and open usage for a limited period is not a proposition easily supported by other book or … Keep Reading

Georgian London through a Reading Room

Restoration Stories by Philippa Stockley and Charlie Hopkinson is one of the 30 books in the Pimpernel Press Collection of books on gardens, landscape, architecture and history now available for institutional and individual annual subscription from Exact Editions. In this short notice we will focus on one title, one chapter and one house in this book, a book which comprises 16 essays, richly illustrated, on carefully restored houses, mostly Georgian, mostly in East London. The timely reader of this blog … Keep Reading

Reading Rooms at Virtual Meetings

The American Philosophical Association is the largest learned society for professional philosophers and for decades it has organised professional gatherings for its members through three annual conferences: the Eastern division in early January, and in February and April for the Central and Pacific divisions. These events usually take place over a long weekend based around one or more hotels in cities with good transport connections and conference facilities. In common with other learned societies, the APA realised in the course … Keep Reading

Promoting magazines with Reading Rooms

Because the Exact Editions platform is a streaming solution rather than downloads based, it has been feasible to develop a flexible way for magazines to provide time-limited access to individual issues or the complete magazine archive. Short-term ‘trial’ access to the complete archive is proving to be a compelling way to promote specialist magazines to libraries.

The Book Collector is a recent addition to the Exact Editions platform. Obviously this magazine is of much interest to libraries as well as … Keep Reading

Reading Rooms for books

Exact Editions introduced a new feature for magazine publishers in 2019: Reading Rooms. The ability to create time-limited, short term, open access to an issue of a magazine or its whole archive (see here for an explanation of how to use Reading Rooms with social media). The facility is now available to book publishers using Exact Editions and in this post we give some guidance as to how the toolset can be used with books. Each book on the platform … Keep Reading

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