Exact Editions Blog

Barbara Quint (always worth reading), in Information Today, has some interesting comments as she reports on the massive Google Newspaper archiving project.

Google’s efforts in this space are undoubtedly impressive. But the readable quality of old newspapers is inevitably poor. Take a look at this 1944 issue of the St Petersburg Times. Google can break the newspaper up into articles and can find the headline “Russians Nearing Minsk” — this is not easy and totally cool — but … Keep Reading

Sandy Smith who blogs at Paper Palate has a thorough review of the trial issue of Taste Italia and in the process she has also produced some interesting practical comments on the digital platform.

But I was pleasantly suprised by how convenient this format is. You have an entire magazine – and with your subscription, all the back issues – laid out before you. You just click on a page to browse, expanding and collapsing pages at will. Unlike ad

Was it a coincidence that on pretty much the same day Google made an announcement about its massive newspaper archiving project, Plastic Logic announced its plans for an eInk newspaper reader? Both stories were caught by the NY Times: plastic papers here, and deep print archives here.

If Plastic Logic have their way you will be able to read any of today’s newspaper anywhere in a digital format on a single fold away sheet, something like a … Keep Reading

Modern Poetry in Translation joins the shop. Enjoy the free trial issue:

• ToC
• Poem which makes a joke with its typography.
• The editorial affectionately remembers Michael Hamburger, noted poet and elder brother of Paul Hamlyn, a very innovative, and a very rich, publisher and philanthropist.

Taste Italia joins our shop. Taste the trial issue

• ToC
• Brindisi has some wonderful restaurants (note the clickable phone numbers and urls)
• mmmmm these aubergine recipes yum yum