Sawdays Pubs & Inns of England & Wales will be free to access for a couple of weeks. That means you can browse it and search it as much as you like, just as though you had bought it, until August 24th.
This is one of the easiest and cheapest ways of getting the full flavour of Exact Editions on the iPhone. And The Fox and Hounds at Christmas Commons has my personal recommendation.
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The initial batch of three titles is available at www.exacteditions.com/timeout
Three olympic city guides. They have lots of clickable links and they all click-call to the relevant local phone numbers. By our count, 1,485 telephone numbers in the London guide, 548 in the Beijing guide, and 564 in the Sydney guide. When we saw the London guide with its density of very useful phone numbers, we had to see about generalising from the eight digit (London) phone numbers to get … Keep Reading
The Sawdays guide to Pubs & Inns of England and Wales has been enhanced so that all the pub phone numbers are clickable.
Here is a YouTube video showing our Technical Director, Tim Bruce, calling the Red Lion at Hinxton from his iPhone. Then getting the Google map so he can walk to it.
We think that this is a ‘first’. The first time that digital books can initiate a call to ordinary phone numbers mentioned in them.
An annual … Keep Reading
There is a major article in today’s Financial Times by John Gapper on how Sony lost the battle of the e-book, Gapper reckons that Sony has been trounced for two main reasons:
… Keep ReadingFirst, the Kindle links to Amazon’s online store and there are now 145,000 titles available to download. As well as books, readers can subscribe to daily newspapers and even blogs, which makes the Kindle a more useful device in everyday life.
Second, Amazon came up with a
We had some interesting feedback from a valued critic yesterday. She was looking at a large title (nearly 900 pages) that we have in a test account and she pointed out that it was very easy to read different chapters once she had decided to keep the Table of Contents in one tab, and opened the specific chapters she was studying in separate tabs.
I am a very messy user of tabs and windows (my colleagues shrug their shoulders when … Keep Reading
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