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Our Search is Getting more Boolean

A site release today, pepped up our search a smidgin. We now support ‘not’s’ and ‘or’s’. So you can now search for Alistair Campbell with Blair or Brown, but not talking about Iraq. This was apparently more frequent than the recent crop of New Labour memoires would have us believe:

“alistair campbell” |brown |blair -iraq:

or

Six search results

a simple search string:

http://www.exacteditions.com/exact/search.do?term=%22alistair+campbell%22+%7Cbrown+
%7Cblair+-iraq%3A&issueId=2656&magazineId=377&sort=0&type=all

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How to build an audience quickly…..

What is Mygazines? ….. (answer from their web site)…”Mygazines is your free place to browse, share, archive and customize unlimited magazine articles uploaded by you, the Mygazines community.”

The service appears to be in part a YouTube for magazines, and an aspirant social network. The technology is adequate to impressive: the magazines are rendered in Flash, and the user is able to mark. ‘share’, comment upon, pages and magazine articles. The system is largely automated, except that some of … Keep Reading

Jazzwise

Jazzwise is now in our magazine shop.

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Scrapbook

Scrapbook joins the shop:

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The iPhone Goes Both Ways

Much recent chatter about the promise of the iPhone for book publishers to which we have contributed. See BookSquare, Brantley, PersonaNonData, Digitalist, TeleRead, amongst others.

But there is another side to this: what if the iPhone gobbles up text as easily as it gives digital access to published works? The iPhone has a camera, is a capable computer, is well connected to the web, and a lot can happen when you put a web … Keep Reading

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