Exact Editions Blog

We have put up a service which is a promotional exercise for the Catholic Herald. Its a browseable, searchable but not properly readable digital sample of the weekly magazine/newspaper which we sell for them as a subscription service. You can try it out from their web pages or from this link:

http://www.exacteditions.com/sample/catholicherald

If a viewer of this sample tries to click through to the full page size, they are politely informed that the ‘thumbnail’ two page view is the … Keep Reading

I noticed yesterday that there had been a spate of sales in the last month for our magazine Ancient Egypt. I wondered whether this was a matter of Cleopatra finally acquiring a taste for Dazed & Confused or Ptolemy getting the hang of digital magazines; but a colleague pointed out that in all likelihood its a matter of pyramid selling…….

Some librarians are complaining that they have been used by Google (hat tip to David Rothman) and they worry that Google is now losing interest in the library market. Google certainly seems to have backed away from publishers (no longer attending the main trade fairs, not making a concerted pitch towards them). So is the Google Book Search project losing its direction? Here are three guesses about that:

1. Google has made tremendous progress with the data capture project. There

Seth Godin has some intriguing and radical reactions to the Kindle. Hear his conclusion:

A lot has been written about how cool the screen is. It is cool. A lot has been written about the offbeat interface (not so good) and the seamless downloading (a wonder.) This is all irrelevant to me. What’s worth commenting on is how close the Kindle comes to revolutionizing the way ideas are sold and spread, and how short it comes out in the end