This topic is really only for publishing and logistics nerds. Since I am not nerdy enough, I am not really qualified to opine on the matter (but when did that stop anybody?). Anyway we find it an intriguing and perplexing issue. PersonaNonData today has a report on the flux that digital publishers find themselves in. Should there be as many ISBNs for each title as there are conceivable ebook formats? If so, there are going to be a very great … Keep Reading
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Zoomii is an imaginative way of using and displaying front covers (works fine in Firefox, not in Opera and Safari). It is an alternative interface to Amazon which gives you a good way of shopping for Amazon titles using a ‘virtual bookstore’ with the covers on shelves, face-out and clickable to purchase or get more data. I really like the way that it is built on Amazon bookstore meta-data, uses Amazon’s S3 and Amazon EC2 (Amazon’s cloud computing infrastructure) and … Keep Reading
This issue of whether Google helps the writer and the researcher seems to me a more important question, with a more clearly positive response, than the bugbear which is apparently agitating Nicholas Carr “Is Google Making us Stupid?”. Nicholas Carr quotes various pessimists. For example, Maryanne Wolf who, perhaps worried that the web is encouraging intermittent and chunky reading, posits that “Deep reading is indistinguishable from deep thinking”, or Richard Foreman who suggests that under the pressure of information … Keep Reading
Well its really a catalogue (not a magazine) for a trade show:
The organiser wanted us to produce the catalogue with no option for ‘single page’ views. When I overheard discussion of this request, I assumed that it would not be practical, but I am pleased to say that the Exact Editions platform can be adapted to meet this slightly unusual request.
Why would the customer want this? His principal reason was that he wanted to make sure that his … Keep Reading
The Exact Editions system supports e-commerce solutions for various currencies and for different publishers. There are now a few more ‘shops’ on our page which lists the various options. This all started when Le Monde Diplomatique asked us to support their french language edition, which of course had to be priced in Euros. It was Napoleon who first noticed that the English were a nation of shop-keepers.
