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Pages and Page Numbers…….

Many digital edition platforms ignore and eliminate traditional pagination. They create a ‘reflowable’ text which has a loose format which adjusts its shape to the device on which the text is displayed. Exact Editions (along with Google Book Search and most of the PDF-based digital magazine systems) is firmly page-centric. And we actually use the pages, by making the Tables and Indices live resources.

So we hit problems when publishers play fast and loose with page numbers. We met this … Keep Reading

More new Stuff: Petticoats and Widgets

The widget is a bit easier to explain, but we will ruffle the petticoats in a minute; as for the widget, you can kick the tires of this widget immediately by clicking on the front cover of New Humanist in the right hand column. That is a front cover image of the monthly publication. The humble New Humanist widget keeps track of the front cover of the current edition. A widget that guards a monthly periodical is going to have … Keep Reading

Geo-links from Dive

Here is a page in an open free sample issue of Dive magazine which shows our post code links.

If you click on the post code, TR27 4HN for Gulfstream Scuba Ltd you get straight to this Google map of the shop’s location.

A passing observation: I love the way that Google Maps now gives you some photographs of places close to the postcode or location that you have given for a map request. If … Keep Reading

Green

Welcome to a new magazine in our Australian shop. This was our quickest magazine into the shop. Only one day, the publisher could work very fast as we moved from test files to release version (I think he may have been up all night) because he had been let down by another digital system at the last minute and had already promised his audience a digital edition.

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Darnton on Google and Libraries

There is an entertaining and instructive piece about libraries The Library in the New Age and their exciting future, from Robert Darnton (distinguished historian of print and librarian at Harvard) in the current issue of the New York Review of Books. A lot of his focus is on Google and Google Book Search, but the conclusions of the article are surprisingly conservative: “Meanwhile, I say: shore up the library. Stock it with printed matter.” It is as though … Keep Reading

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