Google Catalogs seems to be neglected. I checked it out earlier today and could not find a single Catalog with a 2008 publication date. I did find one catalogue with £ prices, and I had not realised that the Catalogs service ever included any British catalogue companies (we have catalog vendors and catalogue companies depending on where we are?).
Google Catalogs was launched in 2001, and uses rather similar technology to Google Book Search. I doubt that it was a … Keep Reading
Berkshire Publishing have launched a shop using the Exact Editions platform and our e-commerce solution. So their customers can now license their major reference titles online, either for individual use or for institutional subscriptions.
The Berkshire ‘home page’ on our system has a look and feel which reflects the publisher:
All the text in the reference works is searchable, and to an extent the books are also viewable for free in the shopping environment. The limitation is that the … Keep Reading
We expect to do business 24X7. So customers buy magazine subscriptions at all hours, and it is fun to look at our shop in the morning to see how many Americans, Japanese and Australian customers have done business overnight; but I did not expect that we would be selling institutional licenses at the weekend. Our institutional customers can sign up on-line and complete the purchase by informing us of their IP range.
This last couple of days we sold … Keep Reading
What an amazing achievement:
Here is the millionth book.
Paul Courant’s blog about the milestone.
In a very few years all 7.5 million bound volumes (that must include magazines and newspapers) will be searchable, by anyone, anywhere. That is right the University of Michigan will allow searching of its collections by anyone (not reading of entire volumes or even pages, for reasons of copyright, but searching). It can hardly be imagined what potential this has for scholarship (especially in … Keep Reading
The Exact Editions system added some important functionality this year.
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