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.
You probably noticed that we recently inserted some tabs on the home page.
Its one of the great advantages of the way the web works, hierarchical (page oriented — but forking), that makes it possible for such a tabbed system to accommodate 100’s of magazines. We will need something else when we have 1,000s of titles. I guess the ‘kiosk’ will feel more like a library at that point.
At the weekend there was an interesting article in the NYTimes about the increasingly wary reaction of libraries to the Google Book Search proposition. Major research libraries are looking for a more open distribution model, without Google proprietary restrictions, and supporting the OCA (Open Content Alliance); and more are realising that they can do their own thing.
Interesting comments on this article from Michael Cairns at PersonaNonData, and from Peter Brantley at O’Reilly. Interestingly different, but they both … Keep Reading
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