Fruitful discussion with Frances Haugen on the Library Gang Podcast (50 mins). She is an impressive spokes person for Google Book Search. She spoke well about Google Mobile and Catalogues and metadata (deep waters here). There were places where she had to be very careful about what she says (not allowed to talk about the Settlement before the judge’s ruling this summer). She stressed that they really have a lot to do now to make the Settlement work. There … Keep Reading
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We have enhanced the searchability and findability of the Exact Editions service with a site release which is being rolled out today. The internal name for this enhancement is ‘universal preview’ and it brings magazines more into line with the way books are handled on the Exact Editions platform.
- Users can now search every issue of every title in the store. A search for Omdurman will bring up search results and fragments of pages. No full view pages. The first
I recently saw a twitter from Tim O’Reilly to the effect that ‘books as apps’ dont scale. That struck me as quite sage — Tim does a good line in sage twitters. But his proposal for creating a ‘channel’ on Stanza doesnt sound quite right (a channel for what? Editions, Versions, Texts?), and what about this suggestion that Apple might get into the business of selling eBooks? Apple have done pretty well with selling music through the iTunes store. They … Keep Reading
We started offering Institutional, or Site Licenses a year ago. This was not a part of our original business model, but the Exact Editions founders know that market from previous experience. We have, even so, been surprised at the strength of interest for consumer magazines. To judge by the range of libraries subscribing to our services (government departments, international organisations and schools as well as universities) there is a large global market for subscriber content delivered via IP to private … Keep Reading
Librarians who subscribe to our institutional content licenses now have some convenient statistical tools which summarize monthly page use and search terms.
The statistical reports are only available to Librarians who have a personal management account with Exact Editions (typically the librarian who places the original order). When such registered librarians log in to Exact Editions with their username and password they will find a new “librarian: stats” link on the toolbar.
This link takes them to our stats page, … Keep Reading