Yesterday I bought myself Stanza and Classics from the iPhone ApStore. Stanza was free, gives me free access to a lot of books and samples, and the Classics collection cost me 99c. So it wasn’t an expensive day. They both work fine. I will read some of The Time Machine in the Stanza format, and some of Paradise Lost with the mildly annoying page-flip in the Classics reader. Since I havent read too much H G Wells or Milton in … Keep Reading
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It will soon be the first anniversary of our Institutional Shop, which we announced in November 2007. Institutional sales still form a relatively small proportion of our sale of subscriptions, but they have been an encouraging source of new business.
The system for making an institutional sale is completely automated, and web based. A number of institutions have bought their subscriptions and setup their IP-address based accounts with no intervention or action on our part. We knew that university … Keep Reading
The Exact Editions platform now uses the Shibboleth system for federated sign-on to web services. The system is Open Source and much used in the British academic universe, amongst others. Here is a video from JISC explaining some of the advantages (warning: the vides is a little bit ‘corporate’).
Federated services are always a good idea on the web? Such shared technologies all depend on trust….which is becoming ever more important in the web as services are layered on top … Keep Reading
A site release today, pepped up our search a smidgin. We now support ‘not’s’ and ‘or’s’. So you can now search for Alistair Campbell with Blair or Brown, but not talking about Iraq. This was apparently more frequent than the recent crop of New Labour memoires would have us believe:
“alistair campbell” |brown |blair -iraq:
or
a simple search string:
http://www.exacteditions.com/exact/search.do?term=%22alistair+campbell%22+%7Cbrown+
%7Cblair+-iraq%3A&issueId=2656&magazineId=377&sort=0&type=all
The Exact Editions platform makes it easy for publishers to offer free searching of their titles. The publisher can decide how ‘restrictive’ the search results will be, but even on the most restrictive view, the search results can be quite informative. For, example if you search in Debrett’s Peerage and Baronetage on your own name, (click on the Debretts link if you wish to see any of the links which follow) you will find out whether you have aristocratic connections. … Keep Reading