The Exact Editions system supports e-commerce solutions for various currencies and for different publishers. There are now a few more ‘shops’ on our page which lists the various options. This all started when Le Monde Diplomatique asked us to support their french language edition, which of course had to be priced in Euros. It was Napoleon who first noticed that the English were a nation of shop-keepers.
Steppe magazine is added to the shop.
Eoin Purcell (whom we only know through the blogosphere) has followed Exact Editions closely and he makes a comment about the pricing of our recently released titles (Sawdays and Debretts). Eoin thinks the pricing is very reasonable (Debrett’s individual is £75 and institutional is £295 per annum) and, by email, wonders whether we ‘advise’ the publishers, or whether they make up their own minds. Mostly they make up their own minds, but of course they sometimes consult us.… Keep Reading
As you get older (its more than 30 years since I started out as a greenhorn philosophy editor) you begin to notice that its sometimes quite hard to read the typeface of the books you want to read. Especially when the books are paperback reprints of books that were originally published in a larger hardback format (eg wonderful book on Leonardo). Since the cost of reformatting a major book are trivial, I used to complain about those mean-spirited publishers … Keep Reading
Sawdays, the Bristol-based, ecologically sensitive, travel publishers are using the Exact Editions platform to provide digital access to some of their titles. The ‘Sawdays shop’ opens today and will have a policy of completely Open Access for five days (till close of business on Friday 20th). The Exact Editions system is a ‘streaming’ system, it does not involve file downloads, so there is no likelihood of all the cats getting out of the bag whilst providing a limited window … Keep Reading
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