“Exact Editions is great, but why not offer a downloadable version of the magazine, like a PDF?” This seems like a very reasonable request and its one of our more frequent themes in customer support. Here are some of the reasons we do not offer a PDF or issue-download solution:
Is the first title in our French Shop/Kiosque Francaise. And here is the opening of the first article in the free trial issue:
You may not notice our big change of today, when you go to our home page its pretty much as usual:
http://www.exacteditions.com/exact/browseEditions.do
The new feature is a tiny link at the top right to French shop.
http://www.exacteditions.com/exact/login.do?username=shop.fr
Pas grand chose, you may say. But its a big step for us. Maybe several big steps. We now have a generalisable shopping system and can cope with shopping in different currencies. We have an interface and tooltips that can be … Keep Reading
Having just had four days holiday without web-access, one realises that things move too quickly right now. Here is some stuff that I hope to catch up with:
Tim O’Reilly posts about Adobe opening up Share, a generalisable document widget system. A kind of YouTube for documents. Looks interesting and one more copyright challenge for publishers and authors to think about. Yet another reason for keeping close control of those PDF files before they get shared in ways that … Keep Reading
Garden Rail and Narrow Gauge World come from Atlantic Publishers. They are the quickest titles into the system, since it took 3 weeks from the preliminary inquiry email we had from their publisher, for the contracts to be exchanged, the archive of back issues to be processed and the titles now to be in the shop.
How beautiful is a Garratt and how evocative the Baldwin?
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