Exact Editions Blog

I should declare myself a Francophile from the outset. I love the food, fashion, literature, mountains, beaches, cafés and the language.

I love the turn-of-phrase. The way something so simple can sound so beautiful. So, last year, when Le Monde Diplomatique asked us to deliver the French version of their publication in addition to the English edition, I was delighted!

Part of the service offered to all our publishing partners, is to manage the customer service queries relating to the … Keep Reading

International DJ joins the Exact Editions shop.

• ToC or it could be a PlayList with three digit track-style page numbering
• Cool DJ Gear
• Sasha

The outgoing US President has signed a bill which creates a US Copyright Czar. See the PC Magazine report.

Bush signed the Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property (PRO-IP) Act, a measure that will create several new government enforcement positions.

If it turns out that it is President Obama who is in fact charged with appointing this Czar, there must be a small chance that Laurance Lessig will fill the post. That would be an ironic turn of … Keep Reading

The Exact Editions platform is this week launching a customised shop for c. 50 titles from Gower, a leading publisher of high level business and management titles. The books can be searched for free, and interested parties can buy subscriptions with a credit card or their PayPal account. If you log in to the Gower shop you will find that there are 30 pages in these books which use the word “bubble”. It seems inevitable that bubbles are … Keep Reading

First there was Bloomsbury starting an Open Access academic publishing programme for monographs. Now we see that Springer is buying up BioMed Central, which publishes nearly 200 open access scientific journals. See Peter Suber’s comments on this.

I am sure that Springer are not intending to close down BMC (well 95% sure!). I agree with Suber that the really interesting aspect to this acquisition is that the big commercial publishers are now begining to feel their way into a … Keep Reading