Exact Editions Blog

Microsoft, Google and others, working through the C&CIA (a technology trade group), has mounted a campaign Defend Fair Use for the liberal interpretation of fair use/fair dealing for copyright materials. It is surprising to see Google and Microsoft as allies… but of course they have a fair point. In a clever piece of timing, today, Google’s YouTube strikes a deal through which it will remunerate music copyright holders for the ‘performance’ of their materials on submitted YouTube videos. The artists’ … Keep Reading

Opera joins the Exact Editions shop. The free trial issue has plenty to tempt the keen opera buff:

• A profile of the sensational, and stunning, Anna Netrebko
• Plenty of reviews of CD’s, of DVD’s and Books.
• Why would anyone wish to be reincarnated as Scarpia? Yehuda Shapiro provides some justification for his perverse choice.

I will soon stop counting, but this is our 53rd title.

• A spectacular front cover and contents clickable from there.
• This is a magazine with an international editorial coverage. As you can tell from the masthead (or is that a mastfoot?).
• It also has some intriguing small ads. I have always fancied a Lola.

A couple of week’s ago we referenced the new Amazon service Create Space. Last week the development drew some interesting discussion on the Charkin blog: see notes and discussions ‘On Retailers Becoming Publishers’, ‘Death of the Publisher?‘, (NB the question mark) and ‘Print on Demand’. There was a deal of concern expressed in the comments that Amazon may be in too strong a position and that publishers may get ‘disintermediated’. But I suspect that the … Keep Reading

We had some feedback today asking for more fashion magazines. So this fits the bill.

• AnOther Man is a long magazine, our longest trial issue 320 pages
• And full of beautiful pictures. Some to do with J G Ballard, beautiful people, and Ian Mckellen.
• And this page has a record number of links. Have never seen so many on a single page. Over 200 and we missed a few.