The Idler joins Exact Editions. This is not the original Idler in which many of Samuel Johnsons Essays were first published but (to quote Wikipedia) ” a bi-yearly British magazine exploring alternative ways of working and living, still published today.” Reckon that ‘still’ is a bit cheeky. What does Wikipedia mean? The Idler has just joined Exact Editions. Wake up wikieditors!
Exactly is a free App for the iPhone which can be downloaded from the Apple iTunes Store here.
If you have an iPhone and are in the magazine business you should download it and check it out with the hundreds of free sample magazine issues that are open to any user of the Exact Editions store.
If you dont have an iPhone this short (c. 5 minute) video will give you a good overview of the power of digital … Keep Reading
Celera was the company founded by Craig Venter, and funded by Perkin Elmer, which played a large part in sequencing the human genome and was hoping to make a massively profitable business out of selling subscriptions to genome databases. The business plan unravelled within a year or two of the publication of the first human genome. With hindsight, the opponents of Celera were right. Science is making and will make much greater progress with open data sets.
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Good to see magazine publishers alerting their subscribers to the use of their publications on the iPhone and iTouch. In this week’s Athletics Weekly the column below appeared. Nice!
Publishers working with Exact Editions can now offer their subscribers their content on-the-move, anytime, anywhere. Very cool! And with the new 3GS iPhone announced yesterday download speeds are going to be even quicker.
If you have access to iTunes you can download the Exactly … Keep Reading
The Page-turning feature that one frequently finds on Flash solutions for digital magazines or digital book readers, has always struck me as a dire software innovation. Unecessary, slow, boring — because the page turning is always the same experience. Gimmicky: I have even seen versions which emulate turning a creaking page of parchment! An example of software ingenuity which is orthogonal to the direction of travel. I suspect that the method was … Keep Reading
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