Google is trimming some services and has laid off some Googlers (not contractors but staff in recruitment). Of course, Google is going to feel the recession and it is big enough and its operations sprawl in ways that will benefit from pruning. We have long been intrigued by the Google Catalogs service, which now, according to Technologizer, folds. This was one of the web services that we looked at most closely when we started Exact Editions (Google Book … Keep Reading
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We have a new option to fit pages to your browser – there are buttons on the toolbar to turn this off/on.
The function will be particularly useful for magazines which have fairly small pages, eg the cycling magazine AtoB, or ones with really large formats, eg The Catholic Herald, which is broadsheet.
If you resize your browser window, the magazine page will shrink or expand to fill the available space.
It works for single pages and (full-sized) … Keep Reading
I recently saw a twitter from Tim O’Reilly to the effect that ‘books as apps’ dont scale. That struck me as quite sage — Tim does a good line in sage twitters. But his proposal for creating a ‘channel’ on Stanza doesnt sound quite right (a channel for what? Editions, Versions, Texts?), and what about this suggestion that Apple might get into the business of selling eBooks? Apple have done pretty well with selling music through the iTunes store. They … Keep Reading
Magazine publishers are going through a torrid time. Yesterday I rang someone at a leading business/finance magazine for whom we have done a test file. But we couldn’t talk because he was having to digest a decision announced yesterday about job reductions in the company. Some of his staff are affected.
We agreed to talk in a few days. What do you say? It is not helpful to point out that if they had been doing a digital edition in … Keep Reading
We are still small cosy team, with no paper work (really none, except the occasional contract) but we still all see the customer support stream. That doesnt mean that we all read it, but its in our email flow and we can look at it, if we choose. I do read a fair bit of it. Occasionally you see a piece of feedback that sets you back, sets you up, causes the jaw to drop, stops you in your tracks!… Keep Reading