Keeping the list to manageable lengths, there have been five really important developments this year. Let us work back through the year which as it happens is pretty much the order of importance:
We started offering Institutional, or Site Licenses a year ago. This was not a part of our original business model, but the Exact Editions founders know that market from previous experience. We have, even so, been surprised at the strength of interest for consumer magazines. To judge by the range of libraries subscribing to our services (government departments, international organisations and schools as well as universities) there is a large global market for subscriber content delivered via IP to private … Keep Reading
Yesterday one of our publishing partners asked that the phone numbers in their catalogue should not be ‘live’. Incidentally, they were very pleased to have the ISBNs targetting their e-commerce engine, but for some reason not so keen on the phone numbers being immediately usable. Ours not to reason why….. the numbers were switched off. We have had such requests before, and it is not difficult for the database to switch phone numbers ‘off’, (ie to ‘non-clickable’) if this is … Keep Reading
Librarians who subscribe to our institutional content licenses now have some convenient statistical tools which summarize monthly page use and search terms.
The statistical reports are only available to Librarians who have a personal management account with Exact Editions (typically the librarian who places the original order). When such registered librarians log in to Exact Editions with their username and password they will find a new “librarian: stats” link on the toolbar.
This link takes them to our stats page, … Keep Reading
We are seeing a surge in gift subscriptions. Could this be a sign of Christmas? Or is it the first loosening of consumer budgets as we climb out of the recession? Your guess is as good as mine.
If Christmas shopping is on your agenda, here are some last minute ideas (we are 24×7 so you can even delay your shopping to Christmas morning if you expect to wake up before your nearest and dearest are online). Here are … Keep Reading
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