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
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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
There is a new burst of enthusiasm for XML amongst book publishers. Mike Shatzkin, who often has cogent things to say, has produced a little encomium for XML in Publisher’s Weekly.
… Keep ReadingHere’s what we call the Copernican Change. We have lived all our lives in a universe where the book is “the sun” and everything else we might create or sell was a “subsidiary right” to the book, revolving around that sun.
In our new universe, the content encased
I had a wry chuckle on noticing the form of the url’s that Google is using in its magazine service. They are something like this: (http) //books.google.com/books?id=Ok8XtrhowscC which is more or less gobbledeygook because it doesnt need to be anything else. But the chuckle was over the way that Google give magazines a ‘book’ id…. Our system is not too dissimilar and having worked from ‘magazines’ towards books, we were until a week ago putting a ‘magazine’ moniker in the … Keep Reading