Exact Editions Blog

Well before I get to that…..Today is a really important day for me because I bought my iPhone yesterday and it has been charged up during the night, while fresh firmware and a new operating system were installed etc, etc. [ Fresh firmware, a new O/S, and a new version of iTunes on my Mac…Why dont they just ship a virgin device and get all the bits installed over the internet? ]. Its now all lickety spit, charged up, and … Keep Reading

Faber Finds is a new list of POD (Print on Demand) titles from Faber the distinguished London publisher which revives titles buried in their extensive list of out of print titles. It is a very impressive list with many attractive authors and subjects. The motto of the series is ‘Bringing Great Writing Back into Print.’ I bet it will do that well and lead to steady sales from their long tail (there is more meat in the Faber long tail … Keep Reading

Barbara Quint (always worth reading), in Information Today, has some interesting comments as she reports on the massive Google Newspaper archiving project.

Google’s efforts in this space are undoubtedly impressive. But the readable quality of old newspapers is inevitably poor. Take a look at this 1944 issue of the St Petersburg Times. Google can break the newspaper up into articles and can find the headline “Russians Nearing Minsk” — this is not easy and totally cool — but … Keep Reading

Sandy Smith who blogs at Paper Palate has a thorough review of the trial issue of Taste Italia and in the process she has also produced some interesting practical comments on the digital platform.

But I was pleasantly suprised by how convenient this format is. You have an entire magazine – and with your subscription, all the back issues – laid out before you. You just click on a page to browse, expanding and collapsing pages at will. Unlike ad