This issue of whether Google helps the writer and the researcher seems to me a more important question, with a more clearly positive response, than the bugbear which is apparently agitating Nicholas Carr “Is Google Making us Stupid?”. Nicholas Carr quotes various pessimists. For example, Maryanne Wolf who, perhaps worried that the web is encouraging intermittent and chunky reading, posits that “Deep reading is indistinguishable from deep thinking”, or Richard Foreman who suggests that under the pressure of information … Keep Reading
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Well its really a catalogue (not a magazine) for a trade show:
The organiser wanted us to produce the catalogue with no option for ‘single page’ views. When I overheard discussion of this request, I assumed that it would not be practical, but I am pleased to say that the Exact Editions platform can be adapted to meet this slightly unusual request.
Why would the customer want this? His principal reason was that he wanted to make sure that his … Keep Reading
The Exact Editions system supports e-commerce solutions for various currencies and for different publishers. There are now a few more ‘shops’ on our page which lists the various options. This all started when Le Monde Diplomatique asked us to support their french language edition, which of course had to be priced in Euros. It was Napoleon who first noticed that the English were a nation of shop-keepers.
Steppe magazine is added to the shop.
- Table of Contents
- A colour photograph taken in 1907!
- Hats
Eoin Purcell (whom we only know through the blogosphere) has followed Exact Editions closely and he makes a comment about the pricing of our recently released titles (Sawdays and Debretts). Eoin thinks the pricing is very reasonable (Debrett’s individual is £75 and institutional is £295 per annum) and, by email, wonders whether we ‘advise’ the publishers, or whether they make up their own minds. Mostly they make up their own minds, but of course they sometimes consult us.… Keep Reading