As you get older (its more than 30 years since I started out as a greenhorn philosophy editor) you begin to notice that its sometimes quite hard to read the typeface of the books you want to read. Especially when the books are paperback reprints of books that were originally published in a larger hardback format (eg wonderful book on Leonardo). Since the cost of reformatting a major book are trivial, I used to complain about those mean-spirited publishers … Keep Reading
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Sawdays, the Bristol-based, ecologically sensitive, travel publishers are using the Exact Editions platform to provide digital access to some of their titles. The ‘Sawdays shop’ opens today and will have a policy of completely Open Access for five days (till close of business on Friday 20th). The Exact Editions system is a ‘streaming’ system, it does not involve file downloads, so there is no likelihood of all the cats getting out of the bag whilst providing a limited window … Keep Reading
PersonaNonData notes a thoughtful posting on the role of catalogues in today’s market from Arsen Kashkashian who is a buyer in a Boulder bookstore. Arsen’s recommendations are interesting and progressive, but the situation is both more complicated and in several respects simpler than he allows.
- “The catalog would be available online, and each store would access it through a distinct login.” But a publisher’s catalog to the extent that it is a promotional tool should be ‘open access’ without need
We have opened a shop for Debrett’s through which they are initially offering indvidual and institutional licenses to their formidable (3000 pp in print) and authoritative Debrett’s Peerage and Baronetage.
The resource will clearly have a strong appeal for the growing interest in family history and genealogy and the publishers have generously allowed free searching from the Debrett’s shop. That is right ‘free searching’ but browsing limited to the 16 page view; but come to think of it Exact … Keep Reading
Yesterday the second iteration of the iPhone appeared. Much anticipated and even with the hype not a disappointment. The iPhone and the soon to arrive Google Android are opening up a new wave of geo-rooted software.
Google Maps/Google Earth is helping a lot of this innovation and it is extraordinary how much can be done with the resource. Gutenberg would have been amazed that there is now a buildings-in-Google-earth typeface. One could even write a poem with … Keep Reading