On Monday we added a feature which will be useful for committed users. Now “Ctrl+→” takes you forward a page (or forward 16 pages if you are in the 16 page mode), and ‘”Ctrl+←” takes you to the previous page. Additionally “Ctrl+↓” takes you out from single pages to thumbnails, and “Ctrl+↑” zooms you in to a closer view.
Zipping around with the control keys certainly helps for serious and continuous reading of the magazines.
Really? Well two Gartner analysts think that it is. The codebase is too vast and unwieldy. It will not run on small systems. Customers are reluctant to upgrade to Vista. Three or four years ago, this would have seemed like really important news. Now it looks somewhat unsurprising. Exact Editions is a young business (three years) and only typical in the way that canaries are typical in coal mines, but as it happens we scarcely use Windows in our … Keep Reading
A magazine for mountain bikers.
Little, Brown are using the Exact Editions platform to provide access to their Autumn Seasonal list.
http://www.exacteditions.com/littlebrowncatalogue
This catalogue has very many links to author’s web sites. More than half the titles appear to have authors with their own web pages. Cherie Blair is one of the very few big name authors in this catalogue without her own web page. Here is Alexander McCall Smith’s page in this catalogue, and here is his web site. In some cases the print … Keep Reading
Fred Wilson, A VC, has some very interesting things to say about music. Something Important is On the Horizon in the Music Business. He may be right, our musical culture may be embracing the web as a system for streaming access and not for file-based distribution (Apple has won that war and the big music publishers are unhappy about that). I am not so sure about his espousal of the ‘Radio Station’ as the new/new thing, with the … Keep Reading
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