Exact Editions Blog

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

Paid Content has a story about a Hearst financed venture called FirstPaper, which has big ambitions. It is operating in stealth mode, and little is being said about what is up: but here is a glimpse from one of the recruitment ads:

A startup company which is well-funded by a huge media conglomerate located near Columbus Circle is looking for highly skilled, professional C# developers to help build software services around an innovative hardware product which will revolutionize the

The idea of seamless web access from a plane or a train has been ’round the corner’ for years. But it is not yet quite there. Perhaps 2008 is the year in which things really will change. There has been a flurry of reports which suggest that the dam could soon break.

It is not an easy matter to find out who exactly is doing something here, (as opposed to simply talking about it). Exact Editions is keen to work … Keep Reading

A band of experts has spent a lot of time constructing a thoughtful report on possible reforms to the US law of copyright. The excellent Open Access News blog gives you the essential links.

I have not read it all; it is a lot of reading — 150 dense pages. And it is all recommendations for the Copyright Office to consider before possibly asking Congress to change the law. But whoever was charged with finalising the report for publication … Keep Reading