Aaron Miller of the Book Glutton, has an interesting post on books, file formats and the web at the TeleRead blog. The comments are also worth reading. Aaron makes the point that both Google and Amazon, two of the webs giants, are heavily committed to books and to putting books straight on the web, page by page (people tend to overlook the extent to which Amazon is doing this in all the hoo-ha about the still experimental Kindle).
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Dorothy Salo who pens an insightful blog, Caveat Lector (what a brilliant name for a blog) has the headline “Hate to be Georgia State“. She is referring to the controversy surrounding the action against that University, for blatant copyright infringement, taken by the two biggest University Presses, OUP, CUP and Sage, one of the most respected publishers of high level social science. The action is backed, perhaps underwritten, by the AAP.
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Last week we had the London Book Fair, and the book publishing business seemed to be in fine shape. The organisers, Reed Exhibitions do a pretty good job and the web site is getting better (more usable and useful year by year). But it is a fact that Exhibitions and Conference organisers have not yet done a really good job on putting the key documentation on line in an easily searchable and linkable format: why not? But there were … Keep Reading
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
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