Having just had four days holiday without web-access, one realises that things move too quickly right now. Here is some stuff that I hope to catch up with:
Tim O’Reilly posts about Adobe opening up Share, a generalisable document widget system. A kind of YouTube for documents. Looks interesting and one more copyright challenge for publishers and authors to think about. Yet another reason for keeping close control of those PDF files before they get shared in ways that … Keep Reading
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Garden Rail and Narrow Gauge World come from Atlantic Publishers. They are the quickest titles into the system, since it took 3 weeks from the preliminary inquiry email we had from their publisher, for the contracts to be exchanged, the archive of back issues to be processed and the titles now to be in the shop.
How beautiful is a Garratt and how evocative the Baldwin?
The patter of references to Google Book Search in these blogs since August may have betrayed our interest in offering a service to book publishers. We have for some weeks been testing how Exact Editions works as a promotional service to book publishers and the first customisation is now in the open for Berkshire Publishing at http://www.exacteditions.com/berkshirepublishing.
Berkshire Publishing is a young and highly innovative publisher of academic and general reference titles (Berkshire MA not UK). They have produced … Keep Reading
Calcio Italia, a new magazine in nostra edicola for followers of Serie A
- Plenty of sold out back issues. Calcio Italia needs a complete digital archive.
- Adrian Mutu gets my vote for player of the season.
- Channel 4 have always had good coverage of Serie A. Cool that the publisher already has an ad for the digital edition of Calcio Italia in the Channel 4 web service.
This is our first football magazine and the 56th title … Keep Reading
A few years ago, the standard view was that magazines and books needed a suitable digital file format in which they could be stored (something which might become an industry standard like the MP3 was for music). The internet was the powerful new way in which publications would be shipped. To this way of thinking, digitization was all about electronic delivery. It seemed kind of obvious that this was the road ahead, and most of the companies, our competitors, … Keep Reading