Exact Editions Blog

Peter Brantley and Ben Vershbow run excellent blogs that anyone interested in digital libraries should follow. They have some insightful postings on the recent Amazon (Kindle) and Google (MyLibrary) developments: Ben here and Peter on Google’s MyLibrary. But they also contribute some frankly dumb and thoroughly misleading ideas to the discussion. Item: after some shrewd analysis of the shortcomings of the reported/conjectured spec. for the Kindle, Ben Vershbow asks us to:

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Part of our deal with publishers is that they get most (sometimes it seems like ‘nearly all’) the revenue from the subscriptions we collect. They also get the subscribers lists (email addresses , country of residence and subscription dates) this being pretty much all the individual identifying data that we collect. They also have the responsibility for setting the price of the annual subscriptions that we sell on their behalf.

It quite often happens that a publisher will ask us … Keep Reading

The event of the week was the death of Pavarotti. Opera recently joined the Exact Editions service and the free trial issue has just one mention of the great Luciano. (If you look at the page –note that the saved search highlights the search term). Perhaps it is appropriate that this is a page on which there is a great picture of the newest operatic mega-star Netrebko.

This sad and moving news should not obscure the earth-shaking … Keep Reading

You will find an instructive account, from personal experience, of the deficiencies of the New York Times E-Reader at PersonaNonData. The commercial ineptitude of the NYT is startling, no follow-up calls during the promotional free trial, the dithering over Times Select, and the general uncertainty about what a great newspaper should now become. When the story about this new (Microsoft) E-Reader first surfaced, we wondered why no one was mentioning the old Microsoft eReader (has everybody forgotten what … Keep Reading

AnOther Magazine joins the shop. Or yet another magazine (55th) joins the shop. This is an enormous magazine (400pp in the trial issue and counting); like its brother AnOther Man and its sister Dazed & Confused the magazine is full of wondrous photography, much of it in the ads.

• If you like legs as much as Dolce & Gabana. There are lots more here and here, and here.
• An interview with Mia Farrow. Extraordinary photos.
• Swarm