Exact Editions Blog

Some interesting advice from a young fogie, Ben Goldacre, apparently ensconced in one of London’s smarter Gentlemen’s clubs (hat tip to Martin Stabe).

10 bits of advice about what to do and not to do about newspapers and their web sites. Mostly very sound. These two caught my attention:

(8) Make all of your content work on mobile phones, blackberry browsers, old computers, and PDAs. You have no idea how many people own these. You have no

Microsoft, Google and others, working through the C&CIA (a technology trade group), has mounted a campaign Defend Fair Use for the liberal interpretation of fair use/fair dealing for copyright materials. It is surprising to see Google and Microsoft as allies… but of course they have a fair point. In a clever piece of timing, today, Google’s YouTube strikes a deal through which it will remunerate music copyright holders for the ‘performance’ of their materials on submitted YouTube videos. The artists’ … Keep Reading

Opera joins the Exact Editions shop. The free trial issue has plenty to tempt the keen opera buff:

• A profile of the sensational, and stunning, Anna Netrebko
• Plenty of reviews of CD’s, of DVD’s and Books.
• Why would anyone wish to be reincarnated as Scarpia? Yehuda Shapiro provides some justification for his perverse choice.

I will soon stop counting, but this is our 53rd title.

• A spectacular front cover and contents clickable from there.
• This is a magazine with an international editorial coverage. As you can tell from the masthead (or is that a mastfoot?).
• It also has some intriguing small ads. I have always fancied a Lola.

A couple of week’s ago we referenced the new Amazon service Create Space. Last week the development drew some interesting discussion on the Charkin blog: see notes and discussions ‘On Retailers Becoming Publishers’, ‘Death of the Publisher?‘, (NB the question mark) and ‘Print on Demand’. There was a deal of concern expressed in the comments that Amazon may be in too strong a position and that publishers may get ‘disintermediated’. But I suspect that the … Keep Reading