The Financial Times in mid-air
In the dog days of August, about two weeks ago, Tyler Brûlé found himself in Australia with some cancelled appointment and decided that it was time to get home to London, earlier than he had planned:
… Keep ReadingAfter a layover in Singapore, I boarded the last British Airways service up to London and settled in for the 12-ish hour flight. I asked the crew for a copy of the FT’s weekday edition, and a few
Hurrah! App Access is now part and parcel of our site-wide subscriptions, thanks to the latest upgrade from our tech team. They’re called network subscriptions.
Forget being tied to a computer: a network subscription allows an entire site roaming access to a title’s app on your own iPad or iPhone.
For those of an academic persuasion, this will mean an end to wandering round the library, unable to snag a computer for your research. Students with an iPad or an … Keep Reading
Osprey are one of British publishings steady success stories. They are a middle-sized publisher with a world-wide reputation for publishing illustrated military history books. Osprey has spread its wings and now does other things, but it is the military history books for which they are most famous. They also steadily win awards for innovation and digital publishing initiatives.
In the early days of the iOS app store, Exact Editions worked with Osprey to bring a handful of their titles to … Keep Reading
Today marks the release of World War II Military History as an app, which is available here in Apple’s App Store. It’s a brand new product for the digital publishing scene, and a brand new model in iTunes – the serialisation of books in app form.
Osprey Publishing has been creating books for military history enthusiasts since 1968, and it’s now one of the most successful examples of niche publishing around. The combination of Osprey’s rich archive of historical material … Keep Reading
Daryl Rayner, founder and Managing Director of Exact Editions is convinced that network subscriptions are the real deal for magazine publishers. She has a vision in which major airlines, train companies, hotel chains, and global events (think Cannes Film Festival, Glastonbury and the Frankfurt motor show) all offer their customers collections of beautiful digital magazines, each collection being appropriate and pitched at their audience. At the moment the clearest example of institutions that manage to show collections or magazines/periodicals are … Keep Reading
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