From: adam hodgkin <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 15:24:38 +0100 Exact Editions will in April launch a service which will encourage publishers to offer, and libraries to acquire, perpetual access to digital editions that better serve the needs of scholars and students. Exact Editions invites institutions/libraries with strong interests in poetry/literature to beta-test an initial selection of c 50 titles of poetry, criticism and literature from Carcanet's distinguished list. The sample from Carcanet is available now for beta-testers and the service proper will launch in late April. Institutions wishing to beta-test will be given campus-wide access (via IP address) to all the Carcanet titles, which can be searched, read, cited and shared via web browsers and through the Exactly app on iOS and Android devices. Reading these books with an iPad is a particularly enjoyable experience. Publishers with complex or heavily formatted books, or simply with good books that will be widely read on campus, who wish to trial titles in the service should send an expression of interest to [log in to unmask] Members of the Lib-License list who would like to have their institution evaluate the platform are invited to send a message with the subject line "More details on beta-testing perpetual books" to [log in to unmask] This platform addresses many of the issues identified in the recent Lib-license discussion of Jim O'Donnell's email *"buying" (so to speak) "books" (in a manner of speaking)* http://listserv.crl.edu/wa.exe?A2=LIBLICENSE-L;719dae10.1601 The initial sample from Carcanet includes these titles: A Doctor's Dictionary Iain Bamforth New Poetries VI n/a The Midnight Letterbox Edwin Morgan Selected Poems Guillaume Apollinaire The Good European Ian Bamforth Death's Jest-Book Thomas Lovell Beddoes Selected Poems and Prose Gottfried Benn Collected Poems Sujata Bhatt Fall In, Ghosts Edmund Blunden Fortune's Prisoner Boethius Selected Writings Sir Thomas Browne By Himself John Clare Mari Magno, Dipsychus, and Other Poems Arthur Hugh Clough A Guide to the Cantos of Ezra Pound William Cookson An Andrew Crozier Reader n/a Distance and Memory Peter Davidson Modernist Essays Donald Davie Critical Essays Ford Madox Ford War Prose Ford Madox Ford Westerns Philip French Ovid's Metamorphoses Arthur Golding The Nightfisherman W.S. Graham Collected Poems Ivor Gurney Metropolitan Writings William Hazlitt The Distance, The Shadows Victor Hugo The Long Trail Rudyard Kipling God's Zoo Marius Kociejowski Poems Jules LaForgue Selected Poems Federico Garcia Lorca Reynard the Fox John Masefield Beowulf Edwin Morgan Dithyrambs of Dionysus Friedrich Nietzsche A Charles Olson Reader n/a A Centenary Pessoa Fernando Pessoa The Raven Edgar Allan Poe The Vampyre' and Other Writings John William Polidori Close to the Next Moment Jody Allen Randolph Border Ballads n/a The Poems Rimbaud Selected Poems Christina Rossetti A C.H. Sisson Reader n/a Selected Verse Algernon Swinburne New Selected Poems Shuntaro Tanikawa Under Storm's Wing Helen Thomas Poems Francois Villon The First Yeats W.B. Yeats -- Adam Hodgkin