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