Bloomsbury library now on line

From the Bloomsbury Library site: Welcome to the Bloomsbury Library Online; a new way for the readers of today to read the best books of today. The Bloomsbury Library Online is a growing home for reading through your local library. Our online bookshelves include book group titles, children’s history books, teen fiction, international fiction, books in translation, prize winners, crime, thrillers, history, sports and Shakespeare. Readers can read the book, search the text, access author interviews, reviews and press features as well as reading group guides if applicable. Each bookshelf is available on annual subscription and will be charged according to the population served. New titles will be added to each bookshelf free-of-charge within the subscription year where appropriate. New themed bookshelves will also be created regularly. Access to the content will be through UK Public Libraries using their existing technology both within the libraries and remotely with the use of a library card on home computers and internet enabled devices. The Library is powered by Exact Editions, and in their blog they have some interesting facts about its development. There is a lot more in the blog so check it out: Bloomsburys project required us to develop our platform in ways that we had not previously considered necessary. They wanted to be able to sell books as groups, and although this was not part of the formal requirement, we suspected that the next publisher to adopt this strategy would wish to be able to sell books in groups (ie shelves) but also to sell the same books as individual titles, both to individuals and to institutional subscribers. And the next publisher would want to include the same book in multiple shelves, and then remove them from some shelves