The Dashboard on a Mac (OS X v. 10.4 and above) is home to widgets: mini-applications that let you perform common tasks and provide you with fast access to information so we thought that our spine width calculators would make ideal widgets.
There are two versions - one for paperbacks and one for hardbacks - and you have
the choice of either downloading these files to your hard drive
as WinZip or StuffIt files. Simply click on the file type icons below to download the widgets.
Paperback spine width calculator widget
Hardback spine width calculator widget
Other publishing related widgets
Two widgets that are changing the way that publishers market their titles
Random House's Insight Widget
Random House's Insight widget is a new way of browsing and searching pages from books in a Web browser. It delivers interactive book previews by allowing a user to page forward and back through the book or search for keywords in the actual text content of the book - without ever leaving the Web page. To find out more click here
HarperCollins' Browse Inside Widget
Browse Inside is the digital experience of flipping through the pages of a book so that a reader may get a sense of it before purchasing. To find out more click here
A simple explanation of these book widgets is that they offer functionality similar to Amazon's Search Inside the Book; although, unlike Amazon's Search Inside which is only available on the Amazon.com website, the Random House and HarperCollins book widgets are designed to function seamlessly on just about any website, including social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook etc. This essentially means that virtually any website can add “Search Inside”-like functionality to its pages. The Random House and HarperCollins book widgets allow book content to display on just about any website — in a secure format, with tight controls governing which sites have access to which books.
"I've been trying to break into Borders for seven years, endless pitches to so many people, and never got a single book in to stores. I sent a set of hardbacks to them earlier this week and was contacted at 8.50 a.m. the next day to say they'd take the lot. I can't think of a better recommendation. Quality counts.
Thanks to everyone at Biddles for the super books.
The Dashboard on a Mac (OS X v. 10.4 and above) is home to widgets: mini-applications that let you perform common tasks and provide you with fast access to information so we thought that our spine width calculators would make ideal widgets. 
