This is an update to any of the authors who have uploaded their books to our site in the last week to 10 days. This may or may not affect you, but don't worry, it won't affect your books!

In December we made a decision to do a fairly hefty workflow alteration, changing how we deal with our code base on Sharing Books. In doing so we needed to make certain linking and automated email messaging more dynamic. Basically it was set up so that the live site and the dev site were using hard-coded links and URLs, and our new system and workflow needed them to be more dynamic. We made the changes, and everything looked like it was working...

Until users started using things. At that point we found out that one email in our system was sending out URLs that pointed to our development server, which is locked safely behind a wall of passwords so users don't get exposed to new and volatile code.

In a nut shell, what happened was when a book would get approved by our Volunteer Librarians, the email that informed authors and illustrators of their successfully published book would have links sending them to the development site, which they did not have access too.

This is, to say the least, an extremely embarrassing error on my part. I do apologize to the authors who were troubled by logins they could not log into, and links that did not link where they should. We have fixed the problem, and books going forward will no longer have this issue when approved. For those who received emails with erroneous links, you can get the proper URLs for your books by:

1) clicking on the 'Newest Shared Books' link on the site.
2) for contributors, logging in and clicking on 'Published' in your user navigation block.

Sorry about any confusion this has caused.