Some of you may have noticed a brief interruption of the site this morning. This interruption was intentional this time! I am happy to report the following new additions and changes to the Sharing Books site:

1. The site now has the ability to list ISBN numbers on books. Over the next 48 hours expect to see ISBNs appearing on your book details pages. This is a manual process, so it will take some time to get all the books with ISBNs. Also note it can take up to 14 days for us to process a new book and get an ISBN for it, so if you have just uploaded work please be patient.
2. The 'Published Books' page on user profiles has been cleaned up, and should now give a better idea of the status of your book ( Approved, waiting approval, etc ).
3. The downloaded books count had a bug that was causing it to return false information on books that have been updated or changed. The bug caused the download count to only show the downloads for the most recent version of the book. We have corrected this, and the download count on the book details page now shows the full download history of a book, including all revisions. Anyone with a book that they have updated or made changes on should now see a download count number that is higher. In some cases significantly higher.
4. There have been a few minor adjustments to some back-end reporting tools for us site administrators, letting us do things like add ISBNs and resend Terms of Contribution emails on books which seem to be pending acceptance of the ToC. This should help streamline publishing, and ease the lag time on books with multiple creators involved.

Labels: features, news