Why we exist...
Chris saw this cartoon in last week's Wall Street Journal. It's precisely why we founded this company.
No slag to the eBay buyers of the world but perhaps our new slogan should be "No more empty rooms!"
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Chris saw this cartoon in last week's Wall Street Journal. It's precisely why we founded this company.
No slag to the eBay buyers of the world but perhaps our new slogan should be "No more empty rooms!"
New this week:
• A bug that didn't show BookTour stories for certain authors has been fixed.
• A bug that caused parts of the Stories page to sometimes appear blank has been fixed.
• All known bugs have been fixed with the Search feature. Work continues on speed and accuracy, but error pages should no longer appear.
The past few days have brought a number of improvements:
• The "nearby events" section of the front page now loads much faster. For certain postal codes, the improvement is as much as 15x.
• Profile pages have been improved. Authors can now choose between which portion of their Profile pages to look at: the author-editing section (the default) or the individual-settings section. In addition, spacing issues have been fixed.
• The Stories page has been redesigned.
• The FAQ has been updated.
• A Section of the site for UK authors has been added.
Don't look now but BookTour.com was the recipient of not one, but two sunbursts of love this past weekend.
First up, the New York Times: Reporter Kara Jesella featured us in an article titled "The Author Will Take Q.’s Now" on the importance of online media in book touring. She included our sevice as an example of the new electronic offerings for authors and publicists. Arleady, we've been hearing from friends and well wishers around the globe. With the fall publishing season kicking in, we're hoping to see a new crop of publishers and their books up on the site.
Second, Adam and I were interviewed by the inimitable Dr. Moira Gunn on her show Tech Nation. Tech Nation has been around since the early days of the internet so we got to sit in the same chairs once occupied by giants like Google's Sergey Brin and Larry Page and Yahoo's Jerry Yang and David Filo.
Let's hope some of the good juju rubbed off.
Click here if you're curious what Adam and I sound like. We come in about 3/4 of the way through on the little slidy thing.
Let the love reign, ya'll.
