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Originally Posted by suelange
"they can download again: it's not a "non-recoverable download link."
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By "non-recoverable download link" I didn't mean that people couldn't download again, as that's stated right on the site. I meant that people only got the single link in one particular email message associated with their purchase, and if they ever lost that particular email message, then they would not be able to download their purchase again, even if the system allowed them to, much less get a message with the old download link sent to the email on record.
Which is again something the new site warns about, that you have to take particular care to preserve that particular email message associated with said purchase.
This is something of a step down from the old website where you could just login and re-download your books if you ever needed to, without digging through your email archives (assuming nothing got lost/accidentally deleted in the meantime). Also, since none of the purchases seem to be linked in any way, it brings up the possibility of accidentally re-buying books you've bought before (which is something I've done in paperback, but at least I got a second copy I could pass around or re-sell).
Anyway, thanks again for your response and for considering putting up more online shorts. I did notice the Free Fiction section, which is nice, but not as well organized as the old site's Bookshelf for each author, IMHO, which provided a ready one-stop place for the author's biography and online stories as well as their purchaseable e-books that could both be browsed at more-or-less the same time.
Some full-length sample stories that could serve as teasers for the collections/anthologies seem to only be linked to from the pages for those books instead of being added to a centralized or author-oriented page where people looking for a particular genre/writer could see them easily and know there was an associated book that could be bought.
And, though there's probably nothing that can be done about this because of the way that WordPress arranges posts by date, it can be hard to find an author's single free story from their page amidst a dozen other items, and it might possibly be difficult in the future to see that there were more stories in the Free Fiction section if they did indeed get added.
I actually went over the Fantasy and Science Fiction categories a couple of times wondering why they weren't larger, before I realized there was a tiny "more stuff" link to a second page at the very bottom.
Perhaps a link right under the bio could be added to each author's page directing people to a page which collected any full-length sample or outright free stories, and perhaps add genre/length subcategories for the Free Fiction section like currently there are for the Short Stories if there's eventually enough to merit them inside?