[Wenn]

Hi-thanks for notifying of the 50% off sale--since the price was right, I just purchased 3 books yesterday by authors I had been wanting to try for a while. I thought I might even purchase a couple more today, and searching through your site again just now is what prompted this post: If you're sincere about welcoming user feedback, please seriously consider Ea's advice in the above posts.

Unfortunately, as Ea noted, pages with multiple are slow to load due to the large book covers. While I like seeing the covers there since they help me recognize books I've seen & wanted to read, they could be made smaller. Also, to echo Ea, it would be great if the price (with sale marked next to it in red, if such a thing should apply) and the available file formats were also shown under the book cover. It would be great to even take this a step future by listing copyright date of the book so the reader knows when it came out, perhaps the publisher of the book as well, and if the name of the series underneath the title (as well as the sequence number of the series) if that book is part of a series. (Oddly, you do this with a few books not not many and not even all books within the same series. For instance, you mark "Bloody Bones" by Laurell K Hamiliton as being "Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter 5" but nothing is indicated her "The Killing Dance," which is also an Anita Blake novel.)

Also, it isn't clear to me how the books are presented when doing searches for the different categories, such as "Fantasy-General." How are these books being ordered? By bestselling? They don't appear to be arranged alphabetically by author's last name or book title. It would be very handy if the customer was presented a way of further ordering the books, such as by sorting by popularity, or lowest/highest price, author's last name, series, etc. If such a means already exists, my apologies, but it wasn't readily apparent to me that it did.

It would be nice, as well, if the customer had the option to chose how many books to display on a single page. I prefer to scroll down rather than keep hitting "next" and waiting for the next page to load--which takes a bit of time due to the size of the cover graphics, as mentioned previously.

Moreover, it would be nice if you offered a definition for all your various categories/subcategories somewhere--something to explain the different between "Fantasy-General" and "Fantasy-Epic" and so on. Sometimes it's easy to figure out, but a glossy would be nifty. Again, if it exists and I missed it, my apologies, but then it needs to be made easier to get to.

On final suggestion, on the same page where you provide the info on a book, it would be handy if you provided the author's name underneath the title and a link to a page with further books by that author. Sometimes, a particular book might intrigue me but I don't want to take a chance on purchasing a dud that may have a great summarizing blurb about it. So, I like to see what else that author has written. The way your site is set up, I have to type out the author's name into the search box. The way other sites (Fictionwise, for example) are set up, all you have to do is click on the author's name underneath the book title. That's more user friendly and convenient.

I hope these suggestions help. Thank you again for notifying us of your sale & while I signed up for your email notifications, I hope you will continue to MobileRead of any future promotions!