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Introducing the "Book" Item Type

Greetings Members,

We're very excited to release our newest item type:
         the Book

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:: Introducing the "Book" Item Type ::
Writing.Com is excited to release our newest item type: Book. This
latest improvement fills the gap in the portfolio options that are available
to our writers. Now an Author's entire novel or collection can be displayed as
whole Book, rather than in pieces.

The Book item replaces the existing Journal item type. (All existing Journals
will be automatically converted to Books.) Books have five (5) different
sub-type options:
         Collection, Journal, Novel, Novella, and Short Story.
Each sub-type has a specific purpose. "Collections" can house a variety
of works, such as poetry or articles, while a "Novel" holds its chapters within
it. All Books converted from Journals will be pre-set to the "Journal"
sub-type and can be changed by the author at any time.

The number of entries a Book can hold is based on its selected sub type.
For example, "Journals" can have up to 500 entries , while "Novels" can have
up to 100 entries. You can learn more about each of these new sub-types by
reading the following:
          Book Item Sub Types


The Book's "Entry Format" setting determines how the Book's entry listing
page will be displayed to visitors. Three new additions have been added to
the existing three options. These include: an Abridged Listing, a Table Of
Contents Format and an Entry Summary Format. For the complete details
on these new options, please see:
          Book Item Entry Formats

The Manage Book page is a new tool that allows an author to set the order
of the entries within a book. Detailed information about each entry in the book
is conveniently listed in this section. The "Manage Book" link can be found
in an Author's Private Portfolio and in the "Your Item" line at the top of
the Book Item.

Books are regular items, just like Journals, and are stored in a member's
portfolio with an Item ID. The WritingML tag is still the "item" ML tag; entries
within books still use the "entry" ML tag.


The use of Books are limited by Membership type.
          Upgraded Members can create and house up to 10 Books.
          Premium Members can create and hold up to 25 Books.

Book items have a maximum size of 2 Megabytes (2,048k). Once a book
reaches the maximum size or maximum number of entries, it is considered full
and a new Book would need to be created to add new entries. Information on
the size of a particular Book and its individual entries can be found within
the "Manage Book" tool.

This change is brand new, so there may be some bugs here and there. If you
find anything that appears to be working incorrectly, please post in:

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:: Extension For Grandfathered Free Accounts ::
On May 15th we announced some changes to our Free Membership, including
a reduction in items to a maximum of 5. For full details please see:
         "Important Changes To Our Membership Plans" 
While the Grandfather period for pre-existing free memberships has elapsed,
we have decided to extend the Grandfather Period. The new grace period will
expire November 15th, 2003.


:: ** Please Remember To Update Email Addresses! ** ::
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This will, for the most part, remove a lot of the SPAM being sent to our servers.

To ensure yourself a smooth transition, it is important that you update your
contact information anywhere you are still using a Stories.Com email address
before the service is turned of. (For our newer members: We changed our
address from Stories.Com to Writing.Com 1/1/03... this note is only intended
for members with accounts started under our Stories.Com domain name.)


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