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Site Updates – Sep 2014
20th September 2014 You may notice that bookangel.co.uk is getting a few new features and updates between now and October. When bookangel.co.uk was originally built, it was our club site. We expected...
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Site Updates – 7th Oct 2014
7th October 2014 We have made substantial changes to the site in the past few weeks. Several new features are now available: Sponsor the Site – a $5 feature for one book a week to promote the site...
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Site Updates 14th Dec
14th December We have made several updates to the site, including fixing a glitch with cover images that hide them on certain browsers, releasing our reviews in a free monthly magazine, and working on...
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ANNOUNCEMENT – Newspaper Feature
16th December 2014 ANNOUNCEMENT – We have made arrangements with a local newspaper to show 3-5 of our reviews per month. With a readership estimated at 45,000, we hope this will give books a chance to...
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Email Announcement: New “Books by Genre” Email
16th January 2015 We’re now sending our emails through Sendgrid, as the bandwidth was a little much for our servers. With this extra infrastructure, we have added a new “Books by Genre” daily email. By...
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Newspaper Review Column out
The Caterham and District Independent newspaper, February edition, no. 105, came out yesterday and we got our copies this morning. As you can imagine, the club was buzzing, and certain out of area...
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March 2015 Newspaper Column
We have submitted the newspaper reviews for March to the paper. This month, like last month we managed to fit five reviews in, and the authors have been emailed so they have some warning before the...
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Site Updates and traffic – Feb 2015
We’ve added a new feature to the site: a little orange box on the content pages where users can vote on content. Users can now click an Up or Down button on a book’s page if they think the book is...
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Mobiles and Our New App
Our first seven days of user data have come back, and it has certainly been intriguing. We honestly did not have any idea how many people were hitting the site with mobiles. Now the site is not really...
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Server issues and a major planned update
For the last couple of days the site has been erratic. We would like to apologise to all our readers for any inconvenience, and to the authors who notified us that they could not submit their books. If...
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March Newspaper Column out!
This morning we received our copy of the Caterham and District Independent for March 2015, with our second reviews column. We’re in the same place at the top of p6, so it should be easy for readers to...
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New Server
In the last week of February, for the first time since the site went live, we experienced downtime. This was due to issues with our webhost, and required some assistance from a local IT firm to get it...
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Advertising
You might have noticed we’ve revised our advertising page. Unfortunately, while the new server is wonderful and fast and many other good things, it is also cutting into club funds and the site needs to...
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Advertising Update
Because of VATMOSS rules we’ve confirmed we cannot offer the sponsored book feature after June, or run OIO Publisher. As you can imagine this will cut the site’s funding a great deal. Basically UK...
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Advertising and site changes
Good news: We’ve been accepted by the Riot Ad Network! As a network focusing on readers, the ads should be more relevant to visitors, but it should also give us a bit more stability – and a bit more...
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April Newspaper Reviews
The April newspaper reviews are out. This month we are on the top corner of page 5, so don’t look in the normal place. We’ve featured five books this month. “Anna” by Joseph McCluskey (Thriller)...
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Newspaper for May out
The Caterham and District Independent for May has been released. This month we’re on page 4 at the bottom. The books featured are: “A Horse called September” by Anne Digby (Childrens/YA) “Rhapsody in...
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Newsletter revision
Due to the increasing number of subscribers and our email limits, we are going to have to make a change to the emails. From now on if a user hasn’t opened the Personalised Free eBooks email in three...
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EU VAT, the problems, and what you can do
The new EU Vat laws are causing a significant problem for authors, artists, and many other small businesses including unfortunately, this website. Basically if you sell to EU consumers you have to pay...
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June Newspaper Reviews
The Caterham and District Independent for June has been released. This month we’re on page 4 at the bottom. The books featured are: “Tall Tales from a Short Buying Agent” by Tracey Kellett (Memoirs)...
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