Throwback Thursday: Bookstore

Greetings, Prosers,

It is that time of the week again, and we’ve got some updates coming your way.

First up, Tuesday saw the latest iOS update and with it brought the long-awaited Bookstore and your very own library.

Since then, the Bookstore has become LIVE on the web. That’s right, all that wordporn is now available on your desktop and mobile browsers.

The Prose Coin system is coming very soon and that will enable Prose Partners to sell their books as a whole, per chapter, or even to their subscribers, which is a brand new feature we will be rolling out over the coming weeks. (More on all of this in future blog pieces.)

We have just submitted a bunch of bug fixes to Apple as a matter of urgency as we know there were some pesky critters we missed whilst testing. The biggest ones we have heard about from you guys are the lack of tags being blue (even though they worked, it seems), and the weird commenting glitch that meant if you were tagged in a comment, you couldn’t see the post it pertained to. That is now fixed and will be coming your way as soon as Apple approve our update.

The next development schedule is nailed down and you should be seeing regular updates from now on. We have put a lot of effort into streamlining our code to make updating easier and things should be a breeze from now on. We aren’t going to ruin the surprise by telling you what we are up to with the updates, but you guys are going to LOVE it.

The Bookstore’s launch marks a huge milestone for us. We have been talking about, and working on this for almost a year. The Bookstore needs a lot of refining, including reviews, a bookmarking system, and a better sorting function, but we are finally able to share our hard work with you. It takes a lot of planning and coding to make something like this, and as a team we would like to thank you all for being a part of our growth.

As always, we will keep you informed and updated with all the latest news from behind the screens here at Prose. In the meantime, if you have suggestions or requests, pop us an email or a direct message; we consider every single request you guys make.

Get writing those books, get reading them, too.

Until next time, Prosers,

Prose.