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New StatReport Feature: Detailed User Reports!

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:43:31 -0800

In response to a client request, we've just rolled out one of the most exciting new features in the history of StatReport -- Detailed User Reports!

This new report generates a pdf containing all of the data about every user who has registered for an eBook -- including their registration info, what pages they viewed, and what links they clicked. You have to see it to believe it. If you're currently a client, just go into StatReport and you'll see a new box under the Visitors and Visits report. Just click on the PDF link next to Mass User Detail Report, and a PDF will be created in real-time.

Announcing Digital Edition Page Tracking

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:00:38 -0700

Our StatReport programmer wizards have been working around the clock and have come up with a great new feature for us to announce to you today!

Effective immediately, all of our digital editions have Page Tracking enabled. What this means for you is that you can now view how many times each page of your digital edition has been viewed, the average view length, AND who viewed it.

This feature has been standard in our custom eBooks for years, but we are now very excited to be able to bring it to our digital edition customers as well--at no additional cost!

In the near future, we'll be rolling out additional metrics based on page views. These include: click paths, session length, and more!

New Version of StatReport for Digital Editions Coming Soon!

Fri, 29 May 2009 16:59:39 -0700

Minnick Web Services' eBook product development team is working on a new version of StatReport that will be specific to reporting on visitors and subscribers to our new digital editions. We're putting the finishing touches on the new system now. Look for it in the coming weeks!

New Statreport Feature: Single eBook Access

Fri, 01 May 2009 16:20:06 -0700

It's now possible to give a user access to individual eBooks in StatReport! This is useful if you want to give an advertiser access to view the registrants and stats for their eBooks only. Contact your eBook project manager to find out more!

Drop Down "[more ebooks]" Link

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 16:31:48 -0700

The front page of StatReport displays a list of ebooks for each ebook family.

The following change will soon be released in StatReport:

If an ebook family has more than 4 ebooks, the link "[more ebooks]" will appear after the fourth ebook. When you click on this link, the rest of the ebooks in the family will appear. The link will then turn into "[less ebooks]". When that is pressed the list shrinks to the original size.

This change will make long lists of ebooks much more managable and make the page load faster.

A separate change that recently occurred is the added [view] link that has been added to the list of ebooks on the front page. These link to where a specific ebook is on the web.

Dynamic Templates?

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:08:13 -0700

Every ebook has a landing page or a registration page. These pages are integrated into the sites they are part of. These pages are served by an ebookhost web server.

The ebook registration/landing pages are designed to look and be a part of websites.

For instance the ebooks on the techlearning.com website all have the design of the techlearning website, but if you look at the URL of a techlearning ebook registration page and compare it to other techlearning webpages, you will see that the ebook URLs are a lot different. Here's a techlearning ebook registration page URL: http://newbay.ebookhost.net/tl/atomic/1/ and here is a regular techlearning webpage URL: http://techlearning.com/content/epubs/index.php

Better Reporting With Dates

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:22:03 -0700

Recently, at the request of a customer, registration dates were added to ebook reports. Now when you generate a report of all users for a specific ebook using StatReport, included in the data is the date each user registered or first gained access to that ebook.

These reports are also now automatically sorted by user-registration date. Newest users at the top.

Stamping Out Bugs in StatReport

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:38:39 -0700

Along with eBooks, comes StatReport, which is a data collection, reporting and statistics system for eBooks. StatReport provides all kinds of data about ebooks, like how many people have registered to see any ebook, the number of page views of each ebook page/spread, how many times an ebook has been opened etc.

Recently some bugs were fixed in StatReport.
Here's a list of them:

Some eProofer links were broken. All of them were fixed today.
Generating a report in excel providing all REO registered ebook users was broken. It was a setting in an underlying script setting the wrong amount of memory to be used. Fixed yesterday.

Nick Mudge - eBookHost Programmer

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:25:31 -0700

Introduction:

My name is Nick Mudge. I work at Minnick Web Services, primary working on eBookhost software, fixing bugs, adding features, answering people's questions about the software etc.

So if you have any questions or suggestions or notice anything that should be improved or fixed, or just want to tell me something, than here's my email address: nick@minnickweb.com, or leave a comment on this blog.

New Statreport Feature: Inbound Link Tracking

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:47:39 -0700

New Feature: Inbound Link Tracking
What it is: Records and reports the sources of inbound links
How does it work: Simply append "?linkcode=[yourlinkname]" to an inbound link to your ebook. For example, if your eBook is at http://demo.ebookhost.net/demo/ebook/1/, you could track an inbound link from an email by linking to it using http://demo.ebookhost.net/demo/ebook/1/?linkcode=emaillink. Track as many different links as you like!
Benefit to the customer: Allows you to see how people are getting to your eBook.

Minnick Web Services Reports eBook Sales Increase in 2006

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:53:14 -0800

Web site and electronic publication service provider Minnick Web Services (MWS) increased eBook sales by 84 percent in 2006. eBook hosting sales also increased in 2006, by 91 percent.

"Our substantial increase in eBook sales in 2006 shows that electronic publications are maturing into an integral part of the publishing world. It’s still a new format that a minority of publishers are using, but it is becoming more widespread and accepted," said CEO Christopher J. Minnick.

Unlike other digital magazine producers, Minnick Web Services doesn't simply convert a printed magazine to an online format. MWS works with the publishing team to create a custom product that's designed to be read online, doesn't require scrolling, and has an extremely simple user interface.

Announcing eLauncher!

Fri, 03 Nov 2006 15:32:32 -0800

Now MinnickWeb clients can watch the status of their projects as they progress from the beginning stages to completion, in one handy, informative page. This new, free service improves communication, and allows our clients to launch their eBooks whenever they desire. Ask about eLauncher for your next project!

eBookHost Update - October 6, 2006

Fri, 06 Oct 2006 14:37:33 -0700

First of all, Margaret and I will be attending the Folio Show in New York October 23-25. If you'd like to schedule a meeting with us during that time, please email or call me. Many of our clients are in the NY area, and many others will be in town for Folio that week. We're hoping to get a chance to visit with as many of you as possible.

In other news: we're continuing to roll out new features for the eBookhost system. The biggest changes have been to the tools we use to produce eBooks. These improvements have made it possible for us to produce more eBooks in the last 2 months than in the 6 months prior to that.

eBookHost Update - Aug 4

Fri, 04 Aug 2006 10:28:56 -0700

This week, we rolled out a few new reports for you to become familiar with and love!

1. Clickthrough ratio: in the Clickthrough report, we're now calculating the ratio of Clicks to visitors for each ad.

2. Page view time! In the page view report, you can now see how many seconds, on average, people spent on each page spread.

3. Engagement Factor. We used the formula: (visits/visitors)*duration to compute an Engagement Factor (EF). Engagement is one of those things where no one has really come up with a standard definition yet, but I read about this formula somewhere and it seems useful as a gauge of how valuable people find each page. This is displayed (along with a cool graph) in the page view report.

eBookHost Update - July 28

Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:04:34 -0700

Last week's eProofer press release got quite a bit of attention. The story was posted on AJAX World, printondemand.com, jaxmag, The Daily Dog, nextwebgen.com, and a lot of other places. The people who have emailed me with questions and comments are confirming my belief that there's a real need for a better way to proof digital publications.

Have you used eProofer? Do you have suggestions or ideas for how it could be made better? Please send me an email or post a comment!