Hello clients, partners and friends,

Summer 2009 is quickly drawing to a close — can you believe it? Happily, the end of summer seems to be bringing an uptick in activity here at Minnick Web Services. We've got a bunch of new eBook features to announce — and don't forget about our special deal for new eBook clients, available until September 30!

New eBook Features

If you've logged into our StatReport interface recently, you may have noticed a few improvements and new features. If you haven't seen them yet, let me tell you about a couple of them!

1. Number of Visits on the main eBook list page: When you first log into StatReport, you see a list of eBooks. Previously, this report only showed the number of *registered* users. We added a new column called 'Visits', which gives you an easy way to compare the total number of *visits* from one eBook to another.

2. Visit Duration Report: Located under the Page View Report, this new report shows you the average length of a visit to the eBook. If you click on the average duration, you can see each actual visit along with its duration.

3. Extreme User Detail: A new report coming soon is the User Detail Report, which shows demographic information and user behavior for individual users (click-throughs and page views) in one report. We are actively working on this, and it will go live soon!

If you're new to eBooks, you can find out more about them by visiting http://minnickweb.com/ebooks or contacting Dave Kalman at dkalman@terrella.com. And don't miss our special offer below:

Hot August eBooks: One-time Incentive for New eBook Clients

If your publication, Web site, or company has never worked with us on an eBook, contact me *now* and we'll create one for you at no cost.

You can use this eBook for whatever purpose you want — sell it to a sponsor, use it as a sales tool, or just use it as a free chance to find out how easy and smooth the production process is. We've never offered to do this before, but the time is right to kick things into high gear and get our eBook production people working overtime.

Call me or Chris or Dave at (916) 551-1453 to get started or for more information.

This offer is available through September 30, 2009.

Meet Chris, Margaret & Dave Live and In Person at the
Niche Digital Conference

Minnick Web Services is a sponsor of the upcoming Niche Digital Conference, which will be held September 21-22 in Minneapolis. If you're interested in digital media, I highly recommend that you attend. The format of Niche Media's conferences provide for a lot of networking, learning, and fun!

Our very own CEO, Chris, will be joining a panel of representatives from digital edition producers on a roundtable discussion of the future of digital editions. Dave and I will also be there, and we'll have fun giveaways and lots of tips on how to transition your magazine to the Web at our table in the sponsor area.

Best wishes. We hope that autumn 2009 is happy and successful for you!

— Margaret Minnick