Dan, this may be the nerd in me speaking, but I was thinking that showing the standard deviation or some other measure of how uniform opinions are on works would be useful. Thanks, Dave

Chuckster,

We can help you out at Hijinx Comics. Email dan@hijinxcomics.com or call the store and we can help.

Dan Shahin
Hijinx Comics

Is it possible to order subscriptions through your site? (I would like to get, for example, several x-men titles a month) For those of us who have to drive a long way to get to a local shop, getting a shipment of books every month would be a god send.

Dan, I see that you rated the "DAREDEVIL BY FRANK MILLER AND KLAUS JANSON OMNIBUS" with one star. Is this a typo? Seems rather out of sync with your comments.

A buddy of mine was showing me a great new comic called Utopiates. I did a search but didnt find them listed. I would like to start picking them up, do you have them or know where I could buy them?

Thanks

snej, in response to /m37:

Thanks for the feedback. I've fixed the listing for the Book of Jim. If you can't find a book by title, try searching by isbn if you know it. You may be surprised at the results.

As for reviews and ratings, you don't have to write a review to rate a book, and you can always come back and add or edit reviews later.

Wishlists are coming very soon. They're the next feature I plan to implement, possibly tonight or tomorrow if I'm ambitious enough.

I'll look into displaying the publisher data, keep your eyes out for the changes. In the mean time, feel free to use the tagging functions to add any publisher info you'd like!

dan

This is a great site! Congratulations, Dan. A few random issues:

* Jim Woodring's "The Book Of Jim" (id=3865) is for some reason titled "A Sleepy Head Tale". (And where are his "Frank" collections? Can you possibly not have them in stock?!?!)
* The way that rating and reviewing are combined makes me reluctant to rate books if I'm not feeling up to writing a coherent review that moment. I gather that I _could_ leave the review blank, but I'm not sure if I could then come back later and write one; and the interface is definitely pressuring me into writing one. I bet you'd get more ratings if you separated the two (as Amazon does).
* Please show the publisher of the book. Some publishers are badges of quality (like Fantagraphics), and sometimes I'm just curious.
* If there were a wish-list, I'd have a half dozen books on it already, all set to buy sometime when I'm feeling impulsive. And! You could have the computer at the store all set up to print out customers' wish-lists on demand, for when they come in but can't remember the name of that one with the funny animals they were curious about...

Dan, another thought on your new entry screen and ordering system. I'm sure you are considering this, but it would be helpful to be able to refer people to Amazon for out of print TPB; I assume there is a way to do this and get a referral fee on the transaction. Alternatively, you could provide some modest guidance on where to look for out of print material.

Edited by author 01-20-2007 01:52 PM
Dan, another suggestion and reason to program to accept ASIN numbers also.

There are several CD-ROM and DVD packages of comicbooks out there, including the Marvel ComicBook Library, 40 Years Of The Amazing Spider-Man Win/Mac, 40 Years of The Avengers Comic Book Win/Mac, 44 Years of Fantastic Four, and 40 Years of the X-Men Collector's Edition Win/Mac [DVD].

These would all be a great resource for some kinds of fans and some kinds of libraries. With random access, extra features, and less wear and tear, these are very attractive to young people who are very computer literate today, etc.

These tend to have ASIN numbers.

Dave,

The random suggestions will return very soon. I know what's happening, and I appreciate the heads up.

dan

Dan, I've noticed that the Random Book Selections seems to be stuck on the same 2 suggestions.

Dan, I hate to be picky, but The Chronicles of Conan The Song of Red Sonja" is volume 4. Thanks, Dave

Dan, one more comment.

You might want to manually edit the titles of these Chronicles of Conan Volumes. As shown, they're not showing up with the "Chronicles of Conan" as part of the title:

Rogue in the House and other stories ("The Chronicles of Conan Vol 2: Rogues in The House and Other Stories")
The Monster of the Monoliths and other stories (Chronicles of Conan Vol 3)
The Song of Red Sonja and other stories (Chronicles of Conan Vol 4)
The Tower of the Elephant and other stories (Chronicles of Conan Vol 1)

I'm not sure why, but the titles from Amazon's info are correct for the later volumes.

Thanks, Dave

Dan, you might have to figure out how to accomodate books that have ASIN numbers and not ISBN. There are some classics out there that should be included with these (Like Richard Corben's Funny Book, for instance).

Dan, Amazon and others list two different "The Stars My Destination" graphic novels. I can't tell if they are the same thing or not. I have reviewed and rated the most likely ISBN/title, which shows up with the correct author, illustrator and cover and publisher.

The other one, listed as "ALFRED BESTER'S THE STARS MY DESTINATION. VOL 1: THE GRAPHIC STORY ADAPTATION. A" in your application, should probably be deleted. It may exist, but I can't tell and have never seen it. thanks, Dave

Dan, "The Assassin's Road" should be re-titled "Lone Wolf and Cub Vol 1: The Assassin's Road". While both are correct, this will help those searching for Lone Wolf & Cub. Thanks, Dave