The Book Country platform is now officially out of beta! Yay! Throughout the beta period, we've been reading your feedback and have been moved, saddened, and overjoyed at the reactions we've seen from you as we've worked to improve the site, fix bugs, and add features that matter most to you.

When you visit the Read & Review section of the site, you'll see that we've added a Book Country bookstore.

Next week, we will reinstate the ability to follow books and discussions.

In August, you'll see a news feed, similar to LinkedIn or Facebook, where you can easily keep track of the writers, books and discussions that are important to you.

We know we have more work ahead of us. We'll continue to fix the bugs you've reported just as we've been doing over the last few weeks. We've opened a new section of the discussion boards: General Feedback. There, we ask you to share your overall site feedback and report bugs.

On behalf of the entire Book Country team, thank you for caring so much about this site. If you need anything, please email me at brandi at bookcountry dot com, and I'll be happy to help you.