This week we have banned over 50 books reported as copyright infringement. It is time consuming for us to find out whether the contents uploaded to our system are legally appropriate or not. Therefore, we are going to apply temporary banning to any user account that has copyright infringing contents as first time warning. Should the user is reported to continue uploading such contents, a permanent banning will be applied.

Starting from next week we will take this issue more seriously. We are relying on the whole community to help us monitoring the site’s contents. The “Report” button would be a helpful feature for you to inform us about inappropriate contents. We are working hard to bring you the best reading experience and social features of online comic books. And we will act immediately upon any report or feedback we receive.

Hello! You can now select the following options for your books before uploading them as well as modifying later in ‘My account’ page:

• Set as “private” : private books cannot be found by other users through any search result, related book suggestion or the Bookshelf (Profile) of the users who uploaded those contents. If you want to read a private book, you’ll have to know the link of it. If you have uploaded some books that you only want to share with certain people, set them as “private”.
• Set as “not suitable for everyone” : if you have uploaded some books that have certain amount of mature content or might offense someone (but are not really violating MahShelf terms of use)…  set them as “not suitable for everyone”. When other users open these books, they will be notified with a warning message and required to Confirm that they really want to read the books regardless of the consequences.
• Disable commenting : Don’t want others commenting on your books? Chose this option.
• Disable rating : Don’t want others rating your books? Choose this option.

Some of you might have noticed the change of our ‘Flash reader’ recently. Indeed, we are testing the new reading application, which will make it most pleasant for you to read digital comics and books online. Summer is here! Have fun everybody

Kelvin