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As you know, Alfa Ebooks Manager allows to update book data from most popular book sites, including Amazon, Google Books, Barnes&Noble, Oreilly and some others.

Now we want to expand this list first of all by national non-English book stores. Please let us know the most popular book site in your country and we'll create the integration plug-in, so that you could update book data from there.

Please use our Google Moderator suggest box (Google account needed) to submit or vote for already submitted book sites. Or if you don't have a Google account, you can leave the book site in comments to this post.

We are happy to announce the new update - Alfa Ebooks Manager 1.9. It's not so revolutionary as the previous one but includes a lot of small improvements, requested by our customers. Besides, with this update we start adding new design themes, so that the software could better fit your style. The first is DARK THEME. Yes, it's back!

Here is the list of main new features:

- Dark Theme (you can set it in Options)
- Multiple books selection using Shift (like in GMail)
- Automated book site plug-in update
- Duplicates control (the new item in the sidebar tree)
- Improved List View (more smooth scrolling, description alignment)
- Improved Thumbnail View (more smooth scrolling, search as you type)
- Improved Book Properties window design
- Web Update Options
- Book double-click options (now you can select to open Book Properties, Book File, 3D Book)
- Autoload last opened database
- Improved File Manager (now it prevents duplicates and file overwriting)
- Export books to CSV

All existing users of 0.7 version or higher can update for v.1.9 for FREE. Shortly you'll get an email with personal download link. If you are an existing customer and haven't received the update email, please contact support@alfaebooks.com and inform your name and Order #.

If you like this update, please press the Like button in the left column :)

We really like to talk to our customers and always reply to questions that you send us. But we also need some time to develop new features in Alfa Ebooks Manager. That's why we created the Online Help, that's available in the Support section. There you can find answers to most questions about the software that are usually replied by our support.

We will be constantly updating this Online Help basing on your feedback and you'll be able to access it from software's Help menu.

We have received a lot of positive feedback during the beta testing and finally we are happy to announce the official release of the new Alfa Ebooks Manager 1.8. We hope, you'll love it and appreciate your support.

Here is the final list of new features:

- New user interface
- Improved software performance
- Table View
- Classic View with author pics
- New Thumbnail views: Detailed, Volume, Bookshelf
- Improved 3D book view
- Customizable thumbnail size
- New Scan tool
- File Manager
- Retrieve ISBN tool
- LRF, FB2, EPUB support
- Add Books from the Web
- Batch book web-update
- Google Images integration
- Improved Statistics and Reports
- Favorites section
- Full Screen e-Library View

If you use Alfa Ebooks Manager 0.7.5 you can get the next version 1.8 for free. Please contact support and provide your Name and Order #.

Thanks for all, who is taking part in the AlfaEbooks Manager 1.8 beta testing. We have fixed some issues and added some new features requested by beta-testers. In particular, we have added the batch Web Update tool, so you will be able to update multiple books from the Web by ISBN.

We have built the new AlfaEbooks Manager 1.8 demo. It's available for download here. It comes with the sample e-library database. We invite you to test it, and you can still get the free license.

All existing users, who purchased the software license earlier, please test the demo version with the sample database, and if it works fine, please send your name and Order ID to support@alfaebooks.com and we'll provide you the working version of AlfaEbooks Manager 1.8.

And don't forget that you need .NET framework 3.5 SP1 installed.

At last we are ready to introduce the new version of AlfaEbooks Manager. It's really the new generation of our software, so we decided to increase the version number by one level: from 0.7.5 to 1.8. We have implemented a lot of new features and dramatically improved the software performance. Here are some tips:

- The new Table View with multiple sort and filter options - ideal for searching and organizing books
- The new scalable List and Thumbnail views that are perfect for e-library browsing and demonstrating
- Improved 3D and Wall views - your friends will be really impressed :)
- Customizable thumbnail size - make them as large, as you want
- The new straightforward Scan tool, that works faster and can parse ebook metadata
- File Manager that allows to copy, move and rename ebook files
- The new Retrieve ISBN tool that supports PDF, LRF, FB2, CHM
- The new Web Update tool that can be used to add books from the book sites
- Google Images integration that allows you quickly update book covers, author pics and other images in the e-Library
- and more...

And now about the free licenses. Those users, who find 10 bugs in the new version until the official release - will get the software license for free. Please, send your bug lists to support@alfaebooks.com. Your not-very-difficult feature requests are also welcomed.

So here is the download link. There is no setup, so just unzip the software archive to any folder. The preview version is limited to 100 books. You need to have .NET framework 3.5 SP1 installed.

We are happy to announce the special Christmas Edition of Alfa Ebooks Manager . It provides the same functionality as the regular version, but it's 25% cheaper! Just enter the coupon code "newyear2010" when ordering and get 25% discount. Yes, the coolest book manager, AEM, will cost you only $14.96.

But, hurry up! This fairy tale will finish on January 03, 2010.

If your are waiting for the new AEM version release - don't worry, you will be able to upgrade the Christam Edition for free.

Happy Holidays!

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UPDATE: For Shareit orders, please, use this link without entering the coupon code.

Ok, in January we are going to unveil the new major release of Alfa Ebooks Manager. During the last two months we were collecting your feedback and requests and now we can exactly list the new features and changes in the next version of our ebook organizer. One of the most important new features will be new Scan tool, that scans your folders for ebook files and adds them to the database. It will become really powerful and easy to use.

Besides, we decided to create a separate tool for ebook files management. In the current version the Scan tool is used for mass moving, backuping and renaming ebook files, and we replied hundreds of support requests, explaining users, how they can perform all these actions with the Scan tool. We hope that the separate File Manager will make everything clear and our support will relax.

One more highly requested feature is simple table view without book thumbnails. We admit that we were too focused on rich library views (that look very well when you show your library to your friends) and forget about the simple table view (that is more suitable when you are managing your e-library).

The other new features include:
- Book cover search on Google Images
- Sony Reader format support
- BibTeX file format support
- Books table import
- New plugins
- Extended book search

And, of course, we will fix all the bugs that where reported by our users during the past two months.

Like any popular program, Alfa Ebooks Manager has the cracked version. But unlike most cases when it's possible to use cracked software, our ebook organizer has the perfect anti-hacker protection. Here are the 3 top reasons of why you shouldn't install the hacked version.

1. The other day one of our most active customers reported that he found the cracked AEM version that was distributed with the Spyware agent. And we realized that as Alfa Ebooks Manager needs internet connection to retrieve book information from web-sites, our users allow it to pass through firewall. And it's a perfect opportunity for hackers to embed malware and send your confidential data to the internet. It's our duty to notify you about this danger.

2. On most book-sites that the AEM book manager uses to retrieve book data we use our personal partner accounts. And from time to time we change the authentication data, so that cracked versions stop getting book data from the internet. So the cracked version works only 2-3 months.

3. These customers, that don't have a record in our customer base can't update their software, order the custom book-site plugins and get our support to solve the problems if they appear.