An author's letters by e-mail: subscribing, replying, unsubscribing
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Following an author puts their Journal in your feed. Subscribing sends you their letters as full e-mails as well, with the author's name and mark and one button back to the letter on Booklabria, where you answer it in the comments. Subscribing is one explicit checkbox per author that says the author can export your e-mail address; unsubscribe is one click in every letter, and from then on the author's export leaves you out. Followers who never ticked the box are never exported.
The short answer
Following and subscribing are two things
Following an author puts their Journal entries in your Following feed and, if you choose, an alert under the bell. Subscribing sends their letters to your inbox as well: the full letter, as an e-mail, with the author's name and mark, the text as they wrote it, and one button back to the letter on Booklabria.
You subscribe with one checkbox, on the author's page or in the follow sheet: Also send me Ana Reyes's letters by e-mail. The author can export your e-mail address. That sentence is the whole deal. Untick it, or unsubscribe from any letter, and it is undone.
What the author gets
- Your e-mail address, in an export they can take at any time, together with everyone else who ticked the box.
- Whether the letter was opened and read, as counts on their side, never as a list of who read what.
- Followers who did not tick the box are never exported. Following alone gives an author nothing but a number.
- Following never sends you an author's letters; the box does. A follow can still bring you the short notice that an author posted, if your own notification preferences ask for it and your digest is off. That notice is Booklabria writing to you about a post; a letter is the author's own words, in full, and only the box starts those.
Replying
To answer a letter, press its button and comment under it on Booklabria, under your name, visible as any comment is. Replies by e-mail are not open yet: a reply to the e-mail itself comes to Booklabria, not to the author, and is never published. The letter's own footer says the same.
If the author has turned comments off on that letter, it cannot be answered.
Unsubscribing
Every letter carries an Unsubscribe link, and no login is needed. It opens a page that has changed nothing yet and says whose letters it is about; one button does it, and the page that follows offers Undo in case the link was pressed by accident. If your mail app shows its own Unsubscribe button at the top of the message, that one works too and takes you nowhere. Either way the author's export leaves you out from that moment, and you keep following unless you unfollow as well. Your subscriptions are listed under Settings › Notifications, each with Unsubscribe.
If your inbox turns the letters away
Mail comes back sometimes. If an address does not exist, or if two letters in a row fail to reach it, that address is paused: the author's letters stop going to it and the author sees only that a subscriber is paused, never why. A full mailbox does not do it, and neither does a letter that lands in spam.
If you mark one of an author's letters as spam, your mail app tells us and we stop sending you theirs. You stay following, and nothing is said to the author beyond their subscriber count changing.
Nobody writes to tell you about a paused address, because by then we have no way to reach you. If an author's letters stop arriving, check the address on your account under Settings › Account, then tick the box again on the author's page; ticking it clears the pause.
On the free plan
An author on the free Author plan sends the short notice you get today (the entry's title and a link), not the full letter. The full letter as an e-mail is part of the author's Creator plan and above; you do not see the difference until they upgrade.
Where this lives
Related
- Following, and what you are told: Follow authors (their pen name), readers and series; their news reaches your feed and the bell, grouped and switchable per author. Notifications live under the bell, everything can be marked read at once, and e-mail is a digest, never one message per event.
- Sharing your e-mail with an author: An author never gets your e-mail address from a follow, a request or a review. The one way is the checkbox beside Follow, "Also send me the author's letters by e-mail. The author can export your e-mail address." Tick it and the author's letters arrive in your inbox and your address is in the author's export; unsubscribe from any letter in one click, or under Settings › Notifications, and the next export leaves you out.
- The Author Journal: New entry opens the Journal composer with fourteen formats in four groups (General; Book and Story; Launch and ARC; Community), each asking only for what it needs, an audience (Public, Followers, Only me), an optional content note that hides the entry behind a spoiler warning, and a preview. Entries can be saved as drafts under Studio, Posts, and one can be pinned to your page.
- Notifications: in-app, e-mail, push and the digest: Four categories (Social, Books, Early copies, Account), three channels (in-app, e-mail, push), an e-mail digest that is off, daily or weekly, per-author alerts for the people you follow, and a timezone. Nothing is ever sent one e-mail per like.
- Who sees what: profile visibility: Settings › Privacy sets your whole profile to public, followers only or private, and your library, reading progress, activity and follower list each on their own. Your follow-through is a fifth setting: by default only the authors you request a copy from see it. Author pages are public by nature; what an author keeps private is the library and activity.
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