Hi Maharg,

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. It was an oversight that has now been fixed. Now, if you opt out of book commenting, you opt out of bookstore and Facebook commenting as the way it was intended.

Again, thanks for feedback and your patience as we got this issue resolved.

– Kathy

Those Facebook comments seem to be back! A mistake again, or is it deliberate this time?

I’ve been told that the Facebook comments appear below every book, even if we’ve elected not to allow comments. That’s a shame. I was also told that as author of the book I can delete them if I want. Don’t I have to join Facebook to do this? Or did he mean that I could delete the whole book from Blurb’s bookstore? And do I have to monitor all my books on a regular basis to see whether any comments have been added?

The tech heads at Blurb must have been toiling long and hard, because those pesky Facebook comment panels are gone again. (At least until there’s another revamp of the website and someone stuffs up again …)

There’s still the "Like" buttons, but I can live with those. Just having done a random stroll through the bookstore, I notice that more than 90% of people allow comments anyway. So perhaps I’m paranoid. (And I’d only noticed one comment under one of my books, which happened to be extremely positive.)

Still, as Blurb offers us the right to be paranoid by electing whether to allow public comments, I will continue to be so.

Happy Christmas.

Hi beesong,

The Facebook commenting feature does not currently allow deleting of posts. We are looking into implementing this option should the Facebook commenting  plug-in support this.

To hide all posts modify your commenting options from your account info page.

Craig