I’ve been talking about a full redesign on both Twitter and Facebook lately, and even published the first screenshots of the new design.

It’s time to explain why we’re working on a new design: to make Feedbooks easier to use through a simple and consistent layout.

The first thing that you’ll notice about our new global navigation is that we renamed the sections. “Discover” is renamed into “Public Domain” and “Share” into “Original Books”. While the books published in the “Public Domain” section are author-centric (points to a specific page with various metadata), the books published in “Original Books” are user-centric, and will point out directly to the profile of the user.

We’ll gradually introduce new interactions between readers and authors to make the promotion of a book much easier. You’ll notice that compared to the current design, comments, favorites and downloads are now highlighted a lot more to serve this purpose and new links to automatically post a book on Twitter/Facebook are now available.