Out of date titles featured

[frostyakf]

Sorry if this isn't the right place to post this, but I figured here was as good as any. Following the link "Books" on the left side of the Tokyopop webpage, underneath "Buy/Read Manga", you're taken to a listing of all of Tokyopop's titles. At the top it has a list of featured titles. My guess is you have some type of script going that just randomly takes titles from the list below and puts them up as featured. That's fine, but because it's an automatic process, it has some unintended results.

Titles such as "Shirahime-syo", "Gatekeepers" among others are being featured, even though they are out of print. I'm a fan of both of these titles to be honest, but I think it's kindof mean to feature them when they can no longer be purchased. My suggestion would be to eliminate the out of print titles from your catalog, or find a way to exclude them from being featured at the top with currently in print manga. Thanks!

~The Lone Wolf

[Andre]

Sorry if this isn't the right place to post this, but I figured here was as good as any. Following the link "Books" on the left side of the Tokyopop webpage, underneath "Buy/Read Manga", you're taken to a listing of all of Tokyopop's titles. At the top it has a list of featured titles. My guess is you have some type of script going that just randomly takes titles from the list below and puts them up as featured. That's fine, but because it's an automatic process, it has some unintended results.

Titles such as "Shirahime-syo", "Gatekeepers" among others are being featured, even though they are out of print. I'm a fan of both of these titles to be honest, but I think it's kindof mean to feature them when they can no longer be purchased. My suggestion would be to eliminate the out of print titles from your catalog, or find a way to exclude them from being featured at the top with currently in print manga. Thanks!

~The Lone Wolf

Actually, my comic shop just got Shirahime for me from Diamond Comics Distributors. These titles are out of print, but that doesn't mean that copies from the last couple print runs still aren't available from distributors if you know where to look.

I imagine with some of these titles, TP might be planning on reprinting them as well.
I figure it doesn't hurt to leave them up like that, even though you can't get them directly from TP anymore.

[Will]

Thanks for the note. And yes, we've been aware of this issue. Just been trying to get bigger things fixed first but we really only want to feature the newest/latest releases there and not simply everything randomly so.

We're working on it. :)

[PeterAhlstrom]

I think it would be nice to feature one oldish title at a time, but not ones that are OOP, of course. :)