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Hi! I have a genuine active coupon for a bundle, When I click on the link, it'll apply the coupon but pops up a yellow window indicating the coupon is not valid, which could confuse buyers.

It happened on the slug itstrategybundle with the coupon code elevator35.

Thank you!

Hi,

has anyone else had a reader message like this? There doesn't appear to be a "Top 10 Featured Discussion Slots" as part of The Seasonal Reading Challenge , and the whole thing smells a bit like a dodgy promotional scam to me.

Hello Sean,

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Hi,

Could I pay for author memberships with PayPal?

Hi there,

I have a technical + marketing background and I run my own servers, and agent runtimes, adhering to A2A protocols.

I wanted to drop by and check if anyone here in the author forum has developed or interested in developing an AI assisted workflow for writing, editing, publishing, markeitng and monitoring e-books?

would love to hear from you!

As a follow-up to my previous post:

Where can I edit/se up the Dropbox connection? I can't find it anymore. 😱

When I check the set-up in Dropbox, I see two accounts for the corresponding Dropbox folder (see attached image).

But where can I find the corresponding setting in LeanPub?

It seems that tables with both width and column-width attributes ignore both attributes, unless I am doing something entire wrong. I am pretty sure this used to work and I did not change the tables. Example:

{ width: 100%, column-widths: "25% 25% 50%"}
| Characteristic  | Perceived Opposite  | Enabling Mechanism |

If I only specify width, the width renders as specified.

I can probably get by for now by removing column-widths, but it'd be great if someone can check. Thank you!

I had not regenerated Platform Strategy in a while, but I fixed a few typos and references. When generating a print-ready PDF, I found that picture vertical spacing has substantially increased. I agree that it looks better, but it causes page breaks to reset, which'd be a lot of work to fix. I set the Figure Vertical Margin to 0 , but it's still bigger than before. Is there a way to have the original narrow margins back for compatibility?

I attached old and new pictures.

I have a footnote reference in a subheading. It used to work fine, but now it's being rendered in the subheading. Source is:

### Why buy it when you can build it?[^using_joke]

Result is attached. Any chance to fix this?