How do I update my Universal Book Link?

Modified on Tue, 16 Jul, 2024 at 8:57 AM

You may need to rescan your links to get the latest information or stores to populate on your Universal Book Link (UBL).

To update your UBL click RESCAN FOR LINKS (found under Link Tools on each individual UBL). This will update your book cover, book title, and fetch any available new vendor links*.

*We support a lot of stores. Probably almost every store you can think of (and about a dozen you don’t even know about), but stores are often changing their link structures or trying to block our crawlers. If you find you have a link that won't "stick" feel free to write in to support@draft2digital.com and let our author support know that there may be an issue.

Step by step instructions:

You must be logged in to rescan links. Click on the book title you wish to update (in green text).

Example UI of the Books2Read dashboard. The green colored Book Title is a link that will take you to this book's UBL.

Next click RESCAN FOR LINKS found under the Link Tools "Rescan" section on the left side of the screen.

Example UI of a Books2Read UBL. The Link Tools can be found on the left-hand side of the page.

This will kick off several processes that crawl your reference link and then try to match your book at our supported stores. Any link you input is also verified before it saves. Depending on web traffic load, this process may take a while.