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Originally Posted by GA Russell
gmw, my understand of POD (print on demand) publications by self-publishing authors is that they are easily revised.
Your post suggests to me that you have the old mindset that once a book goes to the printer, that's it until the second edition comes out.
But in the new reality, you are free to upgrade the versions of your book as often as you like.
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Yep. Some of the books I've bought through Smashwords are like that. Wesley Allison has done some 7 edits of "His Robot Wife" since it's original posting presumably to clear up mistakes that were missed or conversion problems from Smashwords Meatgrinder and it was originally published in Feb. of 2011. He couldn't have done that with traditional publishing I imagine. There would have been several print runs probably before he was able to get any corrections made. And traditional publishing wasn't and isn't always free of mistakes either. Just look at the history of publication for Lord of the Rings if you want an example. Plenty of errors have popped up time and again and even crossed the bridge into the ebook version I understand.