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Originally Posted by ATDrake
At this point I'd just stop buying from those particular authors, on the unflattering assumption that if they're not bright enough to figure out how to update their existing book that they want me to spend money on so I don't have to buy a completely new edition to read it as it should be read, without those "value"-added errors and all, then they're not bright enough to write a book I want to pay money to read in the first place.
That is also assuming that they don't secretly believe that you should pay more money to get a different version of their book in the first place, like you were buying a 2nd edition of a paperback or whatever.
ETA: My complaint is people yanking existing stuff for KDP Select exclusivity.
New works, fine, exclusivize all you like.
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I thought of emailing the authors and telling them how I feel about it.
I get that authors are new to digital books and they slowly are improving the quality as they learn but to make me pay says 3.99 for plain text with so many errors and then put a real copy elsewhere later is just saying to me they don't care about the reader just them money I give them.
You can't always tell from the sample the problems the actually book has and Smashwords will not refund your money which is another reason I no longer buy from them.
The KDP Select program is probably why they were pulled. The only good thing is getting the freebies from it but I'd love to see updated copies of the books I brought if they ever decided to return.