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Originally Posted by Blossom
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. |
It's difficult to distribute corrected copies. Amazon FINALLY has a way to do this, but it doesn't always work. It took me from January to May of this year to get Amazon to make an updated version of Sage available to people who had already bought it--and all I did to the story was add a story and illustrations.
The process isn't automated so there are about 3 steps and that involves SEVERAL emails to Amazon.
I'm not defending authors who don't bother or who don't know how to do it, but it is difficult and it's only the last year that doing an update was available at all. For those of you who WANT updates, you might get an email from Amazon telling you it is available. However, you might just have to randomly check your Manage Kindle and a particular book. So, for example, if you bought Sage 3 years ago, if you visited Manage Kindle today and looked at Sage, there would be be an option on the book to download a new version. There would be no active notice for it because it was enhancements not corrections (this is not entirely my decision. Amazon has me fill out a form with what I changed and why. Then they can 1. pull the book, 2. mass email or 3. make it downloadable to those who already purchased.)
There was a forth option, but I can't recall it off the top of my head.
For Smashwords, you have access to any new versions So long as the author didn't change the name of the book and upload something entirely different (for example if someone only had a few chapters and then finished the book and loaded it as an entirely different book.)
For Nook, there is no way to update that I know of.