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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
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--
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.
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.)
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I don't have a problem with Amazon's updating their books. They have been pretty consistent in notifying me of updated books.
It's Smashwords where I have bought books from them only to have the title pulled and having to rebuy it again from Amazon to get a corrected or better formatted copy. Smashwords never lets you know about updated versions of their books you only find out if go to redownload them and it gives you a choice of which version you want.
At Amazon I can get refunded if the author pulls a ASIN changed on me. At Smashwords I am stuck with a crap copy and out money when the book is pulled. This isn't so much Smashwords' fault but the author's.