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Originally Posted by BeccaPrice
I strongly recommend this essay and discussion over at Dear Author. It's titled "When I bought your book, I didn’t sign up to be your beta reader" and has a lot of people discussing authors who take reader feedback and change (not just edit, but change) their book - and still charge people for both drafts. |
Who is this directed at?
If me, I haven't edited a book other than to fix a couple of typos in two volumes. I make sure those updates are downloadable for free. Oh--I did add illustrations to the anthologies. But those were also downloadable to anyone who had already purchased them. I didn't upload new versions to any retailer that could not handle getting the "new" copies to the reader--illustrations are an extra and the user shouldn't have to pay again to get them.
This is just one more reason I started selling ePub directly from my site. More control. B&N and some other retailers have no method of allowing a reader to get a new version (I'm not saying there should ever be a need for a new version and I am not suggesting that any author use readers as beta readers.)
I guess I'm not sure if this was a general comment about what you hate?