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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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This is not as true as one one like in my experience.
I tried this with my first book and both Amazon and B&N (as in 90% of my market) made it practically impossible for readers to get the new edition. For Amazon the readers would have to delete the book from their devices, all of them, AND from their account completely. Then they would have to BUY a new copy. With B&N, I could find no way at all to get an updated copy to a reader. Even if they did all of the above they still got what ever copy they purchased.
Smashwords on the other hand allows their customers to down load any copy of the story (including the ones I have pulled and replaced) released since they day of their purchase.
I did not bother checking how they other stores handle it.
Plus any damage to your rep is already done. If you do not get the book right the first time the reader reads it, most will just move on and not look back, ever.
So while we talk about how "easy" it is to replace a book with a new version, that is not my experience in reality.
Sorry I guess this does not reduce the stress
