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Originally Posted by GeoffR
If the publisher fixes the book and uploads a new version, it won't automatically replace the version linked to your account. You need to make a complaint about the book content and ask Kobo to replace it with the fixed version.
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Well, I've politely asked Kobo several times to update their generated kepubs to a newer version because
- the publisher has updated the epub version of the book. Publishers do this to improve the reading expierence by fleshing out errors and/or problems. Like OCR-errors, broken sentences, etc. The usual suspects; or
- the kepub contains an outdated version "Kobo Style Sheet Hacks", which causes some problems like empty lines between p-tags. These KSSH problems are discussed on MR elsewhere.
Kobos answer has always been: no.
Asking Kobo to update a regular epub to the latest available version… I'm sure that the anwer will be (again): no.
Note: this is about a book with the same ISBN, not a new or rerelease of the same book title under a different ISBN. That would be a different release.
I guess this is one of the drawbacks when a bookseller hosts/stores books on its own servers.
If a book title (read: identification code, like ISBN) is already in its database, updated books by the publisher are rejected or ignored as the book title is already in the database.
In this situation the consumer is totally dependent on the bookseller if books receive updates or not.
Smaller booksellers, who usually don't store books on their own servers, often provide a download link to third-party intermediation service.
Book publishers upload their books to the intermediation service and therefore it is always up-to-date. Updated book titles replace the obsolete titles.
Which the consumer can (re)download.
Updates are triggered by the publisher not by the bookseller.