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Originally Posted by eschwartz
IMHO you should have pulled the bundle entirely, and left it up to the retailer to Do The Right Thing (Amazon will). Then republished the remaining short story as a separate ebook instead of an updated version.
As it is, people who bought (with *actual money*  ) an ebook will now find their book disappearing out from under them. Even on Amazon, trusting fools who enabled autoupdates will find their book is no longer the one they bought.
You might think "oh, no real harm done" becase after all they'd just be buying the full novel and the newly-free short, but... maybe not.
You haven't gained yourself any great benefits I can see, and you have undoubtedly left people confused and annoyed.
Don't change the product. |
Well, Amazon does not allow me to pull a book and republish with a changed title if it is essentially the same book. While it's marginally possible to do that, it's usually done to hide bad reviews and talk about confusion. In addition, I didn't want to sell the single short story remaining for 99 cents. So I pulled it from Amazon entirely, which is somewhat the same thing you are suggesting.
I haven't had any complaints. Anyone who actually wants either of these short stories can find them online for free. They just cannot find them on Amazon any longer. I would have made the remaining story free on Amazon (confusion or not) but that isn't easily possible. And THAT indeed might be confusing.
I'm not at all claiming it was an ideal situation. I wouldn't have PURPOSELY done it that way. But it happened to work out this way and there's no point in crying over split milk on my end.