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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
I'm not sure what you're saying here. If someone is without the book (free or not) the problem is more likely to be because B&N no longer makes it downloadable. I agree that B&N and other retailers should continue to make the book available to those who purchased it (Free or otherwise). What I was trying to say is that if the author decided that FUTURE purchasers could only have book one or book one and two for free, that shouldn't be a problem. It's no different than changing the price from a sale.
But if a person bought it, the onus is on the RETAILER to make sure it stays available for those who purchased it (because we, the authors, can't control that aspect).
I don't see the ethical problem with changing the book price for new purchasers. I do see an issue of confusion if the reviews talk about 3 books and there are only 2 books, but again, there are technical reasons for not just pulling a book and relisting under different titles. The problem is that we flat our aren't allowed to do that. And changing the title causes even more problems and confusion anyway.
Even Smashwords has a policy of not "publishing" the same book twice. There are multiple issues with doing so--and several authors decided to publish rather than update--because it gets them more visibility (front page of smashwords for x amount of time and so on).
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Happy to know you didn't change the product after all.
I have no problem with changing the price -- changing the product is Bad, because for example Amazon might silently update it.
What is the problem with changing the title? I don't see it as changing anything -- it is offering a new product (while pulling an old one) -- naturally it will have a different title.
Books 1 & 2 of ____ vs
The Complete Trilogy -- those are different products and should reflect as much -- and not leave it to the retailer to accidentally update peoples' books.
Updating a book is MEANT for fixing spelling/formatting errors, not pulling switcharoos and changing the product. If I select manually to update a book from
http://amzn.com/myk, I expect to get a book that has been edited for typos (code or text), I would be completely blindsided by having stories from an omnibus simply disappear.