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Originally Posted by eschwartz
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. |
The problem with changing the title is that authors were pulling books, changing the title and making small changes to the book itself and getting a NEW listing--to leave behind bad reviews. So, for example, if "I wrote a book" had 9 bad reviews complaining about typos, formatting etc, the author could just change the title to: No, I REALLY wrote a book and leave behind the warnings (the author could potentially FIX those problems too, but you get the idea.)
The other thing a new title/same material does is it means if you have purchased the old version--you won't be told that when you see the "new" book with the "New title" and Amazon will essentially let you buy the same product twice.
Sorry for the confusion. I mistyped in my original explanation when I said I had to change the title--what I MEANT was that we are not supposed to change the title because the title is what creates a "new" listing. If you had purchased the original--Ghost Shadow/Executive Affairs and I "relisted" it as "Executive Affairs" it would appear to be a NEW book you did not own. Since Amazon requires I charge 99 cents, you would end up buying material you already had if you were a devoted follower who bought everything I wrote.
