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Originally Posted by Blossom
You may purchase a book and never know parts are missing till you try to read it and need an updated copy. I still have to contact Kindle support for them to send me an updated copy because over 95% of them do not update due to publisher not filling out the forms correctly when submitting an update.
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Actually that isn't why. Amazon has made it increasingly difficult to send out update notices. They used to just send a notice/email on request of the publisher/author. Now they inspect the book and the changes have to amount to more than just one or two typo corrections. If the changes are not "significant" they will not notify readers. If they are significant (by their standards) they will notify those who purchased. If they fall short of that, they will make the update available, but not tell readers (so if you have the "automatically accept updates" you will get the new copy. If you don't have that checked, a small indicator will show up on your manage kindle list for that book and you must manually decide to get the update).
For small typos or small format changes, no notification or availability is available for the reader.
I think authors were requesting updates for minor changes like a typo or adding books to a series list in the backmatter. Amazon will not notify for those anymore. To make them available can be nearly impossible for those who bought the book (I assume a reader who heard about it could request a new copy, but I'm not sure if that would work or not).
I do know it's pretty hard to get Amazon to send out an update and even after they inspect and decide to send it out or make it available, it can take 3 weeks or longer in some cases.