I noticed yesterday that one of my previously purchased books, Elantris by Brandon Sanderson, showed a badge on the cover with "10,000 words of bonus content" when I loaded it onto my Kindle from Amazon's cloud. I looked inside the book and couldn't see anything new. I checked on
the book's web page and that now shows a new title, "Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition Kindle Edition", different from when I purchased the book.
It seems that this book has been updated to a new edition (with the same ASIN), but because I purchased the original edition that is what I get when I download the book. The original cover is still inside the book, but the cover for the new edition is shown on the Kindle book list. I guess that it is understandable behavior, but I didn't expect it to do that. I wanted to bring this up here in case any one else comes across the same thing.
As a side note this book doesn't show an update being available for me. When a publisher updates a book (keeping the original ASIN) they have the option of making the update available for previous purchasers, but that is not the default. From Amazon
Updating Your Book and
Notifying Customers of Book Updates:
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You can update your book any time, and republish it with the changes. Customers who buy your book after you republish will receive the updates. Customers who purchased your book before you made changes will keep the original version. If you've made significant corrections to errors, you can ask us to make the updates available to customers who have older versions of your book.
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I will ask customer service if they can let me have the new edition of the book. They have done that for me with other books in the past.
ETA: To summarize, the oddity is that Amazon keeps and sends you the original version/edition of the book you purchased, but delivers it to your devices with the cover thumbnail of the latest edition.