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Old 09-15-2016, 07:35 PM   #1039
Little.Egret
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Originally Posted by koland View Post
Yes, each author/publisher gets to decide: stealth updates, sent out to everyone; update that notifications are sent out; update that people must discover on their own.

Some publishers, of course, update by creating a new edition and deleting the old one from the catalog, leaving early buyers with the screwed up edition.
But if the new edition, say of a non-fiction work, is different enough but the publisher keeps the same ASIN then the only way that previous Kindle buyers can get it is to contact Customer Support.

The publisher can only mark the book's web page as "new edition" and hope for the best.
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