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Old 03-01-2017, 02:40 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by SigilBear View Post
Hmmm...that's a good tip. However, I would still like to include a link to a page where readers can find updates. For example, I'm working on a book about state symbols, and new symbols are adopted every year. So it would be a nice to have a web page that lists the latest symbols.
I don't think I am being overly old-fashioned to say that when I buy a book (e or p) I am expecting to buy a finished product (or maybe I am, I am getting on ). If I want a truly dynamic resource I will bookmark the website where that resource exists and probably ignore the book. For all that an epub is assembled from HTML, it is not a website; the two server different purposes, just as PDF serves a different purpose to epub.

By all means offer additional/updated information on your website, but I would limit epub updates to significant editions that do not change too often. I expect websites to change often, I expect epubs to be (relatively) static. How much my view of such things reflects others', I cannot tell you.
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