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Originally Posted by KevisHendrickson
To be frank, the only way you can get around this situation is to return the older version of your kindle book and repurchase it. I personally know of many authors who have begged Amazon to change their policy, but they have refused to do so. The only thing that will make amazon relent on their bad policy is a massive boycott. Unfortunately, as long as people are willing to play amazon's game, nothing will ever change.
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I know, tell me about it! I had actually done just that one time myself, returned a book only to repurchase it again so I could get the update, but the price changed in the interim for one, so it ended up costing me an additional $1.40. No big deal really but it was the principal of the matter really. The fact that after waiting on hold for 5 minutes, I basically had to argue with the customer service rep to agree to even refund me, and made me promise I wouldn't "spread it around". And all that, besides being a
huge time waster, actually cost me $1.40 for the aggravation, just to get an updated copy which really should be happening automatically to begin with!
I actually do wish there was more of a publish push behind this issue though, like there is about DRM which has a lot of people talking too. I figure, if anything, we've got a better chance of getting them to change their stance on this versus the DRM issue, you think? Though I definitely think it needs to be more the authors and publishers pushing for it over the readers...