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Originally Posted by CheriePie
ETA - Oh, I just remembered something else from the time I was dealing with all this. I recall someone said that if you didn't add any annotations to a book, you'd be able to download any updates to it. However, I had tried that and it wasn't the case, even with books I didn't make any annotations on (bookmarks, clippings, notes, etc.)....
I'd also like to know of any other ramifications of disabling annotations backup. Is it only the annotations that are affected? Or is the backup of anything else such as periodicals or books affected as well? Thanks!
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The issue is now apparently moot (although I had tested it and it was working previously). In March, Amazon made another change to DTP and now (as you found) authors cannot issue any updates at all. They will no longer be allowed update their book under the same ASIN (they could and some authors are still reporting success, but only those who purchase it after the update are getting the new version). See the comment on this blog:
http://kindlereads.blogspot.com/2009...n-says-no.html by David Emberson.
It looks like some people had figured out how to issue basically daily or weekly magazines and sell them under a single price, updating on a constant basis (of course, for some of these self-published authors, it might have been more a matter of them constantly fixing typos and re-editing passages that a publishing house would have caught or they would have been forced to live with). So, no more updates for anyone, unless you return and re-purchase a book. Or, authors will have many copies of their book out for purchase (or will have to keep changing the valid ASIN, which means links to the book will constantly break).
However, I'll still leave my annotations off. It is extremely annoying to get notes and moved to a different start page when two of us on the same account are reading a book (or I didn't download one immediately and another person has started on it). My mother and I were constantly getting each other's notes until I turned this off on mine (I still need to do this on hers, the next time I see her; this happened on two books just this last week). The setting only applies to the notes and marks you set, along with tracking of last page read. The books are archived (and the last 6 copies of periodicals) at Amazon, no matter what. For periodicals, you should back those up yourself, also (I would not trust the "keep" function even).
Karen
http://booksontheknob.blogspot.com/
ps. What would you think about an occasional physical book give-away on my blog? I sometimes get duplicates (I have two, right now) and can either give them away or take the used bookstore (some, though, are ARC's and have no resale value).