Content How does Automatic Book Update work?

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by Helgetus

I can not answer your question. I was wondering how you can identify books that are available for an update, without consulting the help desk.

Are we forced to read an updated book again?

How would you be forced to read a book a second time?

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by patrickt

How would you be forced to read a book a second time?

Do you really think he cares, three years after asking the question?

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by patrickt

How would you be forced to read a book a second time?

I hope not. It was bad enough the first time.

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by jhowell

I don't think so. Notifications are only sent for the most serious/disruptive updates. They are rare.

The format is "Kindle Title title_is_here (ASIN:B004GHN7WQ) has an available update"

You could look in your account's emails from Amazon to check but there are only perhaps two a year for my thousands of books.

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by HarryT

There seem to be two types of updates: minor updates, which get sent automatically to the same device they were originally sent to, and major updates, which wipe out notes, etc, that you have to agree to by replying to an email.

If the device you originally sent a book to is no longer active, updates don't get sent anywhere: you need to look through the "My Kindle Content" page on Amazon, find those books that say "Update Available", and manually send them to your device.

This, at least, has been the way it's worked for me.

That may be so for some updates but some were for quite recent purchases.

(I was asking for a manual update for a book where the author had added an extra short story so new purchaser got more but in according with the KDP notes, no-one was notified and I had to go to CS.)

So I asked this question and got the suggestion.

08:07 PM GMT Abdhul: Usually once you have turn on the automatic update, the update will be auto delivered to the Kindle device once it is connected with the Wifi.
It seems that there was an intermittent issue with send the update to your Kindle devices.

I edit to add that four "Update Available" books came to my first Kindle (K3, 2012, used daily) so for these there can be no "Kindle no longer registered" explanation.