One of the attractive options about publishing through Amazon’s Digital Text Platform (DTP) to the Kindle Store was that books could be updated, and folks who had bought an earlier copy could re-download the revised one.
Now, I’ll be darned if I can find the documentation on that (although I very strongly recall that it wasn’t just urban legend), but a recent post on the DTP forums put a torpedo in that particular ship. One of the folks on the forum called Amazon support and was told that there currently is no way for readers to download an updated version of a title, unless they ask for a refund and then repurchase the book. And, of course, Amazon apparently won’t allow that as a general rule.
Hopefully they’ll add that as a feature, because it would be an extremely powerful advantage, particularly for “how-to” books that can be updated periodically with the latest information. Come on, Amazon, push the envelope a bit, would you?
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I know for a fact that Kindle use to allow upgrades to already purchased titles because I did this myself several times. Now that I have a book of my own on Kindle I was really disappointed to find out I couldn’t get version 2 of my own book (so I could see the results of the changes) unless I got a refund and then purchased my book again. I eventually did this, but doing away with this benefit away was NOT an improvement! I hope Amazon sees fit to return this feature – and soon!
On a side note – thank you for all the good advice you have given in the forums. I really found it helpful and I was very happy to buy “Publish Your Book On The Amazon Kindle.” In case you are ever curious, check out my book “Emotional Triangle: A True Story of Overcoming Childhood Trauma, Years of Grief, and Post Traumatic Stress Syndrom.” It was your great advice that made the book possible. Thanks!
does anyone know how to publish to kindle without an ISBN number? in the FAQ it says you don’t need one but it won’t let me publish with that field empty