Michael R. Hicks » Amazon DTP http://www.kreelanwarrior.com Tales and Musings Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:56:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Updating Books on the Kindle – A Big No-Go? http://www.kreelanwarrior.com/2009/03/updating-books-on-the-kindle-a-big-no-go/ http://www.kreelanwarrior.com/2009/03/updating-books-on-the-kindle-a-big-no-go/#comments Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:41:33 +0000 Michael R. Hicks http://www.kreelanwarrior.com/?p=476 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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