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Writer's Haven => Writer's Workshop [Public] => Topic started by: writtentales on November 05, 2020, 11:24:28 AM
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I am not sure if this goes here, but after looking over all categories, I didn't see any other anything related to KDP. I released my book a few months back, but a few friends stated the cover should be re-done. So I did. I also went ahead and reformatted the interior as well. Same content, but moved around and better formatting for reading.
What is the best way to accomplish this with KDP? Do I unpublish the first one and give this a new ISBN?
Or submit an updated cover and interior formatting under the same title?
Again, nothing changed—just the look of the cover and the formatting on the inside.
Thanks.
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Is that ebook or paperback? Asking because you mentioned ISBN.
With paperbacks, traditionally you publish a new edition, but I just upload new covers and interiors anyway. Not had a complaint in the past 8 years.
With ebooks I'd just replace the cover and contents. I see no benefit in publishing a new version, unless you've rewritten it and want to jettison unfavourable reviews for the earlier one.
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Just re-upload, and submit.
Those who buy it after that get the new version, those who bought before, don't.
The eBook version should get an update button on Manage Your Kindle.
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Thank you both for your feedback! It is both. My sales were low on this one and a few friends (which I appreciate) said, "Dude, your cover sucks." So I redid it. And also reformatted the interior, but all content is the same.
Thank you. Will go ahead and just replace and submit.
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Yep definitely the way to go.
If you change the content significantly you can request a forced refresh, where existing owners get the new copy forced on them. KDP are very anti doing this, so the changes have to be huge. (I removed 2 chapters from one of mine and they still only put through a voluntary update, not a forced one.)
The forced update deletes everyone's notes, if they have any, which is why KDP doesn't like doing those.
PS it is very useful to have an honest friend, especially where book covers are concerned. Keep them around!
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I'm not sure 'honest friends' are all that much help. grint
Post the covers here for confirmation.
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Here is the original and new.
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The first one looks fine to me.
The second one is 'in your face', and for some people, might be too confrontational.
It depends on what you're aiming for, readership wise. And if you are trying to confront.
Using the star of david has to be a deliberate thing, because it pushes a lot of buttons. You only do that if you want those buttons pushed.
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The book is about horrors of war and when we forget what happens it repeats. It's a historical journey to modern day through poetry and prose.
This is the intro.
"Firestorm" takes you on a political journey, traveling through past events into the present day.
History is disappearing from our schools;[1] uncomfortable topics erased with a single stroke of the pen.[2] The media follows lock-step. Facts are manipulated to disguise the underlying narrative fed to us daily.[3] Search engines join the crusade removing critical events, past and present.[4] Social media charges one step further. They revoke your ability to speak; all opposition silenced.[5]
When people no longer recognize the tactics of the tyrant, history repeats. Patterns will hide behind a curtain of obscurity.
And one day, when you least expect it, your loved ones will be lying face down. A boot to their neck and rifle to their head, as you ask yourself, "How did this firestorm ignite, wreaking havoc upon all humanity?"
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
George Orwell, 1984
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They certainly evoke very different reactions.
The first - with the guy and the burning newspaper... Honestly, my first reaction was the Pink Floyd album cover for Wish you were Here.
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Ebooks are easy, just upload the new files over the old, go through and hit publish.
The problem comes when you have ISBNs, as there are some things you can't change without doing a new edition with a new ISBN. You can check the Bowker site to see what you can and can't change.