If you’ve written a Kindle ebook, the chances are that you’ve made minor changes to it at one time or another. Then you come across the challenge of getting the revised version into your own Kindle Library.
The solution ought to be Automatic Book Updates. If it’s activated on your Amazon account, you get updates without having to do anything – am I right? Well in my experience, I’m wrong. It simply doesn’t happen.
I asked a question about this on KDP Community. The best answer seemed to be from CodyV, who told me, ‘That has nothing to do with KDP, it’s for traditionally published books. They play by different rules.’ This meant ebooks from traditional publishing houses.
I accepted the answer, even though I had a nagging feeling it didn’t accord with something I’d read somewhere. That something was ‘Did you buy a copy of your eBook and want to see updates?’ and that somewhere was the KDP Help Send Updated eBook Content to Customers page.
The system described on that Help page is perfect, just what you want. You turn Automatic Book Updates on and receive the new version of your ebook without lifting a further finger. Unfortunately, it simply doesn’t happen. In practice you don’t get your own updates.
The only way to get updates is to you use Contact Us on the KDP website and send a polite email asking them to push the new ebook files to your device.