Support for Indie Authors discussion

Hi everyone,
I just updated my book after a thourough editing, but I kept everything the same, same cover, title, isbn, the only thing changing really are the page numbers. Should I do a new version of it and combine it? Or is it a way to change the page number in my first edition?

You can get a new bookcover if you wish, but just note "2nd Edition" and the new date. You can send a note through the Amazon contact us saying you have a new update, and it will cause an update button to appear on the booklists of.customers who have already bought it that they can download the newest version.

The difference in pages must not be huge of it may have required a new isbm. You can put second edition if you wish. It will change the publication date though, which is only bad if a book with similar story that came out after yours in fact might look like it came out before you.

Unless there is a significant change in the number of pages (say, fifty or more), I wouldn't bother doing anything.

Thank you both very much, the difference is almost 30 pages less and the original version came out four months ago. It's not like it's been ages.

If they let you use the same ISBN...changing edition or whatever, won't make the people who bought it get the new version. That is entirely up to Amazon. You can ask them but that doesn't mean they will do it. :/ If I remember right, they do say that adding or removing chapters was not a good reason to force the updates. They will do if users could not enjoy the book before the changes. Lots of typos, problem loading a book, etc. The rest, as I said, is up to Amazon.

As for combine...I don't understand. If you upload and call it a new version, since you have the same ISBN, it will replace the old and that is all. No combine needed. If you are talking about here then it is really up to you. Since the cover didn't change, I believe you can just edit the page and that's all.


Four months is not much. I agree but... I had published mine at the end of August and my revision was in November, and I hate that the original date isn't there anymore. I didn't mind at the time. Now, almost four years later, I do. :/ But that's just me.