*makes a minor disagreement shrug*

I see a lot of books that are issued at the same time in print and
electronic editions, and then some of the ebooks go through a "maintenance
release" that fixes typos and layout.  You can see this happen when you
boot iBooks for the first time after a while, and see a downloads-available
badge, letting you know that some of your books have updated versions
available.

I haven't yet seen an ebook be corrected for major plot screwups, however :)

I've gone the self-pub route, and I know I can fix anything that a customer
points out.  I upload a fixed file to take the place of the existing file;
it goes live after Apple/Amazon take a look at it (takes about 24hrs), and
then the people who've paid for it get the "download available" badge in
the app telling them to download the fixed version, and new buyers will
only get the updated version when they buy the book.

But, yeah, 100% of the text is the same on first release, after some time
they may diverge.

rip

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 10:06 PM, Raymond Feist <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> > On May 27, 2015, at 6:06 PM, Scott Ponton <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > I'm not worried, it was intended more as a sort of sarcastic comment.
> People come and go on these lists as interest waxes and wanes, it's the way
> of things.
> >
> > I am surprised at myself for not getting round to reading Faerie Tale
> sooner though. I know it's been around for a while, and my mum had the
> paperback, but it disappeared. .. probably my no good book losing brother,
> but impossible to prove.  I now have the e-book version and am enjoying it
> greatly.
> >
> > A question about e-books in general though, maybe Ray or another writer
> on here can answer, is there any difference between e-book and print
> versions in terms of the actual text? Is it an automated process of simple
> conversion (like if the manuscript I'd typed on a word processor)or would
> someone have to retype it?
>
> eBooks should be identical to print, unless specifically noted, such as
> “revised,” or “abridged.”
>
> Best R.E.F.
>
>
>
>

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