Update or Republish a Book: When to do which
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Did you know that you have the ability to update an already published book on Amazon? When it comes to updating or republishing a book on Amazon there are a few pros and cons that you will need to be aware of. So in this video, we are going to cover the pros and cons of updating or republishing your book on Amazon.
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Thank you! I have updated a book and modified the title and I now know republishing is the way to go! l learn so much from you!
So good to know. I updated my book and tried to get the update. That was days ago and still have not received it. Now I know I can just republish. Thanks so much for the information
Very insightful. Thanks for sharing, Dave!
Great video Dave. Thanks for everything you do! I am in the process of writing an Updated and Expanded version of my book. Republish seems to be the way to go. I will try to get the Reviews brought over as my book has a 4.4 star rating (266 reviews).
Your video was very good and easy to understand without a lot of waffle which I listened to in other videos. Thanks 👍
This was very helpful. I'm considering doing second editions of my books- new covers, bios, revamping things that need work, etc. Thanks for sharing this.
Glad it was helpful!
Great video Dave! Perfect timing actually. Thank you!
Great to hear!
Thank you so much! I could not find this info anywhere else and was afraid to hit publish in fear that i couldn’t change things later. You break everything down into easy steps, making it all less intimidating. I am also a fan of Publisher rocket and took your course, which was exactly what I needed.
You're so welcome and glad you have enjoyed it!
Thank you. This was very useful.
it's amazing how many questions you've answered in 1 short video. I've watched so many videos and still had questions. thanks so much!
Thanks. I like to make my videos like I like to watch them. Quick and to the point :)
I need to republish my original book.i want to do it in KDP. Can you give some do's and don't's? It would be Appreciated.
Thanks, Dave I love your videos, they are very informative.
Glad you like them!
Brilliant, thank you! Good guidelines to follow when I do a new edition.
Glad it was helpful!
Good Job buddy, i appreciate your videos.
Perfect - exactly what I searched for and I just purchased your Atticus program - It's AMAZING for writing and publishing my books! Keep going!!!
That's awesome and glad you're enjoying it :)
@@Kindlepreneur I am - i can only imagine the software roadmap to come....I'm looking forward to Atticus being the end-all software for writers and self publishers.
Thanks David!
Terrific! Terrific! I'm clear now about what is meant by 'update' and 'republish'! This video is clear about what these terms mean, when to use what, and how to do it! In many articles and videos, you also cover the how - it helps a lot. Keep up the great work you do for us on this channel! :-)
Glad it was helpful!
Very informative! Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
I am new to this , I do like how you explain things simple and easy I pray the process of updating is. I just need to do some slight changes in grammar and punctuations. God bless.
Great video bro very informative
❤❤❤thanks for info Sir
great vid... thanks bro
Thank you for sharing this video that was very helpful and informative.
Glad to help :)
This is great! Makes me wonder again why they don't have an option to unpublish that actually unpublishes...but I think the Zon prefers to consider itself the repository of all books rather than the LOC...makes things confusing for buyers, alas!
Great insights as always, Dave. I’m saving this video link so I have somewhere to send folks.
Thanks for that!
Appreciate the nuts & bolts with common sense. Appreciate all you do!
Thank you!
Thank you!
Dave, you are like God in the KDP universe 😊....your tips are to the point and address the actual issue....your solutions are easy to follow and any problem with kdp doesn't seem like problem anymore...Great job !! Sending you lots of good luck and wishes from the other end of the world !!
Awe shucks...thanks!
This video was perfect timing. I'm re-doing a series... New covers, titles, re-writes, re-formatting, and adding a new book.
Thanks and glad you liked it.
Very helpful!
So glad!
Great video, on point and answered some questions I needed answers too. I have a new cover for a book on KDP print, and I want to change my trim size, do I have to republish it to accomplish this? Will republishing just the print version effect the kindle version?
Hi nice topic 🎉🎉
Great info.
Glad it was helpful!
Great video. I'm curious would it be smooth for the newly published book (new ISBN) to regain its rankings?
Thank you for the info. Do you have any advice on adding a subtitle to increase the book ranking/visibility? Is it worth it to add a subtitle in the hopes it ranks better for this but lose my reviews which are not many at the moment?
Great video
Thanks!
Great video, thank you. I've noticed that it takes a few weeks for one of my books to be searchable for the keywords and for sales to start to pickup. When. I republish and link a 2nd edition to the first edition, does it link all of the search data from the first to the new book? Thanks.
Hi Dave. I have a collection of short stories published. I would like to add a few more stories to it, going from 14 to 20. The title will remain the same. Would you advise just updating the file or a total republish?
I'm thinking of unpublishing and republishing my first-in-series (paperback) as I've written a prequel that really should be Book 1. I also want to change the trim size (of the paperback). I don't plan on touching the ebook, though, except for changing the cover to show it as Book 2.
Am I right in assuming my existing reviews will stay, as they are mostly for the ebook anyway? (Yes, I have linked both versions as well)
I don't have "Book 1" as a subtitle, so again, I'm assuming I won't need to mess with the ASIN or the ebook ISBN on Draft2Digital either. Can you confirm?
Many thanks.
Hi there
Thank you for this video 👍🏼
What is the best thing to do if you only want to change the subtitle and back cover?
Great video. I've been working through this with my wife's book and one thing I noticed is if you "link an existing book", you're not really unpublishing and republishing. Does that only work if you unpublish/republish one format of the book, like a paperback copy, then link the existing ebook?
Hey, Dave. Great video. I'm currently republishing my book, do i need to indicate to Amazon that my book was previously published?
Hey Dave thanks so much as always, you're the best. I'm not sure I understand. If I want to try to get reviews transferred to my new edition (re-published) E-book, I would repulish the book and then link the paperback ASIN with the new Kindle ASIN? OR I need to use my old Ebook ASIN and link it to the new ebook ASIN?
Awesome video, thank you. I do have concerns on which one I should use when adding a 15k book to the same 15k book making it a 30k book. Is this possible? Thank you in advance! :)
I have an ebook on sale with Amazon that was published a long time ago that I just realized contains an error (one wrong word) in the subtitle (pretty embarrassing). It continues to get some sales and has okayish (3.9/5) reviews, but now has 93 reviews overall, which is more than most of its competitors. Assuming that unpublishing to make the correction will remove reviews, do you think it's worth losing all those reviews just to correct the subtitle? Thanks in advance.
nice one
Hi Dave .. great video/ info as always! Just wondered if you could clarify or had experience of my following issue please?
I have just put a new eBook up for preorder 1st Dec 2022 launch. Today i was setting up my kdp PB version ... and wait for it ... stupidly clicked the publish button instead of save draft! Its now in the 72 hr review process that can't be accessed by any soul on earth. Now the bug bear is that I intended to set this up with a 15th Dec 22 launch for ARC reviews/ promotion etc to kick in. NB. Kdp had orginally advised that my only option was to unpublish and reset it up with new ISBN ... which would cause lots of hassles with file and cover alterations. BUT a kdp team leader has since explained that this is not the case .... IE all i have to do is unpublish the PB title as soon as it goes 'live', and then near to 15th Dec 22 i simply REPUBLISH IT WITH THE SAME ISBN/files without any changes. I asked the team leader if thats 100% true ... and they said 150% true! Talk about stress. Any thoughts /urgent advice please? Thanks in advance! D
Thanks for this information. I unpublished but still don’t have the option to redo the subtitle. It says cannot be edited once the book has been published.
Sorry, I'm not sure I found what I was looking for in this video. I unpublished several books last year, but they are still showing up in Amazon, even though they've said 'out of print - unavailable' ever since. I need to delete them entirely from Amazon, because the unpublished books are outranking the published ones that are actually available for sale. I'm not sure what to do, but my sales have basically stopped entirely now that I have a full library of 'out of print' books cannibalizing the other ones.
Hi - would updating the kdp ISBN to a bought one be an update or republish?
If the payout information changes do you need to republish? Such as going from one bank account to another or going from sole proprieter to LLC? Or me, the author, changing my LLC name? Or is that all behind the scenes?
I'm thinking about republishing so I can improve my subtitle. Is there a way to do this so that while I'm waiting for the republish to be approved, my old version stays active?
Just what I needed. I just launched, but I don't like the description layout.
Can I change categories after book being live ?
question if i were to republish a book do i need a new isbn#
What happens if I want to update my book, but it is already in review and I cant make changes? it says when it goes live is the only time I can change it, but what are the consequences to this? Will I be able to re-upload the manuscript and then they take it back into review again, and it is no longer live? or does the old manuscript stay live while the new one is in review??? This scares me if thats true, what if someone buys my book but its the old copy, and not the updated one since we cant update it until its live??
What about a book that was posted up five years ago and just sat there no sales and no reviews so the history looks dead what do you recommend??? I never hear people discuss this I literally didn't launch or market just uploaded. Thanks in advance.
Can I change my ebook name after published
Hi Dave. I was successful at republishing a book and linking it to my older versions, however, the new versions are set at a higher price. If someone was to purchase the new edition, would it default to the older edition's price? Also If were to unpublish the older edition would the link reviews remain?
For your first question - it shouldn't. As for the second, they should. I say this because Amazon isn't always consistent. And if they do something different, you can contact them and request it be fixed.
What are your thoughts about republishing with Draft2Digital when previously you published with only Amazon?
Well, what I do is I published directly to Amazon, iTunes and Barnes&Noble...then I publish to Draft2Digital and tell them to put the book on all the other markets (except those three). That way I get all the commission on those big three...and the other markets, well I wouldn't have submitted to them anyway, so if there is a sale, then good on them :)
Hi Dave, great video and very timely as I am working to update my first novel with a second edition. I had heard Zon will only accept some changes to a manuscript, as in a certain percentage. Do you know if this true? Thanks again for the great advice!
But can I edit a book that's in review?
Hey Dave, if I get Amazon to port over my Reviews from the first book to my second edition, can readers still post another new Review (for the new edition) if they already have left a review before?
Yes they can.
@@Kindlepreneurgreat, thanks for the reply. Just waiting for my print proof to arrive and planning out my to-do list when I got to publish.
This is good but how can you have a customer to look inside after you publish the book
Hello sir, I published my ebook on amazon, and 3 days later it got published with the (congratulations email from kdp) but when I downloaded my ebook I found my title page and copyright on the same page. It made me panic and hurriedly I edit the ebook detail and resubmitted the manuscript correcting the mistake. I republished the ebook but even after 4 days there is no mail of ebook republished neither it is eligible to run ads. Its still showing live. I am not getting the problem could you please help me out?
Hmm..I'm not sure what is happening there. It could be that Amazon hasn't gotten to checking it - or that they did and that it is fixed for those who pay for it.
What if you are self-published but you went with a company for printing purposes?
You didn't show how to get to the page for updating book cover
When you republish on Amazon, I understand that you are assigned a new ASIN. Can you reuse the ISBN of the old ebook/paperback?
No sir, you will need a new ISBN. Ebooks don't need ISBNs.
@@AcademiadelBestSeller True, on Amazon you don't need ISBNs for ebooks, but everywhere else you do, especially at libraries and most other vendors. So changing an ISBN for an ebook can have large implications, thus the question.
Can you change the cover of the paperback without republishing? I didn't think you could.
You can update cover, interior, description, keywords... you have a full list on KDP Help pages what can you edit after book goes live.
What Marina said - you can change the cover. However, if Amazon decided to mass print your paperback (they do this if you tend to sell a consistent number each month so they batch print), they will continue to sell those, until they run out and then will sell your new updated version.
@@Kindlepreneur Oh, yes. I forgot about that. I ordered my book to see the new cover and they kept sending me the old one. Finally, I got a hold of the Amazon agent and they told me they printed some quantities for Christmas last year and they will not print new until they sell those. So when making changes to cover an interior people should count that buyers might not get the new version in a while.
Hi Dave,
I republished two books a while ago. The main problem for me was that they kept the image and all the info on the old books with all the metadata. Even though the new books have a different name and cover, the old books are still there. They just labeled it "currently unavailable." That is not helpful.
Did you indicate to Amazon that it was previously published?
@@patiencemecha I told them that I rewrote the books so they weren't literally the same. They didn't answer me. Thanks for writing back, Dave.
@@StuartLand I mean, during the upload, did you click on the icon that indicates that the book was previously published?
@@patiencemecha I probably didn't. I wanted it to be a new book.
but when will amazon allow you to delete reviews that complain about printing quality or shipping damage. this is very frustrating because those are not the publisher's fault and can devastate our sales. although i have yet to make 1 sale as a KDP seller lol i have been doing FBA for a few years and it just drives me crazy when i see reviews like this even on other people's products.
Sadly, I wouldn't hold out hope for that capability. :(
Just a reminder that re-publishing also means that Amazon gets to decide whether or not to accept your book again. I re-published mine after changing around the way the story was written and Amazon now won't accept it AND I'm banned from doing prereleases for a year because of it.
I can' believe that! Did they give a reason?
@@thomasgreenbank7580 Nope, no matter how many times I asked they just kept referring me back to the rules page.
How do you take a book down? I don’t have that option in that menu 😔Thank you Thank you
When you click on the three dots in your bookshelf for a specific book the last option on the list is to Unpublish your book.
@@MarinaArtDesign thanks Marina: I did that but the book is still appearing in random lists of my items ( occasionally when you look at your book and get those …. ‘By the same author’ lists). It might work it’s way off but I thought ‘unpublished ‘meant no longer visible 😊. Thanks for your support … slow learning curve for me 😉
@@hippygold7894 No, once you publish a book you can not delete it. The only option is to make it so people can not buy it but it will remain permanently under your pen name. It will just be shown as unavailable. I have 30 books like that now and I put them to unpublished mode so I can work on cover and everything with more relaxed timing, I will republish them once I have everything ready.
@@MarinaArtDesign you’re a star! Thank you 🙏
Yup - what Marina said.
You did not go through the steps of how to Republish
Thanks! When releasing a second book in series, does Zon give that book preferential treatment too? Or is it just for first time published authors with the first book? Also, should you run ads to the second book? My B2 had a much more terrible launch than B1. (I ran ads to B2, so would they rather take the ad revenue than push it for “free”?)
Zon give the second book in a series preferential treatment - any new book.