How to revise a book without doing "new" book?
Is there a better way to revise a book (e.g., to fix a typo) than having to treat it as a new book?
Using Booksmart, I loaded the existing book and made the change, then uploaded the revised file to blurb (with exactly the same title of course). It got treated as a new book such that I then had two books in my bookstore, the revised one and the now-obsolete one. So then I marked the obsolete one “private” so no one would stumble across it and order it. I then remembered that I had sent email out regarding my book with a link to my book at blurb, and now that link pointed to the obsolete version. To address that, I changed the title of the obsolete book to include “obsolete, see new version” to warn that potential buyer. Not a great title anymore, but I wanted to steer book buyers to the correct version. And of course I also needed to update my website “badge” code to point to the new book.
All this is an outcome of not being able to revise a book. Did I miss something, is there a way to replace an existing book file at blurb with a new one such that all links remain correct and such that I don’t have to have an obsolete book in my bookstore?
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Good grief… we need to be able to edit or change posts here…sorry for the two that posted above (don’t even know what caused it). Hate to answer your question with a question, but HOW DID YOU make your changes. I can’t make any changes to a blub book once published… when I launch booksmart, the import from computer option is grayed out???? Thanks, tom
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No problem, Tom. I jumped in and deleted your two incomplete posts for you. – Kathy
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Tom, I can change the book file using Booksmart, but I don’t know how to upload it as a revision to the previously uploaded files, as opposed to uploading it as a new book. I must be missing something. Uploading as a new book means I need to keep the old version indefinitely to redirect buyers to the new version. Clearly, there must be a way of replacing a previously uploaded file with a new one, I am just looking for someone to explain how to do that.
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I’ve been wondering the same thing. I came across your post and was disappointed not to find an answer. Sadly, it may be that we can’t fix it.
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I believe I’ve read in previous posts that you cannot replace files on the Blurb server. If you have changes to your book, it needs to be uploaded as a new book. Regina
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