It took me a while to figure out that, if I update my e-book with a corrected manuscript, then the e-book I purchased will update as well. I actually made the mistake of buying myself another copy of my e-book, but then I had a suspicion and started digging around online for what actually happens. Turns out that the e-book more or less updates automatically for those of us using a Kindle app on our Android phones. For people using actual Kindles, I think there's some sort of "download this book again" option that'll allow you to be sure your version of the book is the newest such version.
Updating the ms for your dead-tree, print-on-demand book is a different story since you're dealing with solid objects that, once printed, can't be changed. Anyway, I redid the PDF of my book, re-uploaded the ms, and bought myself another Amazon copy, which ought to arrive sometime in March. I'm also having 15 more copies of the now-revised, printed-in-Korea version of my book made; I'll be picking those up on Tuesday and distributing them to friends and coworkers. Thus far, the two egregious typos I caught in my book are the only two I've seen after several more rereadings, so I think that's that.
It's not going to be so easy with the upcoming movie-review book, which is going to be over 1,000 pages in length. That one's going to be a real pain to check over.
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