Update Your E-book (Only If Necessary)

Your readers might find more of your mispelled words, or any errors on your E-book. Or in some cases; your E-book needs to be expanded, or your readers aren’t able to read it at all because, DRM is infecting it!

You can use any word program on your machine to fix errors on your E-book, or in the cloud.

If you’re using Draft2Digital to publish books, you can update them quickly. You can also turn off DRM there at your control panel of your account.

If you are a screen-reader user, just like I do; make sure your content is readable by a screen-reader on your computer. Go for an open-source screen-reader, not proprietary software.


If your E-book is too short, and it’s a stub:

I’ve written this article about Stub Of Death earlier on my other site. However, you can still resolve it.

Adding chapters that will segment your book will help. At minimum; try to place at least 12 pages per chapter on your book, and fix formatting errors yourself. Add more of your storyline; and add more features. Whether if you want to make it as long as your favorite 6-hour long movie. It takes practice, and it takes some time.

Some readers has complained about these errors on your work, and in some cases; images are the problem

Try fixing some errors, and respond to your readers who are trying to read your book.

To comply with accessibility guidelines, always place the alt attributes to describe an image,–so blind readers can identify your images.

Fix these run-on sentences, and add punctuation. Otherwise, they’re be too difficult to read.

If your book is protected with DRM a barberric risky technological measure; you’re not going to grow more readers. Never treat them like criminals!

CC-licensed E-books must have a procise CC BY-SA 4.0 license applied at it’s copyright page.

Edit your description of your book.

Your tables might be problematic. Try fixing content inside them.

Always place a page break after your custom copyright page.

If your book is finally updated, be sure to republish them,–so they can update via any vendor what you’ve chosen.

Try to slow down, and edit misspelled words,–this is common for some people who can’t spell words due to disability. If you can draw images; you can use these images to write books. At minimum; write words that will go alongside images for the blind.

If you had an author blog; let other users know what’s exactly happening when you were editing your book via a long editing time.

If you have a wiki for your characters… implement it! Even licensing your fictional characters what you created yourself under a Creative Commons license can save anybody’s money. If you are planning on updating your ebook with a changelog; publish your changelog publically.

If you were planning on publishing an extremely long book; do so. Don’t let your ebook be out of date for a while. Some vendors has strict TOS pages that are too difficult to manage,–after publishing your book with them. Always research their stores for possible vague policies, and find a vendor who is right for you!

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