{"id":5643,"date":"2010-05-16T16:17:15","date_gmt":"2010-05-16T21:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5643"},"modified":"2010-05-16T16:17:15","modified_gmt":"2010-05-16T21:17:15","slug":"edit-ebook-then-publish-then-edit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5643","title":{"rendered":"Edit eBook then Publish, then Edit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to <a title=\"Jorgen's World\" href=\"http:\/\/jorgensworld.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Jorgen<\/strong><\/a> for a link to this <em><strong>Christian Science Monitor <\/strong><\/em><a title=\"Should Amazon update content.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Innovation\/Horizons\/2010\/0511\/Amazon-sometimes-issues-patches-for-Kindle-e-books.-Is-that-a-good-thing\" target=\"_self\"><strong>story<\/strong><\/a> about Amazon sometimes updating eBooks with patches and narrative fixes. This is causing some controversy among literary purists who feel that a book is inviolate once the writer has signed off.<\/p>\n<p>I think updates make perfect sense with science and textbooks to keep up with advances, though it could present dangers for fiction writers.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve all read books that had the art and spontaneity re-written out of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Jorgen for a link to this Christian Science Monitor story about Amazon sometimes updating eBooks with patches and narrative fixes. This is causing some controversy among literary purists who feel that a book is inviolate once the writer has signed off. I think updates make perfect sense with science and textbooks to keep &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5643\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5643"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5647,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5643\/revisions\/5647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}