by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
One of the things that delights me about self-publishing is the ability to go into a published book’s files and make changes.
For my traditionally-published books, I can’t do a darn thing with the files. I’ve alerted both Penguin Random House and Midnight Ink to reader-reported problems with both digital and print files that have resulted in missing pages, duplicate pages, and–in one particularly horrifying example–a completely different book from a completely different author that Penguin Random House implanted in the last half of one of my mysteries. Problem at the printer? I’ve no idea, but I knew that the chance that I could get it fixed was iffy. I ended up sending these readers signed copies of the book from my personal stash at home.
For my self-published books, I’ve made changes to the finished files quite a few times and for different reasons.Continue reading