SaveYourself.ca • Sensible advice for aches, pains & injuries
Why should an ebook ever be out of date? What’s the point of making books electronic if you can’t automagically update them?
I constantly upgrade and expand all my tutorials. Noteworthy improvements are made about once per month on average. Every customer has access to the most current edition of a tutorial for six months after their purchase, and there will usually be one or two significant updates during that time, and sometimes even several, especially if some important science news came along.
And every customer has a lifetime 75% discount on all future editions. (Boxed set customers get an even better deal: a 95% discount for annual renewal.)
If you buy a “standard” ebook from nearly any other publisher, it’s frozen in time — just as if you’d bought the paper version. If a new edition comes out in a year or two, you’ll have to pay full price to get the new stuff. Unfortunately, this is one of the many ways that publishers are (stupid, stupid, stupid) trying to make ebooks just like paperbooks. They think that consumers are too simple in the head to appreciate the benefits of new technology, apparently.
And of course they want to charge full price for future editions.
Little publishers like me are coming along and saying, “Are you kidding me? I can make my customers a better offer than that!”
As far as I know, my 75% lifetime discount on future editions is the best deal any publisher is offering for ebooks that get updated frequently. (Please let me know if you’ve seen anything else even close.)
For decades, health science books were generally pretty much obsolete before their ink had dried. Like any fast-moving field, health information desperately needs to be kept magically up-to-date. Ebooks are absolutely perfect for this challenge. It’s a bit of a dream come true. I’m glad I lived to see this.
Traditionally, you’ve had to re-buy new editions of books at full price plus inflation, and they still get obsolete. Most people skip editions due to the cost.
With my ebooks, you pay full price just once … and then buy future editions at a steep discount.
Traditionally, you’ve had to re-buy new editions of books at full price plus inflation, and they still get obsolete. Most people skip editions due to the cost.
With my ebooks, you pay full price just once … and then buy future editions at a steep discount.
You don’t have to do anything special: just visit your tutorial using the address you originally received after purchase. You should be recognized as a past customer and given a buy button for the current edition, at the discounted price.
If it’s many years later and you’ve long since lost the address, just contact me. I can easily find you in my records and get you set up with the current edition for cheap!