To answer the question in the title of today’s post, I need to first bring up the differences between Traditional Publishing and Self-Publishing <— there, I brought them up with those links because they’ll take you to all my articles on those subjects :-)
And, I shouldn’t ignore the common sentiment among authors that publishing can feel like giving birth…
Plus, there’s the old adage that once a book’s published the author should respect its right to grow up as it pleases…
The thing is, just like a parent’s “intercessions” in their child’s life after they’ve left home, an author isn’t “finished” with a book once it’s published.
Of course, whether traditionally or self-published, the author needs to be involved in the book’s promotion; but, there are many other exploits a book-child can become embroiled in…
Take my book Notes from An Alien as an example. 
I published it in 2011 and the print edition is just like it was back then; but, I won’t be spending money to refresh the print edition—a version without the typos that have been discovered—I’ve decided to forego print; but, I have 4 different E-editions fully corrected…
And, you may want to check out a past post about how a book review taught me something important about typos…
Then, there’s this other book of mine…
It began as a series of fantasy short stories I published here on the blog every Friday, from December 6th, 2013 through July 18th, 2014.
Then, I decided to publish the stories as the book, Strange Fantasies, on Amazon. 
And, just a few days ago, I had a reason to open up that Kindle book on my Tablet…
Big mistake on the first page…
I’d listed the address of this blog right under the title…
However, back then, this blog had a different address (a domain name I’d been paying for…)…
But, since it was only published digitally, I had no concerns about saving money to pay to update it…
So, that’s what’s been happening to two books I’ve published, since they were born and left home—I’m sure there will be other intercessions in the future :-)
Yet, those changes in my books are Nothing compared to what an extremely famous author had to go through…
I’ll share a few excerpts from a past post I wrote—The Publishing (And Editorial) History of Some Extremely Famous Fiction—about all the trials and tribulations these books went through after they were first published…
It “…was initially intended…to be one volume of a two-volume set…, but this idea was dismissed by [the] publisher. For economic reasons [it] was published in three volumes over the course of a year from 29 July 1954 to 20 October 1955…”.
“A dispute with his publisher, George Allen & Unwin, led to the book being offered to Collins in 1950.”
“Tolkien eventually demanded that they publish the book in 1952. Collins did not; and so Tolkien wrote to Allen and Unwin, saying, ‘I would gladly consider the publication of any part of the stuff.’”
“‘the printing is very good, as it ought to be from an almost faultless copy; except that the impertinent compositors have taken it upon themselves to correct, as they suppose, my spelling and grammar: altering throughout dwarves to dwarfs, elvish to elfish, further to farther, and worst of all elven- to elfin.'”
“Tolkien was re-editing because…Ace Books in the United States published an unauthorised edition….Ace Books were exploiting a copyright loophole which meant they did not have to pay Tolkien or his publishers any royalties.”
If you’re a fan of Tolkien, you may want to go read the full post…
So, If you’ve published, do you have any exploits you’d like to share in the comments about what your child’s been through since they left home? :-)
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