Revised Editions: How to post?

[LadyLily]

Hello, everyone! I'm faced with sort of a dilemma. I am revising most of my novels, some with minor updates and others with major changes. I have informed all of my subscribers of the upcoming revisions, so that's out of the way.

The problem? Where do I upload the revisions?

Here on Tapas, obviously, but -- and this will seem like a no-brainer -- do I create a brand new published novel (with "Revised Edition" in the title), or do I somehow edit the existing version?

I know it seems obvious to just upload the revised editions as brand new novels. I think what's making this hard for me is how long it took for the views on the existing versions. I have an okay amount of subscribers, but most of my readers aren't subscribers because they aren't members of this site. I don't want to have to build up my view count all over again because that view count is one of my marketing points. If I must, I must. If I can find a better way than totally scrapping the old version, I would prefer that.

This leads me to my second problem: What do I do with the old version? It doesn't look like Tapas allows for a novel to be unpublished without deleting it entirely. I don't want to do that. I don't want to lose comments or the dates of publishing because it's sentimental to me.

Ideas?

Thanks!

[lomamadoualpha47]

ay un vrai dilemme c'est compliqué

[ThunderChicken]

What I did when I "polished" Wild Nights, Hot and Crazy days was to edit each episode. When you edit an episode you can choose to notify subscribers that you've changed it, and this way you don't lose comments, subscribers, likes, etc.

With Defining Daecon, which was a complete rewrite of Finding Daecon's Way, I started a new series and posted a final episode under FDW stating that the series would no longer update, and to follow Defining Daecon instead. I also edited the first page of FDW with a note at the top of the chapter stating that any new readers should start with Defining Daecon instead of reading FDW.

[LadyLily]

I've added so many chapters, so that wouldn't work. It's a great idea but the revisions are so immense.