Ideally, you would publish your book perfectly the first time, everything would work out nicely, and you’d live your happily ever after publishing fairy tale.

Ah, but it doesn’t always work out that way.

For whatever reason, suppose you’re considering whether or not to unpublish your book.

Before you decide, you should learn exactly what will happen when you unpublish it. Here are some questions you need to ask:

• Will the book disappear completely? If not, in what ways will it remain visible?
• Will the book remain on your author page?
• If you’re only unpublishing one edition, will the reviews stay linked together?
• If you republish a revised version later, will old reviews return?
• How long will it take for the book to be unpublished?

Of course, different publishing services have different policies, as do different online booksellers. So you want to consider all the possibilities.

A book won’t vanish…