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Yeah, nice of them to lay part of the blame with Amazon, when they are an agency publisher and insist that THEY are the ones selling the book, not Amazon. And, of course, we all know that Amazon simply sends out the file that they submit. Since it's two of their own authors, it's pretty obvious someone cut and pasted something incorrectly at their end and then didn't proof read it (and not likely the author, as he would not have had access the files). If publishers bothered to just keep their documents that they submit to the printing process, this and other issues (such as all the OCR errors in Hour of the Hunter, which they rescanned entirely, rather than just added a couple of chapters to the existing ebook they had) would disappear -- what they sent to the printers would be what they submit to Amazon, if they had their source clean enough and had a decent converter built. At least for 90% of what they are printing, as most novels really don't need a lot of fancy formatting over and above starting chapters on new pages and some decent indenting of paragraphs.
Had they simply fixed the error and updated everyone's copy, as has been done with many other books in the last year (several of which I received updates from, after being notified by Amazon), of course, that would not have resulted in any press. Instead, we all have heard about Hour of the Hunter one more time and now hear about these two books. Both in conjunction with the publisher being seen as "making things right" (and bashing Amazon in their rush to the spotlight).
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