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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht
I hope you all realize that the author is not responsible for the blurb, someone at the publishing house is. A week ago, I noticed that a freebie had a blurb that used compliment when it should have been complement. The blurb was from a passage in the book, but in the book it was using the correct word. Makes me wonder how that happened, was it originally wrong in the book, but caught before it was released, or did the blurb writer mess it up?
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I don't blame the author, I blame the publisher. But I still don't want to read a sloppy book. This one was of only marginal interest to me, and the mistake tipped the balance against it.