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Originally Posted by Russell Brooks
Last year, bestselling British author, Jonathan Frazen, had the nightmare of his life when over 80,000 copies of his newly-released novel, Freedom, were recalled due to the fact that it was an unfinished version that accidentally went to print.
If you purchased an eBook or a paperback novel and you found a few typos (less than ten out of 70,000 words) would you still inform the author? Some people are fussier than others. What number of typos would be your breaking point? |
I'm looking at this from a "Do unto others..." standpoint. If someone found typos in a book (or short story, or basically anything) that I released, I'd want to know about it so that I could go and fix the errors immediately. I actually had a few typos that a reader let me know about, and I did just that.
Of course, it matters
how you let the author know. I would only be angry about it if the work was rife with errors. Otherwise, a note about how "I enjoyed the work, but there are a few things you might want to fix" would be how I'd approach it.