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Originally Posted by John F
If I was the publisher, I would like to think I could find the errors myself. Asking a customer to find and report so many errors shows a lack of effort by the publisher.
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Four years ago I bought and read the book "Big Bang", by Simon Singh, in spanish translation (hardcover pbook), published in Spain by "Ediciones de Intervención Cultural" through its imprint "Biblioteca Buridán".
Unfortunately, there were all sorts of errors: typos ("Humanson" and "Dowell" instead of "Humason" and "Lowell"), copy-paste with partial edition (in the case of comparison tables like on geocentric and heliocentric models and Big Bang and Steady State models), substitutions ("oxigen" instead of "hidrogen"), etc.
I decided to email Simon Singh about this. The book is great and deserved a better edition. I even attached a list of errors. He forwarded my message to his agent, who, believe it or not, asked me if I would like to read the book again and send a complete list of errors, as the publisher was not very helpful!