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Originally Posted by Hitch
Perhaps you were commatose when you wrote it. ;-)
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You just couldn't help yourself, could you?
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Yes, and this will CONTINUE to happen. You, Diap, have heard me rant about this topic before. While there may well be some valid good reasons, for everyday readers to report "typos" to publishers, this tattletale mindset is not helpful. NONE of these people would have emailed Random House, etc., about these miniscule mistakes, had they bought the books in paper. Nor would they hae expected that RH would turn around, say "oh, my GOD!!! typos! The Humanity!," recalled the books and reprinted them, would they?
But, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, now that people think that every book out there is typed in a day and uploaded in Word, bygod, the instant gratification squad is in full flight, insisting that authors and publishers hop to and fix everything--even if they are bloody utterly WRONG--right away.
I find typo and formatting errata in scads of books that I read. Do you really think that I email all the authors, publishers, or Amazon, commenting about how they have to fix the damn things? I found typos in Annie Lamott's "Bird by Bird." Did I report them? Hell no. Why? Because it's a BOOK. I wouldn't do it if the book was in print; I won't do it just because it's now in a digital format.
Hitch
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Well, I have no problem with people reporting errors. But I think to be fair, Amazon has to be balanced about it too. If one or two people report errors, don't pull the book without manual review.
Error reporting is a valuable tool, but any tool can and usually is abused.
Ideally, such reports would be available to the publishers, who would have the opportunity to
include the fixes in the next revision of the book at their leisure. And it would be left to them to decide whether the issue is bad enough to make them worried about sales.
Reports should be balanced against the number of sales, and trigger manual review when there can be doubt of the authenticity.