Quote:
Originally Posted by alecE
Whatever happened to the ideas of quality and imagination in publishing ebooks?
Today I logged on to Transworld who publish the Discworld series in the UK. At last, the full set of titles is there. So I downloaded #1, 'The Colour of Magic'. And find:
Table of contents reads ..."Thek Sending of Eight - Prologue"; and the same typo is present in the actual chapter heading as well. What really annoys me is that the paper version does not have this error!
|
I bought them all from Fictionwise, back when they were $5.77 each (after member discount). They're now $10.19 at
Fictionwise, which makes the £7.34 that
Random House are asking only look a bit ridiculous, rather than totally ridiculous.
Of course, both prices are really silly compared to the $7.99 for a new paperback at
Amazon.com, or the £4.96 at
Amazon.co.uk.
But I suppose pricing is a separate issue, which I probably shouldn't have brought up.
I'm almost curious enough to buy the UK version, to see how much of the text Harper Collins changed for the US version - whether it was just spelling, or, as with the Harry Potter books, they changed any of the actual words as well.
I can confirm that they managed to get "The Sending of Eight" right.