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Yes, I'm talking about commercial books including new titles.
I'm currently reading "A User's Guide to the Universe: Surviving the Perils of Black Holes, Time Paradoxes, and Quantum Uncertainty." from Amazon. This book has just come out on hardback. Yesterday I was reading a section involving coin flips and randomness. Half way through the page, I find this:
"... When you Hip a coin a million times, you'll very likely Hip heads... ...If Louie and Dave Hip..." (location 1106)
And earlier in the book:
"Much like a pot of water, a particular can bubble into the vacuum, with the caveat that it doesn't last very long." (location 845) I assume they mean a "particle"
There are other mistakes, I've just not made notes of them. The first set (flips => Dips) looks like an OCR error. WTF are they doing with OCR on a new book?
I read the whole Narnia series from Amazon and found minor mistakes in most books, particularly in The Last Battle. In Dr. Golem from the Sony book store there were several typos and the text was badly formatted.
How do we go about setting up a Hall of Shame?
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