Badly proofed e-books

[AnemicOak]

Originally Posted by starrigger

Actually, it is often the seller, not the publisher, who generates the ebook. Contact the seller. FW, Amazon, whoever.

The error might come from the original file. More likely it came from the conversion.

Small nit pick. It's usually the distributor (Lightning Source, OverDrive, FW for multiformat) who generates the various format files based on the source provided by the publisher (many are providing an ePub now it's my understanding). Sometimes that's the same as the seller/retailer, sometimes not.

[Jellby]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Pretty much all the "free" versions of it, PG included, in a paragraph describing the appearance of the cabin of a boat, include a mysterious reference to "banks of yam". I defy anyone to guess what that really should be, without recourse to an original page scan or a printed copy of the book.

The correct text, in case you're wondering, is "hanks of yarn" .

Hmm... Now I wonder if the "Come and have a yarn" I've just read in Wodehouse's Piccadilly Jim is "yarn" or "yam"

[ahi]

A despairing number of books and eBooks of Sun Tzu's "Art of War" that are based on the Project Gutenberg eText have the last sentence of the translation:

Spies are a most important element in water, because on them depends an army's ability to move.

As in:

"Swim, Mr. Bond, those sharks with frickin' laser-beams attached to their heads are after you!"

Of course, in reality, the correct text is:

Spies are a most important element in war, because on them depends an army's ability to move.

But I guess the world is full of people who think that Sun Tzu was weird and mysterious enough to mandate wet-suits for all spies within the Kingdom of Wu.

- Ahi