Special rare collector's edition

[pbray]

The fifth printing of DEVLIN'S HONOR was apparently done on a Friday the 13th. While the vast majority of the print run was fine, some readers found a key chapter was missing, replaced by a segment from a Stephen King novel. Others reported one or more missing pages.

Now one of those readers has decided to capitalize on the problem by auctioning off his "Extremely Rare Edition!" on e-bay. I hope he makes a killing.

Comments

[karen-w-newton.livejournal.com]

Yet another reason (in addition to ebooks) that publishers need to update their production workflows!

[pbray.livejournal.com]

I was just happy that this guy didn't think this was something I needed to fix. In the past, I've had readers who blamed me for the screwup and expected me to send them a replacement copy, at my expense.

[karen-w-newton.livejournal.com]

Sheesh! People need to stop and think. If your newspaper arrives without a sports section, do you call up the sports reporters and start complaining? Of course not.

Now if you were self-published, I could see griping at you about it. -)

But that kind of error is highly actually highly unlikely in a POD scenario because that workflow is automated from a single PDF file, Typos and mistakes in a self-pub book, now that happens all the time.