This amazing article from the Guardian showed up via Electric Literature's Facebook feed:
"Shift Dropped on Author After Typo in Her Romantic Novel."
Looks like this poor author's week is off to a "shitty" start.
Interesting that this typo only showed up in the e-books. Is there a different editing process for e-books as opposed to print editions? Can a typo (or other mistake) be retroactively corrected in all e-books easily, or does the publisher have to issue a whole new e-book edition?
I also wonder about how the ebook edits work.
ReplyDeleteReally though, not only is the typo hilarious, but the Guardian article is getting passed around like crazy (at least in my circles), so I bet her sales are climbing steadily.
Truly hilarious. In my imagination it's fixable this way: Publisher corrects the words, saves the file, allows buyers to re-download the correct version for free. It's probably far more complicated—if someone wants to volunteer to track down that information that would be cool. Just call up an e-book publisher, ask about the editing process. Takers?
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like a great idea, Paige. I've been digging around, looking for editors who market themselves as e-book editors, but no go so far--Makes me think that editors are not working exclusive in print or e-book. I'll shoot an email over to a colleague I have at Electric Literature-- they publish an e-magazine and I imagine they must have dealt with a typo or mistake that needed to be corrected.
ReplyDeleteAs a side-note, as I Googled this subject, I came across an interesting article on the need for editors in self-published works. I never thought that writers would resist a careful editor's eye before exposing their work to the world, but I guess times they are a'changing. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2011/jun/16/ebook-needs-good-editor
(Forgive me-- I don't know how to put a link in a comment thread. I'll work on this.)