How Much Do You Think This Cost the House?
So, I was all excited to get Mary Gaitskill's collection Don't Cry in from Amazon.
And then I opened the book. Guess what? The press made a huge error and the collection starts not with a cover page and table of contents and publisher information, but with the first story. And the story is printed upside down! And the title, content page, etc. are also upside down, and they appear on page 20-some instead of one. Ha! How many suckers were printed like this? And how much do you think it cost the house? I was going to send my copy back, but I rather like it as a goof. A major, major house goof.
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Wouldn't you be hugely upset at this, Sandy? It sounds like a horrible error. Are the table of contents in there at all? Weird...yet, neat.
I would probably like it as a good as well...as long as it wasn't something of mine that was published that way.(Hugs)Indigo
I love finding goofs!! I found a typo in something recently - a novel. I was so excited. WHY? haha
Stephanie! I would have been hugely upset. I WOULD have cried, actually. I wonder how Gaitskill felt about it? She's a pro and probably handled it better but I'm sure she was miffed...Who wouldn't be?
Heh, Indigo, I know what you mean!! I'm hoping this was only in a run of 100 or something and that not too, too many were messed up. I think even if a print run is 30,000 or whatever, the print in smaller increments.
Jean, I've found typos and errors in books from major houses, too. Makes me remember that we're all human because man the amount of eyes on a book in production is a LOT just to keep these things from happening, but still...some can get through.
So how does something like this happen?? Aren't these things proofed and proofed again and AGAIN? Imagine the poor schmuck who's responsible for this, how s/he must be feeling...
I have no idea how it happens, but mistakes can and do happen. Yeah: I was thinking the same thing, like wow...wonder what the in-house fallout was like, if anything? Or maybe they are accepting of some mistakes? Even big ones? It's hard to know. Most people I dealt with during my process were very easy going and hugely humane. But we didn't have many glitches. This seems pretty big to me.
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