*blinks*

[erastes]

Gah. Just caught myself using the term “Ms”… in 1921. Eeek.

Someone pointed out a stupid and pretty vital error in Frost Fair too, I’m surprised no-one else has noticed it up to now. I’d better get in touch with Cheyenne and see if they can correct it. PD Publishing couldn’t correct the use of Dracula in Standish which I don’t really get – surely it’s just a case of sending over an amended PDF file? 

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Comments

[baritonejeff.livejournal.com]

Ya can't catch 'em all, honey. I know it's beyond galling since your standards are *so* high (that's a big compliment - smile and say thank you to the delusional man!)

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I'll have to grit me teef I guess. It's just one word, too. *grumbles*

[moons-storm.livejournal.com]

If it's a correction to a print volume, it costs a chunk of money to send revisions to the printer (I know with my printer, they charge me $40 any time I make an internal change to the file). E-books, though, I can't see why corrections can't be made.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Huh, I just ran across Ms in a book set in the 1920s and did a little research. It dates back to the 17th century, apparently. Not in common use the way it is now until the 1960s, though.

[jenniferkoliver.livejournal.com]

It must be so frustrating after a story's been published and you find out there's an error. I honestly don't know how authors retain their sanity when it comes to niggley details. *g* I hope your publisher can help!

[aperfectscar.livejournal.com]

Whilst it might appear that it's just a case of sending over a new PDF the PDF doesn't magically happen. It has to be typeset which means a cost (much as getting something changed in a print version requires the obvious cost of getting it printed (though that would require typesetting too)).

I work with academic journals and an erratum or corrigendum is vastly prefered to having to get something resupplied (though obviously books are somewhat different).

[stacia-seaman.livejournal.com]

If the change is an editorial change, meaning it's not a mistake by the typesetter and/or printer, the publisher is going to have to pay for the typesetter to make that change. For a book that has already been printed, unless it's a major, major error, the publisher is not going to want to pulp the entire print run and print new books. If the book goes into a second printing, the publisher might make the corrections, but then you get into issues like production fees, depending on whether the printer requires a revision fee for a new print file. I think you'll probably also incur production/conversion fees for ebooks if you have a new file that needs to be converted into various ebook formats.

So ultimately it will depend on how big the error is and how much it will cost to make the correction to the book.

[gaedhal.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think you just have to grit your teeth.

I cringed reading references to "homosexuals" in a
book that took place in the U.S. in the 1850's,
but apparently those things don't bother the
majority of readers. But a small mistake won't
sink the thing.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Its a shame, becuase it's just one word. Argh. Don't understand how I could have been so stupid.

[angelabenedetti.livejournal.com]

I remember reading somewhere that Mrs., Miss and Ms. are all abbreviations for "Mistress" that go back several centuries. "Ms." came into use as a marriage-status neutral title recently, but it's been around for a while, so it might well not be an actual error in 1921.

Angie

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I don't see that it would have been used in the way the character used it - better to stick to the old fashioned ways!