Big Ass Typo Caught in the 11th Hour
An unfortunate reality of micro-press publishing.
All publishing really, but potentially more so with smaller publishing (fewer eyes).
Not nearly as unfortunate as not catching it before the ISBN is approved and the author/review copies ordered.
It was caught.
Deep breath.
posted by RL @ 11:09 AM
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Changing the chapbooks (without ISBNs) is easy.
Yes, but when you approve global distribution for an ISBN -- it makes it very difficult to make changes after the fact -- you can usually fix things like typos, but not add pages, change content, etc. - the case with any book with an ISBN. It probably would have been possible to fix this particular mistake after the approval
-- BUT --
POD or not, there's still a print run, author copies, review copies, copies to sell at readings (which I buy at once to get a printing discount) in this particular case adds up to 200 -- and if those were printed, or just ordered, before the mistake was caught -- that's a lot of copies and couldn't afford to order an additional 200 copies.
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