I share all my secrets and trials and
errors in my book in regards to recruiting others and making sales.
I also have to say that in the last 5 years or so, I've seen a much higher number
of errors in books published out of New York than I used to.
A few years back, the famous computer scientist Donald Knuth announced that he was no longer giving out checks as rewards for
finding errors in his books, due to fraudulent activity.
They claim to have editors, but either the editors aren't reading the text or they didn't actually pass an English class because, you're right, I'm seeing a LOT
more errors in books coming from this quarter.
Then there are those on the opposite side of the spectrum, those indie authors who spend thousands on editors and still windup
with errors in their book.
There were details that were fun for a while, like the names of their contemporaries and the story lines associated with them, but with the sheer number of
word errors in the book, it's hard to tell if these story lines were researched at all or merely pulled out of the author's imagination.
Do not count on yourself or your significant other to be your last line of defense in
spotting errors in your book, unless of course you or your significant other is an English teacher.
However, there are some steps you can make when writing your book in Microsoft Word that will make the job of formatting your book easier and help
prevent errors in the book formatting process.
Reader - reported errors and fumbles that creep in during revisions Read more about Why did the editor
miss errors in your book?
(Oda's not the first one to mistake this for an estimate of predation across the country, however; Frank Gill made the
same error in his book Ornithology.
The most serious
logical error in the book is his avalanche of local temperatures to refute a theory that posits a global mean.
Self - publishing companies often set authors up for failure with do - it - yourself book design tools that don't work properly (on purpose) and cause
formatting errors in the books.
The famous Twilight series has a
glaring error in book one — we'll skip the discussions of the other five errors — but apparently Bella liked to watch the «dust moats» instead of «dust motes» as they floated around in the vacuum in front of her face.
Once you upload your ebook file (which can be a Word document or one of many other formats), you'll be automatically alerted to
spelling errors in your book; you'll also be informed if the file conversion went poorly.
Our first post on Crichton's new novel «State of Fear» hits most of the key points, though there are a few
more errors in the book that we hope to expand upon in future posts.
You can have a team of 20 people looking
for errors in your book and still, when it's finally published, your second cousin will call you to tell you there's a typo on page 276.
Since the Portuguese suspected the presence
of errors in the books, they all became casualties in the auto - da - fe programme launched by the Portuguese padroado authorities at the close of the 16th century and later.
Because people would see one
error in this book, therefore there might be other errors in it.
Among
the errors in the book are the following: the wild progenitor of wheat, emmer, did not grow «only in the upper Jordan Valley around Jericho» — it grew in the hills of the Mediterranean zone (Galilee, Lebanon, southern Anatolia) and was brought into the arid Jordan valley by Neolithic farmers who learned to grow it under irrigation.
I have had many discussions with cell biologist PhDs about this idea that glutamine turns to glutamate at will, and they all say that this is a misstatement, and are particularly critical of Russell Blaylock for making
this error in his book.
Although
the errors in his book demonstrate the most extreme examples of student confusion, they do raise questions about how well prepared students are in the areas of history and geography, about what they should know, and what they're being taught.
Errors in the book's description indicate that the book will be full of them, too.
You are requested to take time during the final proofing to make sure that there are
no errors in the book.
In fact, we are so confident in the quality of our work that if you do happen to find
an error in your book after you sign - off on the project, we will fix it at no extra cost for up to two years after the sign - off date.
Grammatical, spelling and formatting
errors in books and e-books are becoming more commonplace, but do overstretched publishers give a damn?