from today's Chronicle of Higher Ed

[coco_b]

Princeton U. Press Recalls Typo-Filled Book and Says It Will Reprint"Princeton University Press has recalled all copies of one of its spring titles after discovering more than 90 spelling and grammar errors in the 245-page work. The book, Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore’s Eastern District, by Peter Moskos, was published on Thursday in

Comments

[cjmr]

How in the world can any copy-editor (even an inexperienced one) miss ninety spelling and grammar errors?

Mind you, I'm currently reviewing a book that has close to that many formatting errors. I'm hoping that since mine is an Advanced Readers Copy those will all be fixed in the final edition. It'll be interesting to check.

[jluke]

That would be an errata pamphlet.

[anonymous]

Actually, I think this shows (perhaps until now), that they don't "take a lot of pride in the quality of our copy editing". I wonder if this free publicity will make up for the added costs?