Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:41:30 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>, <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Tpyos ... [WSFA] Re: Shopping online?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

At 12/21/2005 03:03 PM, Michael Walsh wrote:
> > twhite8 at cox.net 12/21/2005 12:52:29 PM >>>
> >Mike B. wrote:
> >
> >[...]
> >>
> >>  BTW, is there any market for paperbacks with printing mistakes
> >on the
> >>  cover? I have an extra copy of a David Drake book that I just
> >>  noticed has one of the printing runs offset from where it should
>be
> >>  (i.e. the cover looks normal, but the metallic overprint of the
>title
> >>  is shifted 1/2" or so up and left of where it should be). I know
>
>If a mass market produced book, almost certainly the only value will be
>a chuckle...

Ok, thanks!  Just wondering.

>OTOH, when Night Shade  (a small press) released GODS OF DARKNESS by
>the late Karl Edward Wagner, they discovered a typo on the back flap.
>Most of the copies were rejacketed, but a number made it out into the
>free world...
>
>The typo?  His name was spelled Karl Edward Wanger.  Karl would have
>loved it.

When I was in Berlin a while back I noticed a Gibson translation in a
bookstore.  The English title is "Neuromancer", but the German book was
titled "Neue Romanceur" ("New Romancer").  Kinda makes you wonder about
other things that got translated from other languages, eh?

-- Mike B.

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