Commercial audio books are considered to be different editions. Corrections from edition to edition is common. I just read an article about the first edition of Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin. It told how to tell a first edition. On a certain page and on a certain line on that page -- I forget the page and line -- the word species is spelled as speceis. The second edition, which would likely be called a second printing in current publishing, has that error corrected. If you have a first edition with that error then you probably have a book that you can sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars. In the nineteenth century audio books did not exist, but, undoubtedly, if they did they would have been regarded as a seperate edition and would have included the correction.
On 2/16/2012 7:56 AM, Mayrie ReNae wrote:
Hi Jamie,Actually, the audiobook narrators are supposed to leave textual errors in their books, but I rarely hear them either. I suspect that their eyes make the correction without them ever knowing, and they say what they know seems right, even if it isn't written that way, because it's what their eyes expected to see, so didn't see the wrong thing.Does that make any sense at all?Some people should never ever write e-mail before at least one 20-ounce mocha! So I'll stop now!Mayrie*From:* bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Jamie Yates, CPhT*Sent:* Thursday, February 16, 2012 3:20 AM *To:* bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx *Subject:* [bksvol-discuss] Re: hyphenated words between pages.If it is a scanning error we definitely change it. We aren't supposed to change print book errors. Though, I have to say, when I listen to audio books (and I listen to a LOT of them) I *never* hear errors in them like I see in print books. Makes me think that the narrators who read the audio books are allowed to fix print book errors.-- Jamie in Michigan Currently Reading: Mallory's Oracle by Carol O'ConnellSee everything I've read this year at: www.michiganrxtech.com/books.html <http://www.michiganrxtech.com/books.html>
