Thursday 15 October 2009

Typos in international books (1)

I think typos are quite charming. This may have something to do with the fact that all Matahari Books titles have them, damnit!

These are two extracts from a book, Tom Rob Smith's Soviet thriller The Secret Speech, published by the very reputable Simon & Schuster UK:




These two sections have the same error. What is it?

7 comments:

Ezra said...

hmm, "it's" should be "its"?

i was never any good at 'spot the difference'! :(

awan gebu said...

It's "it's".

Amir Muhammad said...

Betul! Stay tuned for the second book!

Chet said...

Even Malcolm Gladwell's book, Outliers, which I'm currently reading, has typos!

Amir Muhammad said...

Coincidence: I am reading BLINK! Bought it 2 years ago after a friend said it changed his life, but then I abandoned it, as I do so many other books that had proven to be life-changing to others. Picked it up again today and couldn't put it down!

Chet said...

Same here! I couldn't get past the first few pages of BLINK! I never finished his other book, The Tipping Point, either. But after Outliers, I'm ready to give both books a second chance. After I read something else, tho.

bibliobibuli said...

OMG the bloody proofreader should be sacked!