The publisher releases a pre-official copy to a wide audience for error trapping prior to official release.
On 9 April 2012 08:47, Hannu Kokko <Hannu.Kokko_at_RHE5IMMhyluTlG9ln4NKbMbFNUxxuZVQ4INFXWk86B9yOVhVRQ7oEWDNpKCZxukCByYlMGFtxL3S3w.yahoo.invalid> wrote:
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> Love the book so far (300 pages read so far). The errors I have found are
> very very few.
> it would be lovely if the city map would also be available as a full page
> map as a separate pdf like the Rubble map is.
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> The book will provide ages of playing material...
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> --h
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> By the way, what is an ARC?
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> > > Considered ARCs? I'd certainly stump up my thirty bucks for a draft
> copy if
> > > I could trade it in for a finalized one after a spot of proof reading.
> And
> > > if that got the cash flowing a little faster, so muchthe better.
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> > There were ARCs aplenty. If the extent of errors are as minor as what
> people have identified so far, I think we have done far better than what
> the rule of thumb was for the UW Law Review or for a brief to the Supreme
> Court. If there are less than a half-dozen mistakes in a book of over
> 220,000 words, I'm really not concerned in the slightest.
> >
> > Jeff
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One day I feel I'm ahead of the wheel
And the next its rolling over me...
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