{"id":15381,"date":"2016-09-22T11:43:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T18:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2016\/09\/22\/15381.html"},"modified":"2016-09-22T11:43:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T18:43:00","slug":"bradbury-editions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2016\/09\/22\/bradbury-editions\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradbury editions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I've wondered for years why new printings of the same old mass-market-paperback editions of Bradbury are still on the store shelves, with the type looking like it was photocopied from the 1950s editions. I keep hoping someone will do a modern mass-market-paperback edition.<\/p>\n

But I've now discovered that for the past twenty years, HarperCollins has been publishing nice trade-paperback editions of a lot of his books, now also available as ebooks. So I think it may be time for me to upgrade from my old falling-apart mass-market copies.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the description pages for the HarperCollins editions are rife with typos. For example, the description for The Martian Chronicles<\/cite> starts out:<\/p>\n

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Man, was a a distant shore, and the men spread upon it in wave...<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I think there are four typos in that one sentence. And I found at least one obvious typo in each other description of a Bradbury book that I looked at on the HarperCollins site.<\/p>\n

So I'm hoping that their proofreading was better on the books themselves. We'll see.<\/p>\n

(I've reported the errors via their error-reporting system, and have asked them to have a proofreader take a look at all of the Bradbury-book description pages.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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