It’s even worse self publishing, because no matter how carefully you proof, you know there will be an error and it will ONLY be your fault. Dammit.
A book I ghost authored years ago: "Caption will go here."
My wife constantly finds them in the information placards at museums. A lot of times in traveling exhibits Every time she finds one I take a picture of her pointing at it.
You see, you actually didn't make a misttake at all when you published it. It's simply that as soon as you open it, The Typo™ manifests itself into the exact page you're at simply to ruin your day.
Husband edited Lady Gregory's Diaries. Correct spellings on the cover. On the first edition, inside the jacket flap, it came out as Lady Gregory's Dairies....an interesting idea but....
My old Del Rey paperback of Peter Beagle's The Last Unicorn, which I reread multiple times in my teens, at one point misspells "creature" as "ceature," and whenever I read one of the newer editions that corrects this error I always feel like something's missing
I’m guessing that all writers have created this rule, or some variant. Mine, from 25 years ago (concerning user manuals) was this: no matter how many times you proof the book, the first page you turn to after it’s printed will have a typo. Almost word-for-word identical.
I wrote a short piece on ethics and digital technology in which I quoted Ted Nelson’s ‘everything is deeply intertwingled’ and a copy editor changed it to ‘intermingled’ and went to press. Now it makes no sense and misquotes Nelson…
The computer scientist Donald Knuth in the 1970s became so frustrated with errors in the typesetting of his CS books that he spent several years developing a new system for scientific authors to layout equations and text. First released in 1978, I wrote my dissertation using TeX and Metafont.
I recently saw a LinkedIn post where a business expert said any typo in a presentation reflects badly on you which is hilarious because that's one hell of a glasshouse to put yourself into.