I was tickled to read that even the newest and supposedly the last in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, suffered a few publishing glitches.
Don’t get me wrong – the launch was obviously hugely successful and is resulting in truly astounding numbers.
But buried way down in the article That 8.3 Million Copies Sold Was Just the Beginning at Publisher’s Weekly is a paragraph that among the millions were a few books that had misprinted or duplicate pages. Apparently the books skip from page 642 to page 707 to 730 then go back to page 675 …read more

If you’ve got a book you want to market to a trade publisher, you should, in addition to checking out the publisher’s web pages and book catalog, read their blog.
Consider Chronicle Books. Their website does a good job describing what they publish. The Chronicle Book Blog can give you insight into what their editors and marketers are actually thinking.
For example, yesterday, Assistant Editor Matt Robinson wrote a screed about wanting to publish more books for men. This is almost as good as having lunch with him. Poke around the blog and you’ll find other heavy weights at Chronicle Books posting …read more