Friday, July 01, 2011

Printing Error

About a month ago I ordered a book as a gift for my boyfriend through Amazon. He began reading it immediately, only to discover that the copy I ordered had a major printing error. When he completed reading page 146, the following page was a re-print of page 115. In fact, pages 115-146 are printed twice in this copy. This wouldn't be such a problem if page 147 followed after the second page 146; however, this time the book jumps from page 146 to page 179, so he's missing out on a decent section of the book. Does anyone have suggestions about what to do about this? Should I contact Amazon? The publisher? Just give up & buy a new copy? (I saw a correctly-printed copy of the book on the shelves at A Cappella Books in Atlanta.) Suggestions welcome.

4 comments:

Janet Holmes said...

It's happened to us at Ahsahta (before my time, but the books were in inventory). People contacted us and we replaced the book with a good copy. I suspect other publishers would do the same (and then talk sharply with their printers!). Good luck.

Janet

gina said...

Thanks, Janet!

jen said...

When this happened to me, I'd bought the book from a brick-and-mortar bookstore, so I actually just exchanged it there. You could probably do the same through Amazon, but maybe it makes more sense to contact the publisher directly.

gina said...

Thanks, Jen!