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From: keesan@bbncca.ARPA (Morris M. Keesan)
Newsgroups: net.books
Subject: Re: The game's afoot!
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Date: Wed, 20-Feb-85 10:45:24 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 20 10:45:24 1985
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>/**** ccvaxa:net.books / keesan@bbncca /  5:09 pm  Feb  7, 1985 ****/
>P.S.  Has anyone other than me noticed the blatant typo on the title page of
>"Sherlock Holmes Through Time and Space"?  I mentioned it to Blujay Books'
>director of advertising, marketing, etc., and he said neither he nor anyone
>else at Bluejay had noticed it.
>/* ---------- */
>
>Does Bluejay even have a decent proofreader? Every Bluejay book I've read
>has been full of typos. Since they do a lot of reprints, the Bem suggested
>that it wasn't their fault, that maybe they printed from the original
>plates, but the more I see the more I tend to think they're just sloppy.
>
>						 Wombat
>					 ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!wombat

    I think it's not so much sloppiness, as the fact that Bluejay is still a
very small operation.  The above-mentioned director of advertising, etc. is
something like one third or one quarter of the entire full-time staff of
Bluejay.  This doesn't leave much staff available for proofreading.
-- 
			    Morris M. Keesan
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			    keesan @ BBN-UNIX.ARPA