When you publish your own books, you’re always on the lookout for errors.  Of course the most common is the typo.  I work very hard to find and correct all the typos.  Every once in a while though, you have a much bigger mistake.  I’ve just dealt with one of those.

I discovered that on one of the title pages for Astrid Maxxim book 4, it actually had the title for book 3.  This was because I was pasting in the pages from the earlier book (which I knew had correct formatting) and then changed the text.  Well, I forgot to change all of it!

If you are one of the first 24 people to buy Astrid Maxxim and her Hypersonic Space Plane, you’ve got the error.  You should be able to download an updated file from any of the bookstores by now.  Or you could keep it.  I doubt it will ever be as valuable as the Beatles original Here, There, and Everywhere album cover, but you never know.

Saffina Desforges is a writing team that I have been following for a while; a pair of now successful indie authors.  Follow the link to the Saffina Desforges website to read the story of how indie authors (or any authors) are treated by traditional publishers and agents.  You will quickly see why the indie author movement has been gaining steam.

And here is a link to the UK’s Register, describing how in indie books account for 12% of the ebook market.  It goes on to say that most are rubbish.  I would not dispute that there is a lot of crap in the indie book market.  On the other hand, traditional publishers have given us (at least) three books about Snookie.  Well done indeed!