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Wednesday, June 6, 2012

ebook version replaces word 'kindle' with 'nook'

This is rather comical... sounds like an example of batch editing fail...

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Philip Howard discovered something odd about the copy of “War and Peace” he purchased for his new Nook:
Every instance of the word “Kindle” had been clumsily replaced with the word “Nook.”
I purchased Superior Formatting’s 99-cent edition of the classic novel, too, and Howard’s right: There are some hilarious incidents of butchered Tolstoy in this bad boy (page numbers from my now-treasured Nook edition):

    Captain Tushin, having given orders to his company, sent a soldier to find a dressing station or a doctor for the cadet, and sat down by a bonfire the soldiers had Nookd on the road. (P. 670)

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/176322/nook-edition-of-war-and-peace-replaces-every-kindle-with-nook/

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