How Amazon Fixes Errors in Kindle Books

Here’s a bit of good info from this month’s print edition of Wired (we couldn’t find the article online). In “Every Day They Rewrite the Book,” Steven Levy, who frequently writes about gadgets for Wired, offers a short account of how an error in a Simon & Schuster Kindle eBooks was fixed by the folks at Amazon.

In his Kindle copy of I, Sniper, Levy noticed the title had been misprinted as “I, Snipper.” “I thought I was about to nestle into a tale of tough guys who take out human targets…but this promised to be the autobiography of a mohel.”

So,

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