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Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind by Ellen F. Brown

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Aug 08, 11

bookshelves: 2011-read
Read from August 07 to 08, 2011

Adolph. Seriously, how can anyone think that Hitler's name was spelled "Adolph"? And yet the author perpetuates the error twice. Entirely bizarre in a book devoted to the minutiae of publishing and selling one particular book.

Rant not quite over. It's Gone with the Wind. Small "w". Another bizarre error. Is the author trying to improve on Margaret Mitchell? And how many citations required her to make the change in capitalization without noting it? Or at least explaining in the notes why she made that editorial call?

OK, for all that, this was an entertaining read about stuff that's pretty dry on the face of it--the labor of getting a book into print and then overseeing all the copyright and other legal ramifications as it proves to be immortal. But I'm annoyed enough about the errors cited and other poor choices in the sometimes clunky text that I'm docking a star.

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