Printed books, esp. older ones had a lot more constraints (print deadline) and don't have the same ability to update the master copy and push the corrections ou

Printed books, esp. older ones had a lot more constraints (print deadline) and don't have the same ability to update the master copy and push the corrections out --- there isn't an excuse for a book which has been continuously in print since 1965 still having a typo in it decades after it was first released as an ebook. In my experience print editors are far more receptive of being informed of errors than ebook editors --- often an ebook seems not to have had an editor at all, certainly no one proofread the copy of _Space Cadet_ I bought on the Sony ebook store for my Sony PRS-505 --- it was so rife with errors as to be unreadable, and required that I borrow a print edition from a local library so as to be able to send in the corrections.