"One Hour Wargames Kindle Misprint" Topic

I bought the paperback on Amazon and was offered the Kindle version for a mere $2.99 USD. Great deal, I wish other publishers would offer a similar deal (note that Two Hour Wargames provides a PDF copy of their rules when you buy a hard copy).

During a lull in the action at work yesterday, I was using the Kindle copy to build a spreadsheet to compare the differences in the period rules and, perhaps, use as a nucleus for a QRS. I was using the Kindle version I had downloaded to my Surface and I had gotten o the Medieval section.

As it urns out there is a misprint in the Kindle version in the movement table. It's an obvious cut-and-paste error in that the table appears to the one in the Dark Age chapter.

The troop types for the Medieval game are Knights, Archers, Men-at-Arms, and Levies. However the movement table, in the Kindle edition only, lists the Dark Age types: Infantry; Skirmishers and Warband; and Cavalry.

I haven't really made a project of proofing the Kindle edition; I found this quite by accident. Does anyone know to whom such an editing error in a Kindle edition would be reported? Amazon? Pen and Sword? The Author?

Pen and Sword has a webpage so contacting them is pretty easy, but I can't find an email address for Neil Thomas. I don't want to write a negative review on Amazon--if I report this error to Amazon I'd like to do it in some other way.

You want to report it to the publisher. They would most likely have been responsible for converting their source to E-pub format, not Amazon, and not the author.

If you report it to Amazon they merely pass it on to the publisher to correct anyway

Mike

I figured that would probably be the case. I know that there are companies that are subcontracted to do conversions of books to ePub and Kindle formats. Not being publisher or author myself, I don't know what the business model is for epublishing is. Honestly, I if I were Amazon, I would offer conversion services and then subcontract it out. One more way to make money, i.e. the sales and the conversion to capitalize on the epublishing market.

Anyhow I'd already sent a not to the publisher. I intended to send note to Neil Thomas just as a courtesy.

Update: I've already received an email from Pen and Sword. My email to them has, indeed, been forwarded to their conversion service for correction.

Well, if nothing else, at least it was in the Kindle version. This can easily be corrected and redistributed back to the customer.

I've got say that I'm impressed with how fast Pen and Sword responded to mw. It was literally minutes.

Well caught and thanks for sorting out.

X-RaysVision: Thanks for pointing this!
My ePub version has the same error and I do not have the print version. I bought it to Pen & Sword: Do you think I should ask them the corrected version?

I don't know about the ePub version as I have a Kindle. Amazon has the ability to "push" publications. I don't know what their policy is concerning this sort of thing. Generally, in the publishing industry, typos are expected and you don't get revision unless you buy it.

This is a little bigger than a simple typo, though, because is essentially makes that chapter (Medieval Rules) unusable. If I were you, I'd simply ask Pen and Sword, pen-and-sword.co.uk what to do. Since you bought it directly from them (Kindle versions are bought through Amazon), they might be able to send a revised copy directly to you.

Many thanks for your answer XRaysVision.