John, In the old days, a smaller number of pages were assembled into 'books', then the 'books' were bound into a larger volume to complete the finished product. It sounds like you have a shuffled set of parts and are missing some as well. Regards, Bob S.
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 9:28 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > My copy "Portrait Of A Decade" arrived and it's f&&ked up! I want a > replacement. > > I know some of you have experience in the world of bookselling & publishing. > I'm wondering if there's any special terminology I need to use in describing > the problem to the place I bought the book from? > > The copy I have is missing whole sections & other sections are duplicated. > > It has the acknowledgments, the introduction, the table of contents & a > title page. The first chapter begins on page 3. But after page 4, the next > page is page 53. The whole first part of the book is missing. > > I have pages 53 through 68, then it skips to page 85. Pages 69 through 84 > are missing. > > I have pages 85 through 100, then it skips back to page 69, so that I do > have pages 69 through 84, they're just not in order. And I've got duplicate > pages 85 through 100. > > Starting with page 101 the rest of the book seems to be in order. > > There is nothing wrong with the binding. There are no loose pages or any > gaps where pages might have come out of the book. > > It appears the book was assembled with the missing and duplicated pages when > it was printed and bound. > > Does the publishing business have any technical term for this kind of error > in assembly that would help me to explain what the problem is when I contact > the seller. > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1375 / Virus Database: 1509/3666 - Release Date: 05/28/11 > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
