Missing/Blank Pages in Trek Novels

[Joanna McCoy-Kirk]

I recently bought a copy of The Good That Men Do from Amazon, and last night I noticed that there were about 15 blank pages in the middle of the book. I decided it was too much trouble to send it back to Amazon (and another copy might have the same problem), so I bought an ebook of the novel. I've only been reading Trek novels for the past couple of years, and I was wondering how often this happens.

 

[William Leisner]

I recently bought a copy of The Good That Men Do from Amazon, and last night I noticed that there were about 15 blank pages in the middle of the book. I decided it was too much trouble to send it back to Amazon (and another copy might have the same problem), so I bought an ebook of the novel. I've only been reading Trek novels for the past couple of years, and I was wondering how often this happens.

Often enough (across the entire publishing scene, not just Trek books)that most booksellers will give you no trouble if you go in to exchange it, like title for like title.

 

[ALF]

^^ as stated above, absolutely. In fact, it's probably not an isolated printing error.
Do ahead and contact the publisher, likely they'll send you another free of charge and not expect you to return the copy you have.

After all, what can they do with it?? Good book, BTW.

 

[Sto-Vo-Kory]

My copy of "The Good That Men Do" has that same printing error.

 

[Turbo]

My copy of Voyages of Imagination actually had about 40 pages missing, which some others reported as well. I simply contacted Amazon and asked for a replacement. They shipped it out the next day, and had me return the bad copy in to them in the same box. Easy as pie.

 

[dave_R_treker]

My copy of Voyages of Imagination actually had about 40 pages missing, which some others reported as well. I simply contacted Amazon and asked for a replacement. They shipped it out the next day, and had me return the bad copy in to them in the same box. Easy as pie.

Though did you have to pay for the return postage?

 

[Therin of Andor]

Though did you have to pay for the return postage?

Of course not.

I assume they provided a post paid sticker or code. Amazon has always been very prompt (and generous) in correcting errors, in my experience. It's rare they require the material back, but perhaps they wanted a copy to show Pocket in case it was the first of a really bad batch.

I've only been reading Trek novels for the past couple of years, and I was wondering how often this happens.

If you have ever watched mass market printing presses run, I'm surprised there aren't more printing errors in the publishing industry. So much is computer driven now, and I doubt there are as many humans on the "assembly line" doing quality control. When an error occurs, it will be numerous copies that get through before someone notices.

As I said recently, the only first edition ST book with a consistent error in all copies concerned some pages of cropped text in "Stargazer: Oblivion". The error was corrected for the second edition and Marco arranged for PDFs of the missing text pages to be available for download from the Simon & Schuster website.

 

[Turbo]

Though did you have to pay for the return postage?

Of course not.

I assume they provided a post paid sticker or code. Amazon has always been very prompt (and generous) in correcting errors, in my experience. It's rare they require the material back, but perhaps they wanted a copy to show Pocket in case it was the first of a really bad batch.

Yeah, they provided the return postage. I suppose it could've been a bad batch, but I recall a couple other people having the same issue, so YMMV on it going back.

 

[BrotherBenny]

I'm lucky that I've not had any luck like that so far *touch wood*

 

[Deano2099]

Oh thanks for posting this. On the off-chance I checked my copy of TGTMD and it has the same error. Fortunately I only bought it a few months back from Amazon Marketplace so can hopefully get it swapped.

 

[Cap'n Crunch]

Several years ago I bought the hardcover of New Frontier: Stone and Anvil. It came with a CD that had PDFs of all the previous NF novels. Strangely enough it was the novels on the CD that had blank pages.

 

[Sisko_is_my_captain]

I once got a trek book, I forget which one, that had improperly cut pages. They were rectangular, like you'd expect, but there were extra tabs of a triangular shape that were folded down. Sort of like dog ears, but extra paper attached to the regular page, if that makes sense. Kind of interesting, but it didn't impair my ability to read.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Several years ago I bought the hardcover of New Frontier: Stone and Anvil. It came with a CD that had PDFs of all the previous NF novels. Strangely enough it was the novels on the CD that had blank pages.

That was because there was an unexpected Adobe Acrobat software upgrade between the production of the disc and it being distributed. Pocket Books offered instructions on their website for how anyone who'd already done an upgrade on their computer could again obtain a free earlier edition of the correct Acrobat so the disc would work. The discs weren't faulty, just incompatible with the latest software upgrade.

 

[dave_R_treker]

I just remembered a few years back, when the Klingon Dictionary first came out, the copy I bought was missing like 16 or so pages.