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Set on a magical, disc-shaped world supported by four elephants who in turn ride atop a gigantic turtle, these masterworks of comic fantasy have collectively sold more than 80 million copies worldwide.

Mark Mancini








Chances are at least one of these books has a typo.

Useful or embarrassing, sometimes typos are forever, perhaps even more in the age of the internet. These are some of publishing’s most memorable blunders.

Meg Van Huygen