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Grammatically incorrect book titles

Posted: 09 Jun 2017, 14:36
by Jaime Lync
I am wondering if a book title is grammatically incorrect, should I correct it or put it back as it is?

Re: Grammatically incorrect book titles

Posted: 09 Jun 2017, 19:33
by Gravy
I'm not sure what you mean?

Re: Grammatically incorrect book titles

Posted: 09 Jun 2017, 19:51
by Jaime Lync
First of all, thanks for taking time out to read and reply Gravy. I am reviewing a book that has a title that uses 'it's' when it should 'its' instead. Should I simply leave the name of the book with the grammatical error or should I correct it? If I correct it, do I put the corrected word in square brackets?
I hope you and everyone else is able to better understand my question now.

Re: Grammatically incorrect book titles

Posted: 09 Jun 2017, 20:27
by Gravy
I'm curious now. Could you pm me the title/author?

Re: Grammatically incorrect book titles

Posted: 09 Jun 2017, 22:22
by Jaime Lync
I hope you got my pm Gravy. I should have included this following question in the first post but it just came to mind.
I am wondering if quotations that include grammatical errors should be fixed by the reviewer. I've been marked down because of a grammatical error in a quotation but I simply didn't bother to worry about grammatical errors in the quotation because I quoted the author word for word and punctuation for punctuation.

Re: Grammatically incorrect book titles

Posted: 10 Jun 2017, 02:46
by Gravy
I'm not sure. @"gali"?

Re: Grammatically incorrect book titles

Posted: 10 Jun 2017, 03:47
by gali
You better contact Scott about it.

I don't think that quotations that include grammatical errors should be fixed by the reviewer, but the reviewer should mention in the review that the author was the one in fault and that the errors are his. The editors have no way of knowing whose fault it is, otherwise.

Re: Grammatically incorrect book titles

Posted: 10 Aug 2017, 13:04
by Steph K
Was it a Book of the Day once? I remember a book being BOTD with a glaring grammatical error in the title. I decided not to read it for that reason. If the author can't proofread the cover, I'm sure the rest of the book is full of errors. And I definitely would mention that in your review. An error in the title is unprofessional and the author should get less stars for that.

Re: Grammatically incorrect book titles

Posted: 30 Sep 2017, 03:34
by BoyLazy
Title can be anything catchy.