Upon its release on Black Friday, Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour Book—available from Target only—became an instant bestseller and the fastest-selling release of the year, at 814,000 hardcovers sold in two days. Circana BookScan noted it is “the second-highest adult nonfiction release in BookScan history, just behind Barack Obama’s A Promised Land, which sold 816,300 print units in its first week of sales.”
That said, rather than focus on its sales success, some outlets took obvious pleasure in reporting on the array of typos and other problems that readers discovered, leading some to call it “The Errors Tour Book.”
Jane Friedman has spent her entire career working in the publishing industry, with a focus on business reporting and author education. Established in 2015, her newsletter The Bottom Line provides nuanced market intelligence to thousands of authors and industry professionals; in 2023, she was named Publishing Commentator of the Year by Digital Book World.
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