"re those advance reading copies (ARCs) of Pattern Recognition that have been popping up on eBay for the last little while.
Those are �uncorrected proof copies�, which means that they are (1) absolutely riddled with errata, and (2) in the case of this book, to some extent a variant text. There is, in particular, a completely annoying failure on the typesetter�s part to keep the email sections in the font allotted to email."
{a glimpse at the burden of proofreading. William Gibson enters the blogplatz.}"I suspect I have spent just about exactly as much time actually writing as the average person my age has spent watching television, and that, as much as anything, may be the real secret here. "
