Printing errors galore in Deathly Hallows

Kristin Maas, a spokesperson for a bookstore chain, said the grocery chain has made calls to Scholastic Inc, the US publishing giant that sold 8.3 million Deathly Hallows books in the first 24 hours, and will replace any books with errors. Maas did not know how many books had problems.

8220;Printing and distributing 12 million copies of a book is a Herculean task, and it is not surprising at all that some would have printing errors,8221; Scholastic said on Monday.

Sara Sinek, a Scholastic spokesperson, said it took 288 million blocks of text or sections to create 12 million books. 8220;That puts into perspective the huge quantity we are talking about,8221; Sinek said.

A handful of readers on message boards at Amazon.com and eBay have also voiced complaints.