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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Morrow" data-source="post: 2070109" data-attributes="member: 27012">Random House when it was still owned by Newhouse in the late-1980s/early-1990s.  The Vintage Books imprint.  The nice thing about doing book production for a really large publisher is that when the printers screw up a cover or book, you can say, "I think you should reprint this for free," and they'll do it.  Of coruse there's nothing you can do when the art and editorial departments really screw up.  Somewhere I should have a copy of a book with the author's name spelled differently on the front cover and the spine.  It should be one of only a handful of office samples that survived destruction.  The really sad thing is that we even produced press proofs of the cover and nobody noticed until the books were bound.  Then there was the truck full of books that ran off the road and into a swamp.  I had to figure out if they could safely burn the muddy books and that's when I realized that they were still using animal-based glue in the bindings of books.  I really enjoyed working in publishing but I think they actually pay better at fast food restaurants.</blockquote>