​Who published

Roget's Thesaurus?

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​On the second page of the foreword to Self Publishing Simplified, Outskirts Press boss Brent Sampson refers to "off-set" printing, with a hyphen between the "off" and the "set." The term also appears on four other pages in the book.



That's a really stupid error, especially for a book publisher.



The correct term is "offset," and it's been that way for over 100 years.



The book has a foreword written by Sampson. Forewords are not supposed to be written by the author. Sampson should have called it a preface or an introduction or hired someone else to write the foreword.



According to Sampson, "Peter Mark first published the Thesaurus in 1852" -- strangely ignoring the much more famous Peter Roget who published his Thesaurus in the same year.



Actually, Mark was the middle name of Peter Mark Roget, so Sampson was two-thirds right.



He also says getting an ISBN number (the unique identification number for each format of a book) is a "headache." Sorry, Brent, that's just not true. I ordered ten ISBNs in about five minutes. All I needed was my keyboard and a credit card. I never touched the Tylenol bottle.



On his company's website, Sampson says, "Errors in your writing cause readers to question your credibility." I question his.