With the grow­ing preva­lence of ebook read­ers that can be updated remotely–such as Amazon’s Kin­dle–could the time of the book rid­dled with errors be com­ing to an end?

Errors are com­mon in all forms of media, but it is mis­takes in the printed word that are per­haps the most per­ni­cious. Once a “fact” has been pressed onto paper, it becomes a trusted source, and mis­in­for­ma­tion will mul­ti­ply. The com­bi­na­tion of human fal­li­bil­ity with Gutenberg’s inven­tion of effi­cient print­ing in 1439 has, for all the rev­o­lu­tion­ary advan­tages of the lat­ter, proved (in some respects) to be a toxic mixture.

It’s not men­tioned specif­i­cally in the arti­cle (but is alluded to in the accom­pa­ny­ing image), but I’m inter­ested in how con­sumers will be used to iden­tify these errors.