Ryan Holiday is the bestselling author of many books including Trust Me I'm Lying, The Obstacle is the Way, and Ego is the Enemy. He lives on a ranch in Austin, TX.

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GETTING IT RIGHT

Gay Talese is only the latest red-faced author to publish a book replete with errors—errors a routine fact-check would have caught. Why doesn’t book publishing do a better job?