‘The Errors Tour’: Fans Com­plain Tay­lor Swift’s Self-Pub­lished Book Full Of Typos, Lay­out Issues

Tay­lor Swift’s book about her mas­sive­ly pop­u­lar Eras Tour was released on Black Fri­day, prompt­ing fans to line up to pur­chase a copy. But now those same buy­ers are express­ing their frus­tra­tion on social media about all of the typos and lay­out issues in the 256-page cof­fee table book.

“The Eras Tour Book,” along with a vinyl and CD ver­sion of “The Tor­tured Poets Depart­ment: The Anthol­o­gy,” debuted exclu­sive­ly at Tar­get for a sale price of $39.99. Fans wait­ed in line overnight after Thanks­giv­ing for a chance to nab their copy, and it became an instant best­seller, mov­ing an extra­or­di­nary 814,000 copies over the hol­i­day week­end.

That made it the biggest pub­lish­ing launch of 2024, per Bill­board.

But now that fans have had a chance to page through the book, which fea­tures more than 500 pho­tos from The Eras Tour and some of Swift’s thoughts about it, they’re point­ing out mul­ti­ple prob­lems. Some have even nick­named it “The Errors Tour.”

These mis­takes like­ly stem from the fact that the 34-year-old singer chose to self-pub­lish instead of going through tra­di­tion­al pub­lish­ing chan­nels. The book was released through Tay­lor Swift Pub­li­ca­tions. 

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I know I’m not the only one dis­ap­point­ed with the Eras Tour book, but I haven’t seen any­one else talk about the glar­ing­ly obvi­ous gram­mat­i­cal errors and clunky sen­tences with­in the pages. I make this video with peace, love, and a gen­er­al frus­tra­tion about how easy many of these prob­lems could have been fixed with one more set of edit­ing eyes. This book just had so much poten­tial, and with a lit­tle tweak­ing it could have been absolute­ly spec­tac­u­lar. #eras­tour­book #errors­tour #book­tok

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Some exam­ples include the “Folk­lore” song “This Is Me Try­ing,” which appears in the book as “This Is Me Rying,” per Busi­ness Insid­er. The song “Gold Rush,” from “Ever­more,” appears as one word in the book but is sup­posed to be two.

The book also incor­rect­ly lists the singer’s Toron­to tour stops as “Novem­ber 14–16, 22–23,” ignor­ing the show she also played there on Novem­ber 21.

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As for the insid­er snip­pets from Swift, many are say­ing the book includ­ed unnec­es­sary com­mas and had the same words in con­sec­u­tive lines, as well as “clunky sen­tences.” Fans also said they want­ed more behind-the-scenes details.

“I thought there would be a lot more lit­tle blurbs about the mak­ing of the show,” one pur­chas­er told BI. “Not full essays, but like, ‘Oh, here’s me behind stage,’ you know, lit­tle things and a few more behind-the-scenes pic­tures.”

Typos aren’t the only issue being called out. After many fans expressed dis­may over the cov­er image, which shows Swift mak­ing a face they say is weird, they also noticed that the image lay­outs through­out the book seem off. In some cas­es, it’s hard to see the pho­tos that span across mul­ti­ple pages, and they say some images look blur­ry.

“Maybe that’s styl­is­tic and cute to some peo­ple, but that’s a mis­take to me,” one Tik­Tok user said.

Some fans com­plained of pages being print­ed upside down. Social media is full of Swifties post­ing exam­ples of the mis­takes.