‘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.