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Message: <blockquote data-quote="l_raty" data-source="post: 3179732" data-attributes="member: 24811">Well, I would not read this article as having the purpose to give every author a chance to issue an erratum.As I see it, the idea is that if there must be an erratum, it should normally always be/end up physically in the work, and should reach all the people who received the work to be corrected. Allowing it to appear in a subsequent issue of the same volume of a journal constitutes an exception (not the rule), which is justified by the facts that (1) the issues of a same journal volume are (or at least used to be) often bound together, hence the erratum is likely to end up as part of the same physical book, and (2) subscription is (or at least used to be) usually on a volume basis, hence the subscribers who received the work are likely to receive the erratum.(Nowadays, with articles sold separately on the Web, it is admittedly not clear that these considerations are still really relevant, though.)</blockquote>