Hi Mozee
Practical Electronics for Inventors is a very good book that manages to explain some quite complex aspects of electronics in simple and direct terms without too much math either. Of course, a professional engineer would find it a touch elementary but that is true of any introductory book in any field.
I am afraid that errors are endemic in books, especially technical books, so don't let that put you off this book. As for reporting the errors to the publishers or authors, you may as well pee into the wind. In general, there is no mechanism for correcting errors. Sure you can report an error to the author/publisher and you will possibly get a nice reply thanking you and saying what a valuable customer you are- computers are very polite. Some authors/publishes even have erratas on their sites which you would think would be the answer, but this is just a facade in most cases.
But as to getting corrections embodied- forget it. One of the main reasons is the cost and logistics. Just imagine what it would cost to update and republish a book! So you just have to live with errors and not just errors in books; the net is full of errors and misinformation.
About errors. The gross (macro) errors are easy to spot and good fun: 'the collector current of the BC546 will be 70A' But it is the little errors (micro) that are often hard to detect and cause the most problems: 'The HFE of a BC546 transistor is Ib/Ie' Some of the worst are in math and programming books, where it is not always easy to spot a mistake, which is subtle. Herbert Schildt, one of the best authors on software, is famous for errors- his books are splattered with them.
Recently, I was doing C# on the the latest Windows Visual Studio and had an excellent book on the subject. But the very first code sample had a line missing which meant that it would not run. That took me half a day to sort out.
There is a tendency to assume that anything that is in print or on the net has a certain authority and must be true, but this is a fallacy. And when you get to the media, you can pretty much assume that the information is untrue, hearsay, speculation, or opinion being stated as fact.
Nearly all of my many books are in electronic form, and I regularly edit them to correct errors.