From 090a25f53211cc32b49cccb37f2eaf06ed36139b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:02:49 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] IGN:...

---
 src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/__init__.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/__init__.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/__init__.py
index 856133d1ce..c7d667c831 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/__init__.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/__init__.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ def string_to_authors(raw):
 
 def authors_to_string(authors):
     if authors is not None:
-        return ' & '.join([a.replace('&', '&&') for a in authors])
+        return ' & '.join([a.replace('&', '&&') for a in authors if a])
     else:
         return ''