The Future Of Publishing Blog by Thad McIlroy

BOOKISHNESS Fail: The Case of Hugh Howey’s “Wool”

April 24th, 2013

BOOKISHNESS: The Case of Murakami’s 1Q84

The signed and numbered edition of Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84 is limited to exactly 111 copies. The front and back covers are printed on Somerset, a 100 percent cotton archival paper, using a Swiss-made 1963 Gietz Art Platen hand-fed letterpress. The covers were handprinted by Justin Knopp at Typoretum. Text pages printed and bound by Graphicom, Verona. The text design…

April 3rd, 2013

Reading the 2012 Bestseller Lists

The era of the wide-open and transparent web met its match when the largest etailer in the land, Amazon.com, decided that honesty is not necessarily the best policy. It’s not that Amazon lies. It’s just that it grossly generalizes, sometimes misleadingly so. Last month when Bowker offered a detailed chart revealing that 43.8% of trade…