The Future Of Publishing Blog by Thad McIlroy

Books and Reports

Book Publishing Startups in the US, 2022, Thad McIlroy, San Francisco, Publishers Weekly, 2022

We Need to Talk About the Backlist, The Future of Publishing Blog, 2021.

COVID-19 and Book Publishing: Impacts and Insights for 2021, with Cliff Guren and Steve Sieck. The Future of Publishing, 2021.

An Authoritative Look at Book Publishing Startups in the United States, Thad McIlroy, San Francisco, The Future of Publishing, 2017

Mobile Strategies for Digital Publishing: A Practical Guide to the Evolving Landscape, Thad McIlroy, Blue Ash, OH, Digital Book World, an imprint of F+W Media, Inc., 2015

The Metadata Handbook: A Book Publisher’s Guide to Creating and Distributing Metadata for Print and Ebooks, 2nd Edition, co-author with Renée Register, Columbus, OH, DataCurate, 2015. The Spanish translation, El manual de los metadatos (2015), is available from The Spanish Digital Link.

Adobe’s Designs on Web Analytics: The Omniture Acquisition, Thad McIlroy, San Francisco, The Future of Publishing, 2009

Composition, Design, and Graphics chapter (with contributions from Frank Romano) in The Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing, New York, NY, Columbia University Press, January, 2003

From Design to Distribution in the Digital Age: A Guide to Print Media Production
Thad McIlroy
Wilmington, MA: Agfa Division, Bayer Corp., 1999

Printing for an Audience of One: Variable Color Output and the Future of Marketing
Thad McIlroy
Wilmington, MA: Agfa Division, Bayer Corp., 1998

Using Color Management Systems for Push Button Color: Which Systems Perform Best and Why
Bruce Fraser, Rudolph Burger and Thad McIlroy
San Francisco: The Color Resource and Smart Color, 1993

Inside Photo CD: Market Opportunities in a Leading Edge Technology
Thad McIlroy and David Pease (Editors)
San Francisco: The Color Resource, 1993

The Color Desktop Publishing Product Annual
Thad McIlroy, Maury Zeff, and David Pease (Editors)
San Francisco: The Color Resource, 1992, 1993

The Color Resource Complete Color Glossary
Miles Southworth, Thad McIlroy and Donna Southworth
Livonia, NY: The Color Resource, 1992

Desktop Publishing: Trade Shop Experiences
Thad McIlroy
Edina: International Prepress Association, 1992

Desktop Publishing in Black & White and Color
Thad McIlroy and Gord Graham
San Francisco: The Color Resource, 1992.
(Revised edition of Desktop Publishing: A Primer for Printers)

Using a Desktop-to-Prepress System: Creating Output with Linotype-Hell ScriptMaster and Aldus Software
Thad McIlroy
Seattle: Aldus Corp., 1991

Desktop Publishing: A Primer for Printers
Thad McIlroy and Gord Graham
San Francisco: Arcadia House, 1988. 4th ed. 1991

The Quick Printer and Desktop Publishing
Thad McIlroy and Sam Stewart
Toronto: Arcadia House, 1987

Personal Letters of a Public Man: The Family Letters of John G. Diefenbaker
Edited by Thad McIlroy
Toronto and New York, Doubleday and Company, 1985

The Winter Book
By Thad McIlroy
Toronto, Saunders of Toronto, 1985

A Rose is a Rose: A Tribute to Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Edited by Thad McIlroy
Toronto and New York, Doubleday and Company, 1984

Diefenbaker: Remembering the Chief
Edited by Thad McIlroy
Toronto and New York, Doubleday and Company, 1984

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