As much as I adored this book, I find myself with little to say about it. It was an quick and easy read that was surprisingly humorous. I learned a lot, I have a new respect for humanity's dedication to thievery and an urge to spend more money on books.

I'm a relatively new reader, around the 10 year mark, so I don't know much about the history in the industry before then. I mean, everyone knows the vague generics right? But I loved how this book would bring out names, authors and work, and numbers how well they sold. I looked up multiple new names that used to be quite big names in the past and even considered giving it a spin.

My only real pet peeve with this book, (other than the actual file given to me by Netgalley being full of typesetting errors), was that it was an book extremely focused on publishing in America.

This makes some degree of sense, each region in the world could probably fill their own book dedicated to this subject. But the title doesn't reflect this. At the beginning of the book, there are several small tidbits about how the printing press got started and the impact of it in Europe, and England. But once it hit the US, other than minor mentions of English authors being upset at pirating, we got told very little about what happened in other places in the world.

I'm even further surprised at the fact that globalization and international trade wasn't mentioned at the end of the book. I mean, considering I'm writing this review from a rather small country in Europe and I'm sitting with an ARC copy from Netgalley, I'm pretty sure there is some impact on that on the book industry.

But really, that's a minor complaint I'd easily remove if they'd just smuggle in an sentence in the blurb to give an hint that this book is about 90% America and nothing else. That's not really an reflection of how much I enjoyed this book.

It might even be the very first Netgalley read I get that I'll purchase an edition for myself once it hits the shelves.