Overview

I'm an electronic publishing analyst and author based in San Francisco. My site, www.thefutureofpublishing.com, is the most thorough exploration of where publishing is headed. I provide consulting services to media companies as well as vendors serving the publishing industry.

I have published over 50 books, written 14, and edited 20+. I consider my key editorial strength is understanding whether or not a book has market potential and to understand how the book might reach its market potential. My specialty is non-fiction: books that intersect new technology and its impact on business and society.

My latest books are Mobile Strategies for Digital Publishing: A Practical Guide to the Evolving Landscape and The Metadata Handbook: A Book Publisher’s Guide to Creating and Distributing Metadata for Print and Ebooks (co-authored with Renée Register).

Services

Languages

Non-Fiction

Thad McIlroy helps small publishers and authors find their audience through strategic planning based on a deep understanding of North American publishing markets. He starts with an understanding of the book(s) and expresses the content both on its own, but, just as importantly, via its metadata. This serves to populate the pipeline and make the book appear robustly and accurately on ecommerce sites around the world.

The Metadata Handbook: A Book Publisher's Guide to Creating and Distributing Metadata for Print and Ebooks

Renée Register, Thad McIlroy

The Metadata Handbook shows how metadata works, introduces industry standards and best practices, and outlines the essential components for successful metadata creation and distribution. The new edition is fully updated and expanded to include the most recent information on metadata standards, practices, and use in the publishing industry. Topics covered include: • Book industry players and th... read more

The Metadata Handbook shows how metadata works, introduces industry standards and best practices, and outlines the essential components for successful metadata creation and distribution. The new edition is fully updated and expanded to include the most recent information on metadata standards, practices, and use in the publishing industry. Topics covered include: • Book industry players and th... read more

The Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing

The first comprehensive guide to all aspects of digital publishing, from rights to eBooks, to accessibility, to content management.

The first comprehensive guide to all aspects of digital publishing, from rights to eBooks, to accessibility, to content management.

Adobe's Designs on Web Analytics: The Omniture Acquisition

Thad McIlroy

This 55-page report, published in 2009, looks well beyond the headlines and the first reactions in the media and the blogosphere. It examines everything from the financial position of each firm to the full rationale for the acquisition. You’ll find all of the background here in one straightforward and comprehensive analysis. The report delves deeply into the tough questions surrounding this ac... read more

This 55-page report, published in 2009, looks well beyond the headlines and the first reactions in the media and the blogosphere. It examines everything from the financial position of each firm to the full rationale for the acquisition. You’ll find all of the background here in one straightforward and comprehensive analysis. The report delves deeply into the tough questions surrounding this ac... read more

Stripping Covers off The Hunger Games: How 7 Billionaires are Deciding the Future of Book Publishing in America

Thad McIlroy

Stripping Covers off The Hunger Games tells the inside and up-to-the-minute story of the seven billionaires whose investment decisions control Barnes & Noble's future, and through Barnes & Noble, the future of bookselling and the future of book publishing in America.You'll move behind the scenes in the lives of billionaires Len Riggio, Jeff Bezos, John Malone "The King of Cable TV", Ron Burkle... read more

Stripping Covers off The Hunger Games tells the inside and up-to-the-minute story of the seven billionaires whose investment decisions control Barnes & Noble's future, and through Barnes & Noble, the future of bookselling and the future of book publishing in America.You'll move behind the scenes in the lives of billionaires Len Riggio, Jeff Bezos, John Malone "The King of Cable TV", Ron Burkle... read more

The Color Resource Complete Color Glossary: From Desktop to Color Electronic Prepress

Miles Southworth, Thad McIlroy, Donna Southworth

Low price due to light shelf wear. If you are not satisfied for any reason we will refund your money with no hassles. Fast shipping! A2

Low price due to light shelf wear. If you are not satisfied for any reason we will refund your money with no hassles. Fast shipping! A2