A good friend heard a radio interview today with the author of The Last Days of Publishing, a new novel in which “[a]n ex-editor laments the death of the book.” To my friend, the book sounded like a perfect fit for my father, who spent his working life in book manufacturing — his customers were publishers. My grandfather was a publisher, eventually starting his own small firm to publish textbooks. I work for a publisher, and I publish (?!) this small website. So, sounds like a novel of direct personal interest. I’m buying it for my father, and I’ll borrow it from there.