So I’ll just reply here. If I saw that cover in a bookstore, I would definitely pick it up to see what it was about. The banana, of course, brings to mind Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground so my curiosity would have been piqued. Peaked. No, I think piqued it the right word.

I’m glad you are blogging here. I’ve been interested in the publishing industry for a long time, especially the kind of publisher who would think of a name like “Soft Skull.” I mean that in a good way.

Interesting point raised. I think the sometimes insidious presence of the internet in daily life and the huge wealth of knowledge we take for granted has given rise to almost an expectation of transparency in production processes, that because we can watch the sausage go through the factory (blogs, news releases, articles & interviews and so on), it becomes a spectator sport of sorts. And what spectator doesn’t yell at the tv and make themselves known?