The Year’s Worst Publishing Ideas

Robin K. Blum, from over at In My Book sent over This Fun One on the book industry blank zone. In this blank zone, publicists and editors sit at their desks and stare off into space and gradually bestir themselves to write jacket copy or arrive at publishing or editorial decisions that make sense at the time — many things make sense in the blank zone.

They share eight moments when the bizarre and/or the depressingly inane struck the publishing world in 2002, including The Year\’s Worst Book Title, The Year\’s Least Enchanting Idea For A Cookbook, and The Absolutely Worst Publishing Decision Of The Recent Past