This just struck me as odd.  IDW is releasing Rocketeer Adventures Volume 1 hardcover on December 7th, and the direct market version will ship with a dust jacket. Here’s the relevant quote: All direct market copies of this book will have a dust jacket, exclusive to the...

This one has been brewing for a long time but over the holidays my ire was raised considerably as I tried to organize my library.  Why, pray tell, does Marvel believe they need to have variant dust jackets for hardcover books? Let’s take a step back and see where this debacle began. ...

Why are publishers still producing dust jackets?  The technology has been around for a good century or so to print whatever you want right on the book cover.  In fact the dust jacket was meant as a protection for the book binding of the 19th century and was discarded immediately.  It...