Now you can purchase a bodily model of the 100 Greatest Albums listing that Apple Music launched this 12 months — if in case you have some critical money to burn, that’s. Apple Music: 100 Greatest Albums, a 208-page espresso desk guide produced by luxurious print firm Assouline, is offered to preorder at present for $450, with an estimated delivery date of November twenty fifth. Delivery itself is fortunately free.
One clarification for the excessive price ticket is that availability is extraordinarily restricted — only one,500 copies are up for grabs, every numbered on the rear and contained in the guide. The design of the guide itself can be very luxurious, that includes a “custom-designed translucent acrylic slipcase etched with the Apple Music brand” that protects the white linen hardcover, and gold gilding on the web page edges and backbone lettering. Then once more, Apple has launched equally costly books earlier than — at the very least this one has phrases in it.
The foreword within the guide is supplied by Apple Music’s Inventive Director, Zane Lowe. The content material itself is in any other case pulled immediately from the textual content entries of the digital model of Apple Music’s 100 Greatest Albums listing. If something, readers are literally lacking lots of the unique content material, as movies (for apparent causes) and extra imagery aren’t included, so that is largely focused as a collector’s merchandise.