Thad McIlroy is a digital publishing analyst and author, and principal of The Future of Publishing, based in San Francisco. He is a contributing editor to Publishers Weekly, covering digital innovation, artificial intelligence and publishing startups. His latest report, Book Publishing Startups in the U.S.: Industry Insights, Analysis, and Investment Opportunities, has recently been published.
McIlroy has authored a dozen books and over 500 articles on digital publishing. He served for five years as Program Director for Seybold Seminars, the publishing industry’s premier technology conference.
He is a founding partner in Publishing Technology Partners, a consultancy focused on the broad range of strategic technology issues in publishing.
An expert on publication metadata and online book marketing, he teaches the Metadata for Books course at Pace University in New York, in their Masters of Publishing Program. He is co-author of the industry-standard The Metadata Handbook, 2nd Ed (co-authored with Renee Register).
