How long, O Lord?

A new book about Barack Obama is being published in a new way:

Kuttner's book, by the way, is a pioneering exercise in cutting-edge publishing. The publisher, Chelsea Green, plans to have two thousand copies ready for distribution at the Democratic National Convention. That will mean a lapsed time of about one week between final edit and finished book. (I've written blog posts that took longer to make their way online.) The book won't be in the stores till September 15, but you can get it sooner, thanks to a deal Chelsea Green has made a with BookSurge, Amazon’s new print-on-demand subsidiary. You order it, they print it and bind it, and it's in your hands forty-eight hours later.

Music publishers still take most of a year to get a piece out to musicians. When are they going to get with the modern world?

h/t Matthew Yglesias.