Thad McIlroy

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 artificial intelligence, digital innovation and publishing startups. His latest book, The AI Revolution in Book Publishing: A Concise Guide to Navigating Artificial Intelligence for Writers and Publishers, has recently been published.

McIlroy has authored a dozen other books and over five hundred articles on publishing technology. He is a founding partner in Publishing Technology Partners, a consultancy focused on the broad range of strategic issues in publishing.

An expert on publication metadata and online book marketing, he has taught the Metadata for Books course at Pace University in New York, in their Masters of Publishing Program. In 2024 he joined the advisory board of Johns Hopkins University Press and became a visiting scholar at the Publishing Master of Professional Studies program at The George Washington University.

He is co-author of the industry-standard The Metadata Handbook, 2nd Ed (co-authored with Renee Register).

Thad McIlroy