Apple Music’s $450 espresso desk e book celebrates its prime 100 albums

Now you can purchase a bodily model of the 100 Finest Albums record that Apple Music launched this yr — in case you have some severe money to burn, that’s. Apple Music: 100 Finest Albums, a 208-page espresso desk e book produced by luxurious print firm Assouline, is obtainable to preorder as we speak for $450, with an estimated transport date of November twenty fifth. Transport 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 e book. The design of the e book itself can also be very luxurious, that includes a “custom-designed translucent acrylic slipcase etched with the Apple Music emblem” 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 least this one has phrases in it.

The foreword within the e book is offered by Apple Music’s Inventive Director, Zane Lowe. The content material itself is in any other case pulled straight from the textual content entries of the digital model of Apple Music’s 100 Finest Albums record. 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.