Why do American authors so frequently use their middle initial in their names?
Unrelatedly, I’m impressed by the list of cities in which technical publisher O’Reilly is based:
Beijing · Cambridge · Farnham · Köln · Paris · Sebastopol · Taipei · Tokyo
Is there a name for this list of cities? I can’t believe that such a term-happy industry as publishing would let it go untaxonomised, but I’ve never heard it named.
In addition, a world-beating list suggests itself for some unimaginably fantastic and obscure publishing house:
Algiers · Bogotá · Chihuahua · Córdoba · Djibouti · Ephesus · Hammerfest · Hobart · Irkutsk · Jerusalem · Kingston · Kyoto · La Paz · Lerwick · Mecca · Milwaukee · Montevideo · Odessa · Port Moresby · Rangoon · Reykjavik · São Paulo · St Ives · Shangri-La · Sofia · Tripoli · Ur · Warsaw · Zanzibar
Now all I have to do is work out what they would publish.
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