You can now buy a physical version of the 100 Best Albums list that Apple Music released this year — if you have some serious cash to burn, that is. Apple Music: 100 Best Albums, a 208-page coffee table book produced by luxury print company Assouline, is available to preorder today for $450, with an estimated shipping date of November 25th. Shipping itself is thankfully free.
One explanation for the high price tag is that availability is extremely limited — only 1,500 copies are up for grabs, each numbered on the rear and inside the book. The design of the book itself is also very luxurious, featuring a “custom-designed translucent acrylic slipcase etched with the Apple Music logo” that protects the white linen hardcover, and gold gilding on the page edges and spine lettering. Then again, Apple has released similarly expensive books before — at least this one has words in it.
The foreword in the book is provided by Apple Music’s Creative Director, Zane Lowe. The content itself is otherwise pulled directly from the text entries of the digital version of Apple Music’s 100 Best Albums list. If anything, readers are actually missing a lot of the original content, as videos (for obvious reasons) and additional imagery aren’t included, so this is largely targeted as a collector’s item.
