Dave Eggers

Nobody caught it.

I had teachers that made us make them.

First grade, fifth grade, eighth grade.

So I have all these books that we made, wrote and illustrated and bound.

And then got into desktop publishing when the Mac was new and stuff.

So that made me a publisher was the ability, because I didn't know math.

I couldn't do computers in any other way.

But the Mac, it was for people like us that weren't engineers.

And so I fell in love with just the whole process of...

assembling a bunch of stories, laying them out, using desktop publishing.

And then we were publishing pretty basic things for a while.

But then I went and saw, I went to Reykjavik and walked the floor of the printing plant.

It was all these blonde men with blue jumpsuits.

I mean, it was like a Oompa Loompa type of thing.

But I could walk around and I'd see, they printed all the Bibles in Iceland.

And I could see like the gilt edges and foil stamping and a leather cover and

A ribbon marker and all these beautiful add-ons.

And I was like, how much does that cost to do?

Two cents.

How much does that cost?