On average, books made in the UK are physically inferior; they discolor, warp and fall apart more easily than American books. Why? “England should be the very last country making bad books. In terms of its capabilities, the British print industry may be the most technologically advanced in the world, having assimilated all the tricks of the computer age by the 1980s, a decade before any of its American counterparts did. If the problem is not a technological one, what is it?”