If you know the Greek island of Paros in the Cyclades, you'll be familiar with Parikia's Panagia Ekatontapyliani, or "Church of 100 Doors." Said to date back to the 4th Century AD, it's a stately, elegiac Byzantine landmark in the Aegean. It does not, in fact, have a hundred doors, and no sure explanation for that abiding moniker, either.
When you look at the evolving industry of publishing today, it can seem to have parallel characteristics: the books business is a kind of temple based on our regard for literature. It has an honored past; some obscure traditions; and-on the face of it-at least a hundred ways in, entry points of debate and discussion, presumed thresholds to potentially lucrative business everywhere you look.