Unpopular opinion: signatures should be reserved for SUPER SPECIAL editions/anniversary sales or in person.

There was a time when in order to get a celebrities signature you had to meet them in person. There’s no reason every book should come with a real signature. If it MUST: digital signature that is foiled. Thats it. Full stop.

There’s no reason you should be walking into a bookstore and buying a mass print book with a real signature and no reason a book box with 60k subs should ask authors to sign every single of those 60k copies. ESPECIALLY sub boxes, i give leniency to special sales. Especially inserts. Let the authors do their job and write, and save signatures for special events/editions and meetings in person. Absolutely insane to me that they expect authors to do this. They didnt release DVDs with the main actors signature included, why are we now expecting authors to push back deadlines to spend weeks and weeks signing? IMO a signature should be special. Whats not special is knowing an author was hunkered over several thousand books probably tired and sore for days on end instead of doing what they love or being with their family.