This doesn't bother me one bit. Most bike companies do it. Companies like Bike Friday, Worksman, or Detroit Bikes are the exception, not the norm.

Their journals are comparable to Moleskine, and manufactured in the USA, Ann Arbor MI, by a company with which I also do print work. So I scored a schwag sample of the Shinola notebook. Very nice product. Does not bother me one bit that it is not made in Detroit, and in fact they hype up the manufacturer, Edwards Brothers Malloy, and do not hide the fact that manufacturing is in Ann Arbor.