Who hasn't read The Book of Tiki? (Not a poll) - General Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Fri, Nov 10, 2006 1:35 PM No prob, Rob, thank you for your support of the "true" Tiki word (though let's not go there again, please :) ) I agree that it is a shame that Taschen let the last printing of the BOT run out (I think they are just too busy), I argued with my publisher about it, because it still is a regular seller. His point was that a period of non-availability will increase demand, to which my usual pragmatic point of view is that in today's fragmented pop culture, there is such an overflow of stuff out there, that if a consumer does not find what they want, they get the next best thing, and forget the first, and a sale is lost. As I said here before, I certainly expect it to be re-printed with the release of my new book in February, because for many THAT one will be their first "serious" Tiki book, and they might want to get the BOT if they like what they see. But then (not to complain!) I had to put out fires at Taschen with the new book, like its delayed release (lost that one), or the idea to put the bilingual translations after every chapter now (! No kidding, Randy), which I successfully fought. And to reply to the above joking in my usual big brother earnest :wink:, I do not judge anyone who has NOT read the text, because I conceived the book in reverse, as a cameraman telling a story through visuals: FIRST see the images, THEN if interest is high enough read the captions, and THEN, if one still wants to know more, maybe read the text. I am a visual junkie, that's what got me into Tiki in the first place.

No prob, Rob, thank you for your support of the "true" Tiki word (though let's not go there again, please :) )

I agree that it is a shame that Taschen let the last printing of the BOT run out (I think they are just too busy), I argued with my publisher about it, because it still is a regular seller. His point was that a period of non-availability will increase demand, to which my usual pragmatic point of view is that in today's fragmented pop culture, there is such an overflow of stuff out there, that if a consumer does not find what they want, they get the next best thing, and forget the first, and a sale is lost.
As I said here before, I certainly expect it to be re-printed with the release of my new book in February, because for many THAT one will be their first "serious" Tiki book, and they might want to get the BOT if they like what they see.

But then (not to complain!) I had to put out fires at Taschen with the new book, like its delayed release (lost that one), or the idea to put the bilingual translations after every chapter now (! No kidding, Randy), which I successfully fought.

And to reply to the above joking in my usual big brother earnest :wink:, I do not judge anyone who has NOT read the text, because I conceived the book in reverse, as a cameraman telling a story through visuals:

FIRST see the images, THEN if interest is high enough read the captions, and THEN, if one still wants to know more, maybe read the text. I am a visual junkie, that's what got me into Tiki in the first place.

Post #265775 by bigbrotiki on Fri, Nov 10, 2006 1:35 PM