Post #41687 by bigbrotiki on Fri, Jul 4, 2003 9:03 AM

In case you had not noticed, the BOT was sold
out for a while, but the new printing is supposed to be available at the end of July. Unfortunately, the nice padded cover will be replaced by a soft cover, but the quality of the pages will remain the same.

I found out about this too late myself to stockpile issues of the hardcover, so sorry for the late notice. While I am not thrilled about this, it is the way of things in the publishing world, and in no way could anybody else have put out such a book for such a price and thus facilitated Tiki's re-entry into pop culture the way I had always envisioned.
Taschen already had a thin profit margin. and with the extreme Euro-to-Dollar rate shift I am sure they have to struggle more to make some.
I got a copy, it looks a little smaller but is exactly the same, and leafing through it actually seems easier. So now your hardcover is a collectors item.