Post #567862 by bigbrotiki on Mon, Dec 6, 2010 5:45 PM

Oh, I had that posted here somewhere, but before I find it:

Taschen did that with many of their titles, it was called their ICONS series: They make cheaper, pocket-sized versions of their bigger books, for a fraction of the price (it retailed for 9.95 or so 7.95 or so) to serve a different market, the folks that don't wanna spent 30.- bucks on a subject but don't mind picking one up for under 10.- in passing, for kicks and giggles. SORT of a reprint. But I did not get as many pages, so instead of shortening each chapter, I completely edited out the HUNTERS AND COLLECTORS and the SURFIN' TIKI chapters, that's why I am calling it the Reader's Digest version or pocket bible version of the BOT.

I was not quit comfortable with the different title, and when they even wanted to give it a different cover, I fought against that, it would have been too misleading for the buyer who would have thought it to be an entirely new book, especially in the age of internet ordering, where the size difference of the book is not immediately noticeable.

I did however enjoy giving the book a new lay out, with assigning images to different contexts than in the BOT, and blowing up images that had been too small in the BOT, so I am quite happy with the result, for what it is. But it ain't the original.