Post #568298 by bigbrotiki on Fri, Dec 10, 2010 9:49 AM

On 2010-12-06 17:23, abstractiki wrote:
Hey Bigbro! could you please tell us what the history behind "Tiki Style" is? Was is Taschens Idea? yours? What is the difference from the BOT other than it is smaller and in paper back?
There are 6 new for sale on amazon right now for $24.00 and 16 used from $7.20. I know its not as good as the big hard cover BOT but the content seams to be the same. A used one of these would seam to be a great deal for those on a tight budget.

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On 2010-12-06 17:45, bigbrotiki wrote:
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.