Post #92478 by bigbrotiki on Sat, May 22, 2004 2:07 PM

I used my TV movie production time here in Cologne for Tiki work and went to the TASCHEN haus on my day off, to work on the Tiki Icon (The pocket bible version of the Book of Tiki). It was a lot of fun to arrange the images and text anew. I will not be adding new images (they are not paying much), but blowing up a lot of the small ones to be rediscovered, and it'll be a nice inexpensive gift, or a travel companion for the Tiki needy who don't want to shlep the big brick of the BOT around (hmmm...maybe the Icons should be required reading material in motel room nightstands..!?)

Anyway, I hope to finish the layout work in July in time to have this "Tiki Reader's Digest" ready in the fall. AND Benedikt Taschen gave the green light to do a "Tiki Diary" ringbound date book for 2005. It'll have full page illustrations and little icons on the calendar pages.

I also got the numbers on BOTs printed and sold:
1st printing (Hardcover): 24.000
2nd printing (Hardcover): 5000
3rd printing (Flexicover) 13.500

Copies sold worldwide so far:
40.000

That's not bad, eh? The second printing is thus (to me) the rarest, because it's still hard cover, yet the main typos are fixed, like the Bladerunner quote ("revelled" and not "revealed") and the Stacey-Judd quote date (1939 not 1999) in the "Tikis" chapter.

Another way to tell what printing you have is going to page 34 and page 154, where in the 1st printing they forgot to take out the "Linie Rausschaben" (scratch out line) instruction over the illustrations. That was fixed in Printing 2 and 3. Yet even in the 3rd printing they still haven't fixed the 10 on the Tikis chapter title, it is chapter 11 !?
All in all, I believe I could not have found a better publisher than TASCHEN. http://www.taschen.com