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Heavy Volumes: Inside Art Book Publishing
Art book publishing rests on three houses — Taschen, Phaidon and Abrams — and an economics of image rights, heavy printing and long backlists.
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The trade beneath literary culture: bookseller margins, wholesale discount structures, print run and paper costs, rights and translation sales, returns, and the earnings of a mid-list title. Sources are named where possible. For booksellers, publishers and readers curious about who profits from a book.
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The Open Folio: Digitized Manuscripts
Digitized manuscripts, from the Met's CC0 images to DigiVatLib and Gallica, have redrawn access to the medieval page — with real limits.
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Paper as Practice: The Artist's Book
The artist's book treats the bound object itself as the artwork — a genre codified by Ed Ruscha in 1963 and collected by Tate and MoMA.