The Trib's piece on the Art Institute's new Taschen shop-within-a-shop quoted a consultant advising museums in matters of retail, "If you're in the middle of a whole bunch of Taschen books, you're in the middle of a visual paradise."
At Rizzoli in the mid-'90s we maintained dedicated Taschen tables, towering with juicy, super-saturated tomes. Smart, bold catalog, it's no surprise they're still selling like hotcakes. And the company's got marketing panache to suit.
Mostly, yes, viva! Bookstores, adapt! Then, sigh, the "publishers with high wholesale prices" who didn't make the cut. Certainly some of their books are wonderful too, like endangered species. Even an ugly little biting beast is so important when it's almost gone.
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