Mini ZINE : Marginal books outside of Amazon.co.jp

PDF, Distribution Performance / 5.0 MB

Mini ZINE : Marginal books outside of Amazon.co.jp

PDF, Distribution Performance / 5.0 MB

In this project, they consider Amazon as a huge gallery, so they exhibit and sell their products on Amazon. However, as the store uses Amazon.co.jp, there are some books that have been barred from selling by distribution Issues. This ZINE features 'Marginal books ' outside of Amazon.co.jp. And by selling this, they will throw barred 'Marginal books ' into the distribution network again.

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The contents are consisted of photos and texts, texts are in Japanese.

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Yohaku Bookstore' : Project about Marginal book

Marginal Bookstore on the Internet

‘Yohaku Bookstore’ evaluate printed books with reader's fabrication,that is, written notes, lines, yellowing, missing pages, and stains of books. Such books would normally be considered to have low worth, however, they paradoxically perceiving these books as things of personal value, and distributing them as “Marginal books”. Using Amazon, one of the giant distributors today, together with the blog service Tumblr, “Marginal books” are being collected, assessed, and sold. *Yohaku means 'margin' in Japanese.


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