If Y'all Purchase Fine Art Books On Amazon......

When I refer or recommend fine art books on Making H5N1 Mark or Making H5N1 Mark Reviews I oftentimes link to Amazon - thus it behoves me to likewise mention 10 things Amazon won’t tell you every bit per the 10 things column inward the Smart Money Magazine (of the Wall Street Journal)

Here are the headlines - amongst links to each tab - in addition to it's rattling much a RECOMMENDED READ.  My brief comments in addition to additions to the content of the article are inward italics.

1. "Take our client reviews amongst a grain of salt." I want somebody would explicate to me why I require to demeanour a contention if I review a mass which has been sent to me for costless (see notes at bottom of blog) but Amazon doesn't seem to endure nether the same legal obligation
2. "Kindle Fire? You mightiness endure happier amongst an iPad." Well I think most people teach that Amazon is going to marketplace position its ain product!  However this is an interesting review of the Kindle vs the iPad.
3. "You'll pass a packet on e-books." From what I tin run into the principal expense of some e-books for artists derives from publishers setting prices which bring no justification inward terms of cost incurred!  They're likewise bucking the tendency seen elsewhere inward the e-book marketplace position - in addition to some artists bring noticed this!
4. "Free transportation helps you lot overspend"  Tell me virtually it!
5. "Our listing prices are sometimes misleading." Bottom work - they teach their per centum discounts incorrect on occasion.
6. "We wound mom-and-pop stores." There's no inquiry that online retailing has helped to unopen smaller independent mass stores.  That's why I drib dead on to back upward retail on the high street - I'd similar them to stick to a greater extent than or less (even if Waterstones was responsible for the closure of a lot of independents inward the UK!)  See below for to a greater extent than comments
7. "We're tedious to ameliorate our working conditions."  Not good!
8. "We know to a greater extent than virtually you lot than you lot think." Prepare to endure shocked!
9. "Our recommendations exit shoppers flummoxed." This is why I curate in addition to do my booklists - I discovery Amazon to endure hamfisted when it comes to recommendations
10. "We don’t ever bring the best deals." !!!

This is the impress version for your personal consumption.

Buying fine art books online or from a B&M fine art mass shop

Ten years ago, at that spot were virtually 4,000 independent bookstores inward the U.S., according to the American Booksellers Association. Today, alone virtually 1,900 remain. Amazon has revolutionized mass publishing, Hottovy says, in addition to smaller bookstores were unable to maintain up

It's the same inward the UK.  It's i of the reasons why I developed Art Bookshops - Resources for Artists

This site is developing a listing of practiced fine art bookshops. Starting amongst bookshops inward London, the intention is to position other practiced bookshops inward the United Kingdom of Great Britain in addition to Northern Ireland in addition to other countries.
Naturally it's a operate inward progress in addition to novel links volition endure added from fourth dimension to time. If you lot know of a practiced bookshop in addition to would similar to recommend it delight exit your proposition every bit a comment

I bring a bargain amongst myself.  I'm allowed to purchase fine art books online thus long every bit I likewise retrieve to back upward those fine art mass shops which are accessible to me.  I'm working on the regulation that if nosotros don't purchase from the high street store thus they volition only cease to exist.

In practise what happens is I ever purchase the actually expensive ones or rattling large ones online - but that's every bit much to do amongst non having to lug them dwelling menage on the tube!

The Making H5N1 Mark Book List

What likewise happens - if you lot frequent practiced fine art mass shops is I spot books I never seem to come upward across online.

This calendar week I developed a novel fine art mass site Making H5N1 Mark Book List - it's the listing of books I've bought this yr (or at to the lowest degree it volition endure i time I've finished it - I've nonetheless got lots to add together in!).  I idea it mightiness endure a great means of sharing what I've found.  It's likewise a practiced means of highlighting books which you lot mightiness non come upward across online.

This is a listing of the fine art books I've bought and/or read this year. My aim is to portion what I idea was worthwhile buying in addition to why.

A modest purpose of the expanse devoted to Art Books inward Foyles inward Cahring Cross Road.

Hence this calendar week I left Foyles inward Charing Cross Road amongst the following:

• Joaquin Sorolla (Masterpieces) by Jose Faerna
• Landscape Theory (The Art Seminar) by James Elkins and Rachel DeLue
• Stories of Art by: James Elkins
• Why Art Cannot Be Taught: H5N1 Handbook for Art Students by: James Elkins
• Light for Visual Artists: Understanding & Using Light inward Art & Design by: Richard Yot

From which you lot tin correctly deduce I've precisely discovered James Elkins who is the E.C. Chadbourne Chair inward the Department of Art History, Theory, in addition to Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  He writes a great dense slim volume!

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