World’s largest book on sale

When I went to the Poptech conference 10 years ago, one of the talks featured one of the world’s largest books, a book of photographs of Bhutan. The book used to fetch $10,000 a copy, but Amazon now sells it for just under $300. Something is fishy though…many of the vendors selling the book are shipping it for only $3.99, which seems unlikely for a book that weighs 133 pounds. (via cory)

Update: Long story short, there were two versions of this book made: the big one and a smaller one that’s only a foot and a half tall. That Amazon link used to go to the big book but it’s the little one now. Make sense? Anyway, here’s a link to the big one if you want to buy it for $5,824.34 with free shipping. (thx everyone)

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• photography

Bhutan’s measurement of Gross National Happiness and

Bhutan’s measurement of Gross National Happiness and how that idea has spread to other countries.

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• happiness

Bhutan, the world’s largest book

Michael Hawley gave the Poptech audience a wonderful tour of Bhutan and the giant book that resulted from his journeys there. A couple of photos of the book at Poptech:

Turning the pages involved a short walk. If you’d like to own this baby, it’s available for only $10,000 on Amazon.

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• books
• conferences
• PopTech