A Mini Review of a "Book of Horrors"...is this thing for real???

[DaveS]

I bought this book at a show i was at last week. I sat down at my table and started to read, and i'm glad i was sitting down because i probably would have a heart attack. Within a few minutes i had seen at least a dozen tourist pieces with huge prices on them. Several of my collector friends saw the book and we were all laughing so hard the tears were falling everywhere. Bottom line is they all paid the $80.00 to get a copy. This guy is supposed to have been collecting for almost forty years. I just wonder where all his "collecting" was done. Must have been done in his dreams.......Dave

[Ann Feuerbach]

Thanks for the heads-up. A sad reminder that just because it is in print does not make it true!

[Lee]

...just because it is in print does not make it true

So very true. The emergence of the PC as a tool for inexpensive book pre-press production in the last decade has been both a boon and a curse. Even I have done a project on the same equipment used to generate much of this website. Many very worthwhile projects have been made possible in the last decade by these new processes (with incredibly more affordable color as well). However, with a much smaller financial commitment and risk being made by the publisher, there is less diligence by publishers in sorting out the chaff.

All in all, though, this new technology has benefitted us greatly, and even in the old days with higher barriers to entry in publishing, horrible trash did occasionally get past peer review and or publisher's cautions.