"The Art of the Book"


	"The Art of the Book"
cakebelly
6-26-2009 2:55 AM
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cakebelly says:
Russian Sci-fi / Fantasy cover art; no info on titles or artists. Apparently Russians still love to read and have a voracious appetite for detective & sci-fi novels. "Thousands published every week"
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2a2c8666-6b05-45c7-a46e-4f89651c0c58/16274CEE-66AF-4034-88AD-D23DED2BD71A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://englishrussia.com/?p=3025" href="http://englishrussia.com/?p=3025" style="font-size: 11px;">englishrussia.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://englishrussia.com/?p=3025"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/englishrussia.com/img/15A9BDDB-97C2-48CF-8693-0BA4536A9C46" alt="Russian books illustrator" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://englishrussia.com/?p=3025"><SPAN>If you ever had been in Russia you probably noticed that there are a lot of book sales in Russia. Before, in <SPAN class="IL_LINK_STYLE">Soviet</SPAN> times, they had called Russians “The most reading nation of the world” for their passion to read. </SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://englishrussia.com/?p=3025"><SPAN>The quality of reading material has changed also a lot. If before it was mainly classic literature or some modern novels carefully picked by <SPAN class="IL_SPAN"><INPUT type="hidden" name="IL_MARKER" />Soviet</SPAN> censorship for not having something unwanted in them then today people more often read low-level detective stories or fantasy books which are being created at a great speed of thousands new titles every week.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://englishrussia.com/?p=3025"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/englishrussia.com/img/AD722D51-68D5-470D-94BE-E7A85737ACB0" alt="Russian books illustrator 1" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://englishrussia.com/?p=3025"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/englishrussia.com/img/78027D22-B024-406A-9A7A-A796178ED370" alt="Russian books illustrator 2" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://englishrussia.com/?p=3025"><P>So all of those go in great competition for readers minds and attention. They sell hundreds of books in some totally weird places as just on the street or in the subway or just on a sidewalk. The brighter the cover the more chances that a passing by soul would spot some new shocking story of Cyber OMOH fighter stuck in 2020 with his new BHD-9000 gun and a mission to save the princess.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://englishrussia.com/?p=3025"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/englishrussia.com/img/EB7A9370-C86C-4C6C-8F3F-9937FBD0A662" alt="Russian books illustrator 7" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://englishrussia.com/?p=3025"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/englishrussia.com/img/A6A18F96-B15D-4B3F-8669-8DBCB11047CC" alt="Russian books illustrator 8" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://englishrussia.com/?p=3025"> Leo Hao.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://englishrussia.com/?p=3025"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/englishrussia.com/img/72C660AF-F3B2-4C10-B016-65175BECC016" alt="Russian books illustrator 9" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://englishrussia.com/?p=3025"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/englishrussia.com/img/679517CA-B8F9-4DD1-B16B-8C1B23A46053" alt="Russian books illustrator 10" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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