360 Degree Book Idea
This is an idea for a new book form. Think of the old Rolodex, and get someone to redesign the general concept as a work of beauty – a new kind of coffee-table book. Minimalist and cleverly functional. Maybe handles of either side of the spindle and a button to turn the pages.
Because of the style, these books lean towards a minimalistic structure – no cover page, no table of contents, no page numbers.
My idea for a first iteration is called More is Less – Everything Has a Limit, with a theme of highlighting where “progress” isn’t necessarily good. For example:
Nuclear power / Chernobyl
Capitalism / the 1%
Plastic / polluted oceans, dead creatures
Every pair of open pages have a photo or art on the left and a short quotable sentence, and/or statistics on the right. It should be punctuated with irony.
The price of the book is 4x cost to produce, and promoted as such. Contributors get a 50% share of the profits, and charities get the other 50%.