How to steal books

Set off explosives in the bookstore to create a deafening noise. Exit during the explosion. Cover the book with thinly sliced ​​cold cuts and exit. Shout "thief!" and point at someone. Exit with the book when everyone is looking." \n \nAmerican artist David Horvitz details 80 ideas for stealing books. Originally published in 2013, this reissue of How to Steal Books is available in French, English, Spanish and 17 other languages ​​(we don't have them all in stores!) A complete guide to stealing books with the price printed on the cover, clearly visible, makes the visitor to a bookstore aware of the unconscious decisions, preempted by others, that we make every day. \n \nThe poetic, funny, and paradoxical texts also highlight certain structural elements of the mechanics of the bookstore and our relationship to the exchange of goods. They insert a friction into the conditioned behavior we display when we move through commercial spaces. All advertisements encourage us to buy things, but it is rare that we encounter a message encouraging us to steal - especially not a message with the authority that print still carries.