Museyon Guides Match Travel with Film, Music and Art
New travel series emulates Japanese guidebooks
By Lynn Andriani -- Publishers Weekly, 7/9/2009 1:49:00 PM
Museyon Guides, a new series of travel books, frame tourist traps and hidden neighborhoods alike through the lens of movies, art and music. West Berlin’s Zoologischer Garten train station is the setting for a scene in The Bourne Supremacy; a sequence in Traffic captures Mexico City’s Zócalo. The travel publishing field may be jam-packed with expert guides, but Museyon is attempting to differentiate itself by emulating Japanese guidebooks, which editor-in-chief Anne Ishii says are “more delicate, more tactile and cover more range” than A
merican guidebooks. The books, $15.95 paperbacks, feature full-color photography throughout, and are written by local experts who also have extensive artistic knowledge.
Museyon’s sales and marketing manager, Laura Robinson, currently handles distribution; the company uses Whitehurst and Clark to handle warehousing and fulfillment. Ishii said if the company grows larger it may sign up with a national distributor.
