Melcher Media
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Melcher Media is a book packager and publisher in New York City, New York, founded in 1994 by Charles Melcher. The company’s focuses include magazine-, movie-, and TV-related books; environmental titles; pop-up books; and DuraBooks.
The company has produced more than 100 titles, including 15 New York Times best sellers, such as An Inconvenient Truth
(Rodale), Domino: The Book of Decorating (Simon & Schuster), Eminem: The Way I Am
(Dutton), The Lucky Shopping Manual (Gotham), The Lucky Guide to Mastering Any Style (Gotham), 100 Years of Harley-Davidson (Bulfinch), and Sex and the City: Kiss and Tell (Pocket).
Melcher Media is known for highly visual, innovative, and physically distinctive books, such as a pink faux-alligator binding of Sex and the City: Kiss and Tell and a green gel-filled cover for Not Just Cartoons, Nicktoons. The company also leads the market with adult pop-up books, such as the best-selling Pop-Up Book of Phobias and Pop-Up Book of Celebrity Meltdowns.
(North Point) and Aqua Erotica: 18 Stories for a Steamy Bath (Three Rivers). Cradle to Cradle Design uses DuraBook technology as an example of an "upcyclable"
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The company has produced more than 100 titles, including 15 New York Times best sellers, such as An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It is a 2006 book by Al Gore released in conjunction with the film An Inconvenient Truth. It is published by Rodale Press in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, in the United States.Based on Gore's lecture tour on the topic...
(Rodale), Domino: The Book of Decorating (Simon & Schuster), Eminem: The Way I Am
The Way I Am (autobiography)
The Way I Am is an autobiography by American rapper Eminem, published on October 21, 2008. It is a collection of Eminem's personal stories, reflections, photographs, original artwork, and lyric sheets...
(Dutton), The Lucky Shopping Manual (Gotham), The Lucky Guide to Mastering Any Style (Gotham), 100 Years of Harley-Davidson (Bulfinch), and Sex and the City: Kiss and Tell (Pocket).
Melcher Media is known for highly visual, innovative, and physically distinctive books, such as a pink faux-alligator binding of Sex and the City: Kiss and Tell and a green gel-filled cover for Not Just Cartoons, Nicktoons. The company also leads the market with adult pop-up books, such as the best-selling Pop-Up Book of Phobias and Pop-Up Book of Celebrity Meltdowns.
DuraBooks
In 2004, Melcher Media received U.S. Patent 6,773,034 for a waterproof book-binding technology, known as DuraBooks. Using synthetic paper, DuraBooks are durable yet also recyclable. The most prominent DuraBook titles include Michael Braungart and William McDonough’s Cradle to CradleCradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things is a 2002 non-fiction book by German chemist Michael Braungart and U.S. architect William McDonough. It is a manifesto detailing how to achieve their Cradle to Cradle Design model. It calls for a radical change in industry: a switch from a...
(North Point) and Aqua Erotica: 18 Stories for a Steamy Bath (Three Rivers). Cradle to Cradle Design uses DuraBook technology as an example of an "upcyclable"
Upcycling
Upcycling is the process of converting waste materials or useless products into new materials or products of better quality or a higher environmental value....
product.
Awards
- 2008: New York Book Show, First Place, Cookbook, Deceptively Delicious
- 2008: New York Book Show, Second Place, Photography, Illumination
- 2008: New York Book Show, Second Place, General Books, The Sopranos
- 2008: New York Book Show, Third Place, Gift Book, Shakespeare’s Genealogies
- 2006: AIGA Fifty Books/Fifty Covers, Avenue Q
- 2005: AIGA Fifty Books/Fifty Covers, Wicked
- 2005: American Photo, 10 Best Photography Books of the Year, Individuals