Longest single-volume book in the world goes on sale
Baku, September 23, AZERTAC
A limited edition single volume of the long-running manga One Piece is being billed as the longest book in existence, according to The Guardian.
At 21,450 pages, it is physically impossible to read, making it less of a book and more of a sculpture.
Priced at €1,900 (£1,640), the book isn’t credited to Eiichiro Oda, the writer and artist behind One Piece, which has been serialised in Japanese magazine Shonen Jump every week since 1997. It is being sold instead as the work of Ilan Manouach, the multidisciplinary artist who has designed the limited edition volume, which is titled ONEPIECE.
Manouach printed out the Japanese digital edition of One Piece and bound it together, treating the comic not as a book but as “sculptural material”, according to the book/ artwork’s French publisher JBE.
Eiichiro Oda may not be getting any royalties from the publication of ONEPIECE, but his comic series have already made him the richest manga creator of all time, with an estimated net worth of around $200m. His original One Piece manga is listed by the Guinness Book of Records as having the most copies published for the same comic book series by a single author, with more than 416m copies printed to date.
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