The covers are removed to save postage, actually--rather than a store sending back the whole book, they just send the covers. I bet the dust jacket *is* what gets sent for hardcovers, Barb.
Buffy: How bored were you last year? Giles: I watched 'Passions' with Spike. Let us never speak of it.
'Beneath You'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Amy - Aug 11, 2008 6:41:33 am PDT #6928 of 28385
Because books.
sj - Aug 11, 2008 6:43:31 am PDT #6929 of 28385
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Mass market paperbacks and magazines are the only remainders where only the front cover gets sent back. The rest they send back the whole book. At least that is how it was done at the bookstore I worked at.
Toddson - Aug 11, 2008 6:46:46 am PDT #6930 of 28385
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Paperbacks have the covers stripped off; covers are sent back to the publisher for credit and the books are pulped (for recycling). Hardcovers are marked - either a magic marker stripe across the pages (at the edge) or a mark on the cover - and the entire thing sent back.
amych - Aug 11, 2008 6:51:29 am PDT #6931 of 28385
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
No, hardcovers and trade paperbacks are sent back as is, since they may still be sold to another store. The marker stripe you've sometimes seen is done by the publishers only after the book has been remaindered.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 11, 2008 7:06:53 am PDT #6932 of 28385
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Anybody else wondering if Kerfuffle Bunny is going to be talking about OSC?
I say, send the covers/dust jackets to Card, and include a note saying you made confetti for a gay wedding out of the rest.
Kathy A - Aug 11, 2008 7:09:22 am PDT #6933 of 28385
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
the books are pulped (for recycling)
Not always. When I worked at Waldenbooks, we'd just box them up and toss them in the dumpster.
amych - Aug 11, 2008 7:11:18 am PDT #6934 of 28385
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Ideally, of course, strips are sent home to new forever-homes with loving booksellers. Publishers like to crack down and say you can't do that, and then stores say "no, booksellers, you can't have that book we're throwing away!"
And then things start to slide again.
Miracleman - Aug 11, 2008 7:15:59 am PDT #6935 of 28385
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Anybody else wondering if Kerfuffle Bunny is going to be talking about OSC?
Probably Friday.
Sophia Brooks - Aug 11, 2008 7:18:36 am PDT #6936 of 28385
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Is that where the 70% off books come from?
Jessica - Aug 11, 2008 7:23:30 am PDT #6937 of 28385
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I may wind up selling my OSC's on eBay, but I don't think I could bring myself to physically damage one (to send him the covers). I once accidentally water-damaged my LotR set by putting a leaky humidifier on top of the bookshelf and I felt like I'd run over a puppy for about a week afterwards. It's not the books' fault their author is a raging psychotic bigot, you know?
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