remainders

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Remainders of the Day
Chris Dreher has a long piece in the Sunday Washington
Post Book 
Review section that explains to readers how books˜now,
nearly all 
books˜get turned into remainders. Daedalus co-owner
Helaine Harris 
confirms, "There's been a real explosion in remainders
in the past couple 
years."

As he gets to towards the end, the boom in remainders
has become a 
significant component in the long-term erosion of the
business for selling 
new books. As Brad Jonas, co-founder of the Chicago
International 
Remainder and Overstock Book Exposition, puts it, "As
the problems of 
the new-book world become more acute, the bargain
world puts pressure 
on the process."

I‚d rather put it this way: Dumping remainders is a
cheap fix for this 
quarter‚s mistakes, at the expense of the long-term
health of the overall 
business. And rather than ease the pain of unsold
returns, remaindering 
practically everything on your list, only magnifies
the impact of those 
returns exponentially˜particularly as a growing
business in "used" 
books keeps the inventory pipeline flowing freely with
cheap 
remaindered copies.
Post column

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from: 
Publishers Lunch
Monday, August 11

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