mrt: "From what I see, great books and bad books get
remaindered just as often and just as quickly. It's as if a
new book had an intrinsically short shelf life... I am sure
the booksellers among us know the answer."
Hardcover books are going through a kind of crisis as of
late. Publishers are encountering more "price resistance"
than they have in the past, meaning that consumers are simply
not up for laying out the tall dollars currently being asked.
As hardcovers make more money than other formats, publishers
aren't ready to do away with them, but tend to give them
shorter and shorter time on the stands to prove whether or
not the public finds them worth buying. If the public doesn't
get behind a hardcover in short order, it gets remaindered,
or worse, returned and pulped.
John
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