Elfwine opened this issue on Nov 19, 2007 · 47 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Mon, 19 November 2007 at 4:02 PM
You can get $75.00 coffee-table style books here in the US off of the 'Bargain" shelves at places like Barnes & Noble or Borders for $10.00 or less. Although after awhile the accumulation of copious numbers of coffee-table style books in your house can begin to become a storage problem.
The publishers themselves re-sell their own returns at greatly reduced prices. It's the brand-new books -- the ones that typically sell at full price, or perhaps on special with something like 20% off -- that sometimes get "stripped" (the publishing houses term for it). I've yet to ever buy, or to even see for sale, a so-called "stripped book". But the publishers regard the issue as enough of a problem to print a complaint about it in their books.
These days, I'm buying a lot of ebooks. They come without the storage issues.