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Old March 2nd 05, 11:09 PM
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Betty Hall wrote:

Well, Actually I thought the reason for clipping a book's dustjacket was
when the book has not been selling and the book seller wants to send
a part of the book back to the publisher to get some sort of percentage
rebate.......the publisher gives a percentage rebate for the book not
selling.

And then the book seller still has the clipped book to sell at his
discretion..
if he can.

Maybe I'm wrong but that;'s what I always thought.

Betty

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hi,

i see a lot of "unclipped price" phrase in 2nd hand book descriptions
on ebay & abebooks. what does it mean?


Perhaps, long ago...but I've never heard of it being done that way. When
returning books to publishers for refunds you send the torn-off front
cover in the case of paperbacks, and the entire book ( dust jacket
included ) in the case of hardbacks.

Price clipping is usually done for one of three reasons:

(1) To hide the cost of a book when it is given as a gift ( probably the
most common and innocuous reason ).

(2) To hide the original price of a book when it is being resold as a
rarity ( i.e. for a higher price than that at which it originally sold
). You will occasionally come across used paperbacks with the prices
inked out...this is the collectible PB version of this phenomena.

(3) To hide the dust cover's 'edition' origins...to make a book club
dust jacket look like that found on a more desirable edition, or to make
a later ( higher original priced ) dust jacket look like it belongs on
an earlier ( lower original priced ), more desirable, edition.



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