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On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 17:56:21 +0000 (UTC), in rec.collecting.books,
wrote: For reading copies (ie non-collectibles) I don't see any reason why a book club copy should be less desirable than a mainstream publisher's reprint, although for some reason a lot of booksellers are still prejudiced against them. Probably pretty simple. Booksellers don't make as much money off them. |
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gmenchen wrote:
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 I don't believe so. I worked in a bookstore from 1975 to 1985 - publishers then certainly would not give credit for a clipping from a jacket, and I don't believe things have changed since then. Think of the possibilities for fraud. Mass market paperbacks, however, are a bit different; there the common practice was to return the entire front cover for credit. The remaining book could not be (legally) sold, it was supposed to be destroyed. Ms. Hall and gmenchen are referring to "stripping a book", which is much different from clipping a price. There was the perfectly ethical practice of clipping prices from new hardcovers whose suggested retail price had been increased by the publisher. Many coffeetable/art books would even be released, in the fall, say, with two prices printed on them. [Ex: $45.00 $50.00 after Dec. 31]. When I worked for a chain bookseller in the 70s and 80s, flitting about the store with a sheet of price changes sent from corporate, and a sharp pair of scissors, was a regular event. Nowadays I would suppose that doesn't happen as much, as the stock is likely to be returned quickly. It was infuriating to order a new hardcover from a wholesaler or publisher, get invoiced at that price, and when receiving the book find that you had been shipped stock with the old $22.50 price on the jacket. Now, this could mean that you had been sent a first that the warehouse didn't know it had, but if the buyer wasn't a collector, he was going to want the book at the lower price. So...snip! Then when your customer came in for the book, he sometimes was a collector, and was peeved that the receiver had clipped the price. You couldn't win! Of course, a used and rare dealer wouldn't care about the publisher's SRP, but trade stores would. One other thing about book club editions that I expect most everyone here knows: I've been told that the paper stock used in many of them was often inferior to that in the trade editions. A BCE printed on high-acid paper can sometimes be distinguished by yellowing and chipping that has not yet started to degrade the corresponding trade. The physical dimensions of the two types are also often different, which is not important in a reading copy, but can tip you off if someone is trying to sell brass at gold prices. Kevin |
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