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What does "unclipped price" mean ?
hi,
i see a lot of "unclipped price" phrase in 2nd hand book descriptions on ebay & abebooks. what does it mean? |
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i see a lot of "unclipped price" phrase in 2nd hand book descriptions on ebay & abebooks. what does it mean? It means the price you pay if you haven't been circumcised. Personally I find this practice to be anti-Semitic! |
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Wildwood wrote:
At one time, a book's price was only located on the front inner flap of the jacket. It was extremely common for people buying books for gifts to do like most people do for any gift... remove the price tag. Since at the time the price was usually only located in a front corner of the jacket, they just cut that corner out, and unless the recipient compared prices at a new book store, they never knew the purchase price. Also, since most book club edition jackets don't carry a price, unscrupulous dealers sometimes clip a jacket to hide the fact that there _wasn't_ a price present, in an attempt to pass a BCE as the real thing. -- Alfred |
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Alfred,
Thanks for the reply. From what you say I gather that a Book Club Edition is not the same as a "normal" edition based on collectability? I would like to ask the reason for this. Thanks again for the info. |
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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 wrote in message oups.com... hi, i see a lot of "unclipped price" phrase in 2nd hand book descriptions on ebay & abebooks. what does it mean? |
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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 wrote in message oups.com... 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. -- Swimming in the rivers of light. |
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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 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. |
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In article .com,
() wrote: *From:* *Date:* 28 Feb 2005 19:20:49 -0800 Alfred, Thanks for the reply. From what you say I gather that a Book Club Edition is not the same as a "normal" edition based on collectability? I would like to ask the reason for this. Basically, a book club edition isn't collectible in the way a first edition is simply because it /isn't/ the true first edition, even though it may look very similar to the first. Also, there may have been a lot more copies of the book club edn. printed. 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. |
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