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Steve Jordan · 27th February 2008, 03:58 AM

Bookstores do that... with books that are not bought. Those books are returned to the publisher (with their covers torn off, to prevent resale). The publisher then disposes of them... they are either landfilled or incinerated at the dump.

A great deal of the money you spend on a printed book goes towards covering the costs of printing, transporting, and disposing of the books that do not get sold. Of course, it does not pay for the damage done to the environment to produce all that paper, print the books, and burn them afterward. Our kids will be paying for that.

27th February 2008, 03:58 AM	#3 (permalink)
Steve Jordan from the Right Brane Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Maryland Posts: 390	Re: Read an E-book Week is right around the corner... March 2nd-8th, 2008. Bookstores do that... with books that are not bought. Those books are returned to the publisher (with their covers torn off, to prevent resale). The publisher then disposes of them... they are either landfilled or incinerated at the dump. A great deal of the money you spend on a printed book goes towards covering the costs of printing, transporting, and disposing of the books that do not get sold. Of course, it does not pay for the damage done to the environment to produce all that paper, print the books, and burn them afterward. Our kids will be paying for that.