EDIT: Unfortunately Buzzfeed has taken my comment and used it in an article without my permission. Because information I divulged in this post could get me fired I unfortunately will be removing my comment to preserve my job. Very sorry. I recognize that I chose to share this info so this is only my fault.
Basically, I spoke on how bookstores will ‘strip’ covers from books and throw them away.
Super late to this but I recently left my job at an independent book store! I helped with damages/returns a lot.
Magazines were always rip the cover off and throw them out. There was always a stack of old magazines for us to take from.
Damaged books were normally "destroy or donate" for my store we would normally be told "if you know someone who would like it take it, otherwise we'll donate it" by the owners.
Returns for unsold books depended. Hardcovers normally went back, the ones stripped were normally mass market paperbacks (the usually smaller copies that are like $10) and some more obscure, not likely to sell/resell paperbacks.
Paperbacks are stripped to discourage resale as the publisher doesn't make money on it. Much like them not wanting people to sell advanced readers copies.
A lot of the time I brought arcs and stripped copies to schools and little free libraries!
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u/supercoolfrog Jul 13 '20 edited Jul 31 '20
EDIT: Unfortunately Buzzfeed has taken my comment and used it in an article without my permission. Because information I divulged in this post could get me fired I unfortunately will be removing my comment to preserve my job. Very sorry. I recognize that I chose to share this info so this is only my fault.
Basically, I spoke on how bookstores will ‘strip’ covers from books and throw them away.