Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:00:45 -0500
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Free Books?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Michael Walsh wrote:
> http://www.inhabitat.com/2010/01/18/borders-plans-to-trash-tens-of-thousand=
> s-of-unsold-books/
>
> http://tinyurl.com/yavd3g4

That is standard practice, and has been for decades.  They return the covers and
get paid back by the publisher for the unsold copies.  If they give them away,
they lose the money...though the publishers would love it I presume.

-- Mike B.