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Re:Stores weigh paying you not to bring back unwanted items by vorpalhex on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @06:49PM (#32007876)
I remember going to several questionable bookshops that sold coverless books quite cheaply (frequently $1/$2 for a lb of books). As a kid it was an excellent way to stock up on books.
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Re:Stores weigh paying you not to bring back unwanted items by NoPiece on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @08:26PM (#32008595)
When I was a kid I had a nice cache of coverless books I'd retrieved from the trash bin behind the local Crown Books.
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Re:Stores weigh paying you not to bring back unwanted items by grensley on Thursday July 07, 2022 @12:12AM (#32009815)
Selling books by the pound sounds sacrilegious to me.

I guess I'm not such a voracious reader that I'm buying in bulk like that.

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Re:Stores weigh paying you not to bring back unwanted items by mgiampapa on Thursday July 07, 2022 @05:15AM (#32011630)
You can also buy books by the linear foot. Apparently when WFH got going big time it caused a huge spike in demand as people wanted filled bookshelves as a backdrop for video calls.
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Re:Stores weigh paying you not to bring back unwanted items by MinorTom on Saturday July 09, 2022 @09:21AM (#32034820)
Wow. I remember reading about buying books by the foot in a communist satire book, I didn't expect reality to catch on that quickly.
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Re:Stores weigh paying you not to bring back unwanted items by RajT88 on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @07:27PM (#32008163)
I imagine on the torrent sites there's a demand for book covers you can print yourself.

Having just done a quick check, I'm surprised there's not!

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Re:Stores weigh paying you not to bring back unwanted items by culturestate on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @08:18PM (#32008540)
I suspect that if you’re the type of person who might think to torrent a book cover, you’d probably just torrent the whole book.
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Re:Stores weigh paying you not to bring back unwanted items by im3w1l on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @11:35PM (#32009647)
The implication is that a bookseller would print them so they can sell their "unsold" books.
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Re:Stores weigh paying you not to bring back unwanted items by wiml on Thursday July 07, 2022 @01:45AM (#32010342)
That's a fair amount of effort, expense (printing), and labor (assembly) just to try to sell a book that you've already determined isn't selling very well!
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Re:Stores weigh paying you not to bring back unwanted items by quickthrower2 on Thursday July 07, 2022 @02:18AM (#32010538)
It might also be fraud where selling a coverless books is just breach of contract? IANAL but would be interested in finding out
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Re:Stores weigh paying you not to bring back unwanted items by actuallyalys on Thursday July 07, 2022 @02:52AM (#32010703)
I suppose you could do it for books that were selling well, but they might get suspicious if your bookstore was the only one.
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Re:Stores weigh paying you not to bring back unwanted items by bombcar on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @08:44PM (#32008708)
You can usually download high res covers from Amazon if you want.
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Re:Stores weigh paying you not to bring back unwanted items by lazyasciiart on Thursday July 07, 2022 @05:19PM (#32019592)
These booksellers could just make copies of the ones they have.
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Re:Stores weigh paying you not to bring back unwanted items by lttlrck on Thursday July 07, 2022 @12:40AM (#32009973)
Just like the album cover scrapers of yore (and probably still...)
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