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Originally Posted by Pinecone
If the paper books were that expensive, the publisher would want them back. They don't. It is not worth them getting them back.
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The books are being returned
because they didn't sell.
What would the publisher do with them, pile them up in stacks?
The cost to produce something is not the same as the value it ends up having in the marketplace. (See HP TouchPad for an electronics example)
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There is chart in a thread here that shows the cost of actually printing, storing, and shipping pbooks is a VERY small amount of the cost of the book.
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I think the word you are looking for is 'claims', not 'shows'.