[bgalbrecht]

Originally Posted by fjtorres

Sadly, this kind of move is no surprise:
http://www.mhpbooks.com/penguin-rand...on-warehouses/

And, equally sad, there is plenty more like that coming.

I'm sure some of this is because merger of two companies always causes some duplication of resources that can be downsized without affecting overall performance (sucks to be downsized though). I also wonder if some of this is motivated by the tax consequences of publishers maintaining book inventories, and that they might be using this merger as an excuse to shrink the inventories.