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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
If the upshot of this is individual Borders stores being responsible for local disposal of unsold books, I'm not sure it's positive. Such a system would make it likely that a significant amount of books would be disposed of in ways that could be detrimental to the environment (not all waste disposal systems are alike).
On the other hand, if it encourages Borders to be more frugal in orders, resulting in less waste, that would be a good thing.
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Borders (and other bookstores) have been disposing of paperbacks in the trash for a very long time, they just send the covers back to the publisher. If I'm reading this correctly, that means Borders will hang on to books until they are sold (not sending them back to the publisher). I only see this as a positive thing.