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Originally Posted by Moejoe
Is that true? You can't buy or sell books with their covers off in the US? Is it limited to just book retailers, or second-hand bookshops too? Crikey, I've bought loads of books from second-hand stores with no covers, just the pages and the glue binding them together.
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Technically, if the cover's missing off a UK book it shouldn't be sold, either - although I think what is meant by that is if just the cover, or just the details page (the one with the copyright and publisher info on) has been deliberately removed - which is what bookshops do to books they can't sell, either because they've arrived damaged or for other reasons. They then send the removed bits back to the publisher as proof, and are
supposed to destroy the book. Certainly a few years ago the general practise in at least one chain was for it only to be destroyed if no-one had taken it home after about a month. And I wouldn't be surprised if some of those made it into charity shops...