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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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Books with no cover are illegal to resell in the US, and the reason is this: bookstores, when they "return" paperbacks, strip the covers off. They send the covers to the publisher and the rest goes in the trash.
Phenomshel got it.
I think you'd be able to tell if it fell off or was ripped off though. When I worked for B&N you were allowed to take the stripped books (I looooooved that, I got to read a ton of books that I would never have read, worked for the publishers too because then I'd buy more books by that author). I still have a few on my shelves that I'm trying to figure out what to do with (can't donate them and I feel bad chucking them).