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Old 03-31-2009, 07:02 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by Moejoe View Post
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.
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).
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