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Old 04-12-2009, 10:51 AM   #25
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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.
Yes I believe not having the cover on means that the book was "stripped" for the retailer to get credit. They do that with magazines, just take the covers off and send those in for credit and trash the rest of the magazine.


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