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Old 01-31-2010, 05:14 PM   #210
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I didn't know that specifically, no.

Considering publishers ask retailers to throw out books rather than return them, I'm not surprised. Seeing dumpsters full of pocketbooks without their covers in the past, behind the malls I worked in, that really disgusted me. The government might as well pay farmers to throw away excess food...oh wait.

What a ludicrous system.
Imagine being the one stripping them and throwing them away. I never got that practice. I understood why they didn't donate them, and I guess shipping them back and storing them was costlier, but man, that's a lot of waste.
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