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1 Issue, November/December 2024

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LETTERS Feedback from readers I was happy to see an article on the complexity of book distribution in the September/October 2024 issue that does a good job explaining why it’s so difficult for small presses to make appreciable amounts of money on book sales (“The Nuts and Bolts of Distribution: How Your Book Ends Up in Stores” by Michael Bourne). One aspect of distribution that isn’t explored in the article, however, is a problem unique to the book industry: returns. When a retailer doesn’t sell all the copies of a book it has ordered, it is able to return them free of charge. What happens in this case is that the publisher (understandably) is charged by its distributor for inspecting and restocking the books. What other industry works this way?…
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