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Remaindered book - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Remaindered books are books that are no longer selling well, and remaining unsold copies are being liquidated by the publisher at greatly reduced prices. Copies of remaindered books are marked by the publisher, distributor or bookseller, to prevent them from being returned. "Remainder marks" have varied over the years, but today most remainders are marked with a stroke with a felt-tipped marker across the top or bottom of the book's pages, near the spine. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Remaindered_book   (280 words)

Self Publishing: Shelf Life vs Book Returns and Sales The shelf life of the book is obviously important to sales in the sense that the longer the book is viable, the greater the number of years you have to sell it. Books published with the short discount print-on-demand model are only ordered for stock in quantity if they establish a strong sales record, and are almost never remaindered. Book returns are minimal, and then only if the publisher accepts returns, and sales can actually rise on a year to year basis. www.fonerbooks.com /2006/01/shelf-life-vs-book-returns-and-sales.html   (820 words)

Authors and Remaindered Books - Childrens Book Writing Remaindered books is a publishing industry term for books that are surplus to the publisher's needs. Remaindered books do not always signal the success or otherwise of a book. Royalties are not paid on remaindered books, so the author is usually given first option to purchase these books. www.bellaonline.com /articles/art20324.asp   (442 words)

LRABooks - What is a remainder book?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) A remaindered book is one whose publisher has allowed it to go out of print, and is liquidating their remaining unsold copies by selling them at greatly reduced prices. In other cases, books may be remaindered because they are not selling quickly enough to pay for the inventory costs of keeping them in stock and selling only a few copies per year, or because the publisher is going out of business. Mass market paperbacks ("pocket" paperback books sold through a third-party distributor) are often pulped; they are stripped of their front covers (which are returned to the publisher as evidence that the books have been destroyed), and the books are discarded or recycled into paper or cardboard products. www.wholesaleremainders.com /remainderinfo.html   (424 words)

2blowhards.com: Large-Picture Books Sometimes hardcover books are remaindered because the title has gone to trade-paperback and they are priced somewhat in line with the new, cheaper edition. More often, remaindered books are both hardcovers and trade paperbacks that failed to sell the first time they hit the shelves. My tendency is to buy books that use a comparatively large number of medium-to-small illustrations as opposed to books featuring illustrations that are full-page, two-page spreads, or even spreads with a fold-out. www.2blowhards.com /archives/2005/10/largepicture_books.html   (1361 words)

And So It Goes They ship internationally, charging a flat $15 for up to 10 books (plus $1.50 for each additional book), meaning that it only makes sense to order in bulk, as it were. It seems a postal system problem, since Ben (one of my co-workers) had ordered a book by mail from a different US bookseller, and his shipment was similarly delayed. It was the one book out of the fourteen in this most recent batch that I remembered, since I wanted to show it to Ben, and perhaps pass it on to him. blogs.salon.com /0001306/2003/08/31.html   (455 words)

Stocking Bargain Bin - remaindered titles Black Issues Book Review - Find Articles As many a book collector knows, few things can match capping off an afternoon of browsing at the mall finding an armload of volumes--glossy gift editions, last year's bestsellers or obscure-but-inviting titles--marked down to as little as $1 or $2. How books end up as remainders is a function of the marketplace, but a fascinating one. Jonas, who also owns a remainder house of his own, recalls that, as the sell-off or secondary market was growing in the 80s, "we were finding that it was a part of the industry that really needed its own home." CIROBE started with about 100 buyers and 20 to 30 publishers or wholesalers. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0HST/is_3_3/ai_75121884   (827 words)

O'Reilly Radar > The Long Fail of Books Remainders make old books cheap, as the music industry would do for songs, but by the time a book is remaindered the author and publisher have been cut out of the economics. In general book publishing (not computer book publishing) the publication first in hardcover, then in paperback is a way that publishers charge higher prices when titles are new, then lower them for a broader audience. The Make-a-Guide beta, which is free for now and which can be found at http://www.whatbird.com/mag/make-a-guide.aspx lets you build a field guide answering the questions in a set of screens, selecting for example all the birds of a particular state or family. radar.oreilly.com /archives/2005/11/the_long_fail_of_books.html   (3104 words)

Why it pays to read the fine print | Perspectives | CNET News.com When the books arrived, he found that the bottoms of the pages were defaced with a bold fl stripe from a felt marker. She said that a new "bargain books" information page was posted last month in response to consumer complaints. In addition, all remaindered books offered on Amazon pages are now identified as bargain books with a link to the information page. news.com.com /2010-1071-281533.html   (828 words)

Identify book like Lunatic Lovers of Language? | Ask MetaFilter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) In the 1980s I came across a slim book about people with language-related mental disorders, such as a person who had a phobia of English and chose to speak French for the rest of his life. The Sacks book is excellent, but I don't believe the phobia of english example you mentioned is in The Man who.... I noted from google that the book I thought might be it was listed mostly by religious sites. ask.metafilter.com /mefi/17850   (399 words)

A Rose by Any Other Name - 9/20/2004 - Publishers Weekly   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) Michael Powell is owner of Powell's Books in Portland, Ore., which has long shelved new and used books together (and also stocks a large selection of remaindered titles) and has an active Web site (www.powells.com) that works on the same principle. Both sellers and buyers of discounted books and publishers note that the sale of discounted books is actually an integral part of the industry, and ultimately it supports the sale of books overall. Books that are remaindered or returned don't become more valuable. www.publishersweekly.com /article/CA452759.html   (3139 words)

The Millions (A Blog About Books): Sale Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) The remaindered book starts out as a regular old frontlist book, that is, one of the season's new offerings from a publisher. The book is released, and amid bad reviews and underwhelming publicity the book is a dud, an outright disappointment. Now, the book industry is rather odd in that, if a book doesn't sell, the retail establishment can simply return it to the publisher and get most of their money back. www.themillionsblog.com /2004/07/sale-books.html   (1409 words)

Best Buys Bookstores: Buying Bargain, Remainder, Discount Books Bookstore List After the life of a book is over in the catalog of the original publisher, the unsold inventory is often disposed of by selling it to a remainder house at a huge discount. A catalog remainder house in Williamstown, MA 413-738-5518 with about 500 annotated titles available in art, architecture, literature, biography, history, social issues, children's books and photography at discounts up to 75%. The books are nicely presented with a cover shot and a description. www.shoppingagents.net /bookstores-bargain.html   (1090 words)

Vol. I No. 20 TIRED OLD BOOKS Books are part of our culture, in the old days, handed down from friend to friend. Wright's companion books have made an enormous contribution in opening the intellectual and social issues that examine a culture within gay men's society. Both books include essays and interviews, analysis and autobiographical stories about the men who are bears and those who become them and those who seek out their company. www.calamusbooks.com /newsletters/v1_20   (1907 words)

Publisher's Contests, Picture Book Manuscripts, Bible Copyright, Selling Remainders, A Child Writing:The Purple Crayon ... I'm an experienced screenwriter and book editor, so I have a reasonable sense of how to craft a story, but I'm experimenting with a structural device that bends or breaks "the rules." I've been having a friendly debate about this with a few writers I know and the opinions differ widely. Children's books that bend or break the rules DO get published, as that book demonstrates (there are others). If this is a book which you know has been selling from any specific store or types of stores, then you could contact them directly and offer stock to them. www.underdown.org /blog_806.htm   (2021 words)

The Millions (A Blog About Books): 07/01/2004 - 08/01/2004 Quite unexpectedly, I found this book about the Shah and his overthrow by Ayatollah Khomenei to be very relevant to today's conflicts, specifically, the difficulties inherent in replacing a brutal and oppressive regime without falling prey to extremism. I had never heard of this book before I started working at the book store, and it seems to be one of those books that is half-remembered and dimly loved by those who read it decades ago. In the book, Price (who also wrote Clockers) weaves a mystery of sorts about a man who returns to his roots in a hard-edged New Jersey town and is brutally assaulted, but refuses to implicate his attacker. www.themillionsblog.com /2004_07_01_themillions_archive.html   (4593 words)

Amazon.com: The First-Book Market: Where and How to Publish Your First Book and Make It a Success: Books: Jason ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) Feeling that the book's publicists were not doing as much as could be done, McMillan sent out over 4,000 letters to her publisher's sales reps, bookstores, various organizations, women's studies programs, college librarians, and readings series. In The First Book Market, they will find out about grants and awards available exclusively to them as first-time authors, get advice on writing effective query letters, and learn how to increase professional visibility, work with literary agents and speakers bureaus, and promote their books. Rather, this book is just a collection of random, almost irrelevant musings (considering the title's promise of a fact-filled, how-to type manual) and a listing of essay contests. www.amazon.com /First-Book-Market-Where-Publish-Success/dp/0028622480   (1622 words)

Publisher Direct Discount Bookstore Brochure type sites look nice and would be supportive to other efforts to promote an authors book, however they can't be depended upon to generate the amount of traffic needed or would rank well in the search engines enough to generate book sales. As an example, for a fiction book such as "The Garden of Good and Evil" which is based loosely on history and characters in the city of Savanna, Georgia. Articles relating your book to the town and reasons to buy the book to prepare for a visit or tie it in for local residents would be very helpful to increase sales. www.pdbookstore.com /AssociateHelp1.html   (841 words)

BBC NEWS | Business | Readers can book some profits And the recent success of the Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings films have boosted the prices of the books on which they were based, making bibliophiles everywhere wonder if they have a rarity among their collection. He added: "Children's books are always well-worth collecting, and are a popular subject among book buyers. "They are available for only a few pounds in remaindered book shops, yet very few will remain in good condition in years to come after children have had their hands on them. news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/3207183.stm   (1095 words)

'The Book of my Enemy Has Been Remaindered' - Clive James   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) The book of my enemy has been remaindered And I am pleased. In vast quantities it has been remaindered Like a van-load of counterfeit that has been seized And sits in piles in a police warehouse, My enemy's much-prized effort sits in piles In the kind of bookshop where remaindering occurs. Great, square stacks of rejected books and, between them, aisles One passes down reflecting on life's vanities, Pausing to remember all those thoughtful reviews Lavished to no avail upon one's enemy's book -- For behold, here is that book Among these ranks and banks of duds, These ponderous and seeminly irreducible cairns Of complete stiffs. ug.cs.dal.ca /~johnston/poetry/bookofmyenemy.html   (254 words)

Online Book buying FAQ: Frequently asked questions on how to buy books on-line The number of books claimed in bookseller advertising is the count of titles in the bookstore's database, not necessarily those on hand. Before the advent of computers there were used booksellers that used this term to mean that they would use their book trade connections to try to find a copy of a hard-to-find or out-of-print book for you if they did not have it in stock themselves. Even if you pretend you are going to buy a book just to see now the system works, you can always change the quantity on your order to zero at the end or just type in a new URL and go somewhere else. www.shoppingagents.net /bookFAQ.html   (4530 words)

[No title] The downstairs (where the majority of the books are) is not for the claustophobic. One result is that a portion (but only a minority) of the books are not in as good condition as one would like. All the books are in good condition and the prices tend towards the lower side. www.textfiles.com /fun/bookshop.txt   (2572 words)

Book-finder Services on the Internet As is the case with many search engines, each book finder searches a different index and you should therefore try several if the first set of results is inconclusive. Here in the United Kingdom, the term 'remaindered book' means a copy of a book which was published at some time earlier but was never sold at retail, i.e. In American English, the terms 'blow-out book' and 'close-out book' appear to have a similar meaning. www.nationalfinder.com /bfs/index.htm   (352 words)

Untitled John Maurice Watkins, the founder of this bookshop, was a friend and disciple of H P. Blavatsky and was himself personally involved in seeing the first edition of The Secret Doctrine, her great metaphysical classic, through the press. The ideal of founding the bookshop is said to have occurred to Mr Watkins in a conversation with Madame Blavatsky in which she lamented the fact that there was nowhere in London one could buy books on mysticism, occultism and metaphysics. Watkins Books, by the end of the decade of Disco, Watergate, and Trade Union strikes itself started to suffer from the pressures of rapidly soaring rents and rates, not to mention increasing competition, and the two partners found that running the shop was no longer financially viable. www.watkinsbooks.com /history.html   (1859 words)

Book Importation Regulations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) books that were legitimately published in their country of origin (a) the book is marked as a remaindered book, the original (c) the book is imported solely for the purpose of re-export, www.ebookscanada.com /regulations/regulations.html   (2937 words)

The SF Site: Geeks With Books by Rick Klaw She loves books almost as much as I do and, bless her heart, no matter how broke we were, she always managed to find the money to buy me a book. I'm sure it was easier to buy me a book then to listen to me bitch the entire time we were shopping.) I found this book on the bargain book stacks: The Fantasy Hall of Fame compiled by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg. All that was good about the early cyberpunks is in that book: the diversity, the quality, the style. www.sfsite.com /columns/geeks129.htm   (1494 words)

The redesign continues... (kottke.org) If you scroll down the front page of the site, you'll notice that sprinkled in with the regular posts are remaindered links (the 1-line, 1-link posts that have formerly lived in the sidebar), movie "reviews", book "reviews", and excerpts from comments I've made on other sites. When initially seing the remaindered that are sometimes bunched together I thought you were just posting them all at once but they have seperate comments which means they are all individual entries in another blog, like before. In response to "t", the remaindered links are still available on their own page, as Jason notes in the sidebar of his main index. www.kottke.org /03/11/kottke-redesign   (10407 words)

Zope: Web Application Development and Content Management — plone.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) This book tries to cover slightly different ground than "how to start using Zope to develop web sites." If you're looking for a good general introduction to Zope, I'd look at either Beehive's The Book of Zope, or the Zope Book (the online edition at zope.org; the printed version is quite out-of-date). This book is basically a walkthrough of several products for Zope (the CMF, ZPatterns, ZUBB, etc.) I doubt you'll find that you've learned much about how to use Zope or how to develop for it, rather than a thin bit about how to apply these products. The only reason I'd recommend this book is if you're looking to learn about ZPatterns, and chances are, you aren't. plone.org /documentation/books/amazon_tool/0735711100   (507 words)

Blank We stock hundreds of thousands of books in While the Main Bookshop may not be the largest remainder children’s books - a veritable cornucopia of delights for all book www.mainbookshop.com   (191 words)

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