Sale or return in bookselling: Friend or enemy?

In a recent article in Futurebook, the digital offshoot of Britain’s The Bookseller, Tom Chalmers takes issue with the sale or return policy, calling on booksellers to, “scrap this ludicrous, self-defeating, damaging way of doing business.” Hold on: Jettisoning a pillar of the book trade: the return of unsold books to the publisher free of charge? [...]

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