Reinvent Your Unsold Inventory

Many publishers choose this path as opposed to a discount bin because as a remainder, the publisher can only get a price based on what the market will bear. Repackaging the work as a softcover increases the value of unsold inventory, Dunn says.

The Penguin Putnam imprint of Penguin Group (USA), in New York, is one example of a publisher that has re-bound hardcovers as paperbacks.