remaindered book

They buy remaindered books at auction and sell them to retailers.

Remaindered books that still fail to sell may then be pulped.

This reduces the publishers stock of Remaindered books.

It may be a nasty moth that kills trees and excretes remaindered books.

Hardcovers are usually disposed of as remaindered books rather than stripped books.

The school hall is filled with merchandise: bad afghans, ill-conceived table lamps, remaindered books.

In 1941 he and his wife, Blanche, started Dover as a mail order business for remaindered books.

While it also sells new titles, Daedalus Books' specialty is the remaindered book.

Bentley finally resorted to selling copyrights and large numbers of remaindered books to pay his debts.

Used and remaindered books compete with new books for consumer attention and retail shelf space.

Copies of remaindered books may be marked by the publisher, distributor or bookseller, to prevent them from being returned.

The catalogues offer variously remaindered books, new best sellers, unusual imported titles and other special categories.

• and the growth of the supply of new, used, and remaindered books relative to consumer demand.

Mr. Nader told me that he bought remaindered books from publishers to give away at rallies, part of an initiative to improve reading.

Then I bought remaindered books and lived in constant worry that I would run out of reading material before the next payday.

The bandstand's placement behind the Book Bazaar added a dimension to browsing through the better-than-average selection of current and remaindered books.

Mass market paperbacks ("pocket" paperback books sold through a third-party distributor) usually become stripped books rather than remaindered books.

In the 1920's, he opened another store on Eighth Street, the first in New York to specialize in selling remaindered books.

In addition, there are rules for remaindered books, damaged books, books intended for re-export, special orders and leased books.

The stands sell mostly remaindered books and cheap reprints, but a few also sell first-run hardbacks and expensive art books.

Remaindered books are printed books that are no longer selling well and whose remaining unsold copies are liquidated by the publisher at greatly reduced prices.

Found, ridicuously cheap, in a remaindered book shop just in time to make interestesting background reading to Peter Susskind's Perfume (see other column).

The present Crown Books chain buys remaindered books and overstock in bulk from publishers at large discounts and passes the discounts to customers.

The Glamour: Chris Priest's own dramatization of his famously remaindered book is The Monday Play on Radio 4 tonight (1945).

Even the initial stock of remaindered books is determined by headquarters, and stores are required to keep popular books in stock until they receive notice that they can return them.