You can do what they did for L. Ron Hubbard's doorstop-ology "Mission Earth", where they'd buy the books in stores, give them back to the publisher, and buy the

You can do what they did for L. Ron Hubbard's doorstop-ology "Mission Earth", where they'd buy the books in stores, give them back to the publisher, and buy them from the stores again. Booksellers were noticing that the books which came from the publisher already had their store's stickers on them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Earth_(novel)#Sales_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Earth_(novel)#Sales_co... Re-selling the books will save you some money.