Good point, in the past, when we actually had bookstores. Book distributors would ask for the book covers of unsold paperbacks rather than the whole book when s

Good point, in the past, when we actually had bookstores. Book distributors would ask for the book covers of unsold paperbacks rather than the whole book when shipping it back. Their thinking being that it was cheaper to destroy the book than to get the book back. I suspect that now distributors are happy to get rid of what they can't sell and people are mostly happy to get rid, cheaply, of any books they no longer want.