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I remember going to several questionable bookshops that sold coverless books quite cheaply (frequently $1/$2 for a lb of books). As a kid it was an excellent wa
by vorpalhex 4y ago
I remember going to several questionable bookshops that sold coverless books quite cheaply (frequently $1/$2 for a lb of books). As a kid it was an excellent way to stock up on books.
- RajT88 4y agoI imagine on the torrent sites there's a demand for book covers you can print yourself. Having just done a quick check, I'm surprised there's not!
- culturestate 4y agoI suspect that if you’re the type of person who might think to torrent a book cover, you’d probably just torrent the whole book.
- im3w1l 4y agoThe implication is that a bookseller would print them so they can sell their "unsold" books.
- wiml 4y agoThat's a fair amount of effort, expense (printing), and labor (assembly) just to try to sell a book that you've already determined isn't selling very well!
- quickthrower2 4y agoIt might also be fraud where selling a coverless books is just breach of contract? IANAL but would be interested in finding out
- actuallyalys 4y agoI suppose you could do it for books that were selling well, but they might get suspicious if your bookstore was the only one.
- bombcar 4y agoYou can usually download high res covers from Amazon if you want.
- lttlrck 4y agoJust like the album cover scrapers of yore (and probably still...)
- lazyasciiart 4y agoThese booksellers could just make copies of the ones they have.
- NoPiece 4y agoWhen I was a kid I had a nice cache of coverless books I'd retrieved from the trash bin behind the local Crown Books.
- grensley 4y agoSelling books by the pound sounds sacrilegious to me. I guess I'm not such a voracious reader that I'm buying in bulk like that.
- mgiampapa 4y agoYou can also buy books by the linear foot. Apparently when WFH got going big time it caused a huge spike in demand as people wanted filled bookshelves as a backdrop for video calls.
- MinorTom 4y agoWow. I remember reading about buying books by the foot in a communist satire book, I didn't expect reality to catch on that quickly.