Publishing Perpectives:
Best of '09: Remainders Still a Great Way to Make Money

As 2009 comes to a close we wanted to celebrate by bringing you a week's worth of your favorite articles that we're run on Publishing Perspectives. We'll be back on Monday, January 4, with our next new feature. In the meantime, enjoy the best of '09 and check our news blog for updates and analysis.

Today, we look at the success of the remainder business, despite the down economy.
By Edward Nawotka

KNOXVILLE, TN: "For a long time the remainder market wasn't considered a legitimate part of the book trade," says Larry May. May, who runs The Spring Book Show and the Great American Bargain Book Show, remainder book trade fairs held in Atlanta and Boston respectively, believes that perception has finally turned around.

Remainders Still a Great Way to Make Money

Will Books Get Even Cheaper in 2010?
By Edward Nawotka

Today's lead story discusses how the remainder book market continues to be robust, despite a relatively depressed global economy. It's only reasonable that people would search for bargains when the money is tight. It's also one of the reasons that Amazon, Wal-Mart and others started a brief price war in November, one that saw the price of bestsellers drop below $9 a copy - and these are hot, new, in-demand hardcovers. What's more, with many e-books being priced at $9.99, the argument could be made that customers are becoming accustomed to getting new books at remainder prices."

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