[HPforGrownups] Re: Lily died before James? Scans of Relevant Pages.

[Robert A. Rosenberg]

No: HPFGUIDX 103570

At 01:10 +0000 on 06/30/2004, snow15145




  wrote about [HPforGrownups] Re: Lily died before James? Scans of Releva:

>Steve, shouldn't the U.S. editions if they were revised at some point
>have something stating about the revision on the copyright page?
>
>This may not be relevant but my 2002 paperback copy has a paragraph
>on the copyright page that I thought was unusual, it says:
>
>"If you purchased this book without a cover, you should be aware that
>this book is stolen property. It was reported as "unsold and
>destroyed" to the publisher, and neither the author nor the publisher
>has received any payment for this "stripped book."
>
>I thought it was an interesting statement.

You have to know the way books are distributed to understand the 
significance and reason for that warning on the copyright page. When 
a Book Story (or distributor) orders a book they have the right to 
"return" it for a refund of the price they paid for it if all the 
copies they ordered did not sell. For paperbacks (as opposed to 
Hardbacks), the actual book is not returned for the credit but only 
the book cover. The "stripped" book (ie: The coverless book) is 
supposed to be destroyed but sometimes gets sold to a "remainder" 
distributor who then sells it to the public. Since the book was 
supposedly destroyed the publisher has refunded the purchase price to 
the Book Store (or the Store's Distributor) and the author does not 
got a royalty on that copy of the book.