Hi There & Welcome to my Book Blog. My Name is Dylan Nirvana, Musician/Artist/Bookguy. My "day job" is as a buyer for College Bookstores, supplying Used Books to Students.
As you may know, Reselling unwanted Textbooks sent to you by publishers Saves Students Money because they become Used Books in College Bookstores. What may be new to some people, and a bit counterintuitive, is that the "Free Copy" labels on the Promotional Copies are put there by the Publishers themselves. Weird? All the "Do not resell" exhortations (along with detailed explanations about how immoral it is to resell a book - ultimately into the Used Book section of the Bookstore) are there to try to entice professors to faithfully keep all their gazillions of Editions piling up on their shelves, thus depriving cheapskate Students the undeserved opportunity of buying a Used Copy.
Not only does that strike, well almost anybody, as being outright self-serving; I mean, of course it would be better for PUBLISHERS if there where less and less Used Books in Bookstores, but just not so good for STUDENTS.
There is another level of irony here: the Federal Government REQUIRES publishers to print on or with Promotional Text that they are "Free and Not for Sale" to prevent them for using them as leverage to get a lucrative book adoption. Apparently back in the day, they used to CHARGE for them!
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