Ending returnability will save Canada's book publishing industry over $330 million per year

Millions of books being wasted! Thrown into dumpsters. Here's why... Learn about a broken business model. It is a secret publishers don't want the public to know about.
The book industry is in dire straits -- more publishers and retailers are going bankrupt every week. Massive lay-offs are happening. The pressures seem to be coming from every direction: the recession causing lower sales in stores, digital books threatening to erode sales of printed books, the cost of printing rising... Yet the best hope for regaining profitability is to FIX AN UNDERLYING BUSINESS MODEL that is hopelessly inefficient and scandalously wasteful of money and natural resources.
A simple change could be implemented within six months, and would save the Canadian book industry over $330 MILLION each year.
Please go to www.bookindustrybailout.ca to learn more. Thanks for watching and doing what you can to build awareness and bring pressure to bear on publishers and retailers.

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• book publishing
• wasted books
• Borders
• Walden
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• broken business model
• returns
• returnability
• consignment sales
• Canada Council
• BPIDP
• Canadian Heritage
• Bruce Batchelor

[TheMerlinartist]

she flies on wings of wheat !!!

[shumfp]

I support this- all parties can benefit from this change in business model -- including readers and independent book publishers