Reply #69: Here's the reality of book publishing: [View All]

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Hundreds of millions of books are printed each year. MILLIONS of books are destroyed each year. They don't sell. They get the cover torn off to return for publisher's credit. Then they are put in dumpsters. Then most likely end up in landfills.

I draw a distinction between someone buying books and privately burning them and someone or a group publicly burning books, saying they should not be published, boycotting bookstores, threatening libraries, etc. I've seen none of that in this case.

Are all books sacred? Must we keep every copy of Microsoft Word 1.0 Users Guide?