I thought this was an interesting tale:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/4841251.html

It seems surprising that he couldn't have found these books a home in some used bookstore or another, especially the well known ones.

It seems like an odd kind of extortion plan for booklovers, which doesn't exactly meet with my approval.

I have a ton of books but I would never deal with them in this way. It seems like a sickening violation somehow.

What do you folks think?

D

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The article is no longer available. I hope it isn't about burning books -- I would find that quite distressing. Can you give us a quick summary?

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The owner of a bookstore sent out a press release that he had 20,000 books he could not sell that he would start burning if someone didn't buy them.

He burned a group of them to get publicity and then started selling the remainder with the remark that only you can save the books from being burned.

It seemed pretty heartless to me, like blackmail, and I thought it was a strange and interesting story.

As I remember a few titles were mentioned and they were good - some novels from well known authors and the like, so it's not like he was burning back issues of some useless publication nobody would want to read.

It seemed surprising to me he could not have liquidated them at another used bookstore if he didn't have the ability to sell them in his own store. Since I believe he was selling them for $ 0.99 each I'm surprised he didn't have better luck finding takers.

Personally, I don't think that kind of owner belongs in the book business.

What are your thoughts?

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