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American Book Company is the largest wholesale distributor of remainder, promotional, and bargain-priced books with over 12,000 titles available.
Remainder Books are books that a publisher has an excess inventory of and sells off to retailers or discount distributors like American Book Company. Each Remainder Book is marked on the page edge to prevent it from being returned to the publisher or retailer for full MSRP.
Remaindered books or remainders are printed books that are no longer selling well, and whose remaining unsold copies are liquidated by the publisher at greatly reduced prices.
What is a Remainder Book? When a book is unsold at a retailer for a certain amount of time, the retailer is allowed to send the book back to the distributor for credit. These unsold returns to the distributor are then marked as remainder and sold in bulk at a steep discount to secondary market sellers like Gem City Boo
This list of book wholesalers and remainder distributors is constantly changing so you want to check back often for new listings. Book wholesalers can supply you with multiple copies of front list or back listed titles at discounts of 40% - 45% off the publisher's suggested retail price.
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Remaindered books are popular for internet sellers and independent bookstores. They provide a large inventory of almost perfect books at a bargain price. No BookScouter vendors currently purchase remaindered books, but eBay is a good place to sell them.
I explain remainder marks in the publishing industry -- what remainder marks are, why books are remaindered, and more.
A book or textbook described as a “remainder book” or “remainder” means that the book is no longer selling well and is being sold at a greatly discounted book price, to free the distributer of their remaining inventory.
So, ultimately, what do remainder marks mean to you? In a nutshell, it means deeper discounts, a better sell-through rate, and higher retail margins for your store.