What We Do

• Remainders
  
  Books remaining in a publisher's warehouse when the sales velocity has slowed to a trickle. Publishers sell those books off at a reduced price to clear their warehouses for recently published books. The fact that a book is remaindered does not make it a publishing "failure" - it merely reflects the reality that no publisher sells 100% of the books it prints.
  
  
  
  
• Hurts
  
  These used to be books with damaged dust covers, slightly dented covers, bent pages etc. Nowadays, hurts are more likely to be unprocessed returns from bookshops accumulated in publishers' warehouses where it is more cost-effective for the publisher to sell by the pallet-load rather than put the books back into their stock.
  
  
  
  
• Reprints
  
  A reprint is a reincarnation of a book from the far or recent past produced especially for the bargain market. It can be a literal recreation of a book, or can include the text of a previously published book with a new design and format, or it might be a book that never existed before such as an omnibus of an author's work.
  
  
  
  
• Promotional Books
  
  These are new books created for the bargain market, and generally are highly illustrated. They are normally published in areas such as cooking, gardening, transportation and animals.
  
  
  
  
• Imports
  
  These are books from around the world that retain the imprint of the original foreign publisher. We attend four international book fairs each year with the purpose of obtaining such books and books in the other categories above.