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- noun
Stock remaining that has not yet beensold .
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Blech II: Blechsdöttir [1996] - another classic, this one dating from 1996. for this mix strictly kev and pc were asked to dig through the crates of warp label backstock to create a hip hop mix with electronic music.
piece 0 plastic - the revolution will be blogged Jan Zup[ping]er 2010
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Therefore Tower probably doesn't have a large backstock on top sellers but would have a relatively high quantity of low and medium sellers left.
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Action Presidents is a future follow up to Action Philosophers .... if Marvel continues to do these great alt styled comics on their digital comics service, I may yet get one, though I wish they had a service option for "original digitals" and all their backstock at 2 prices.
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I hear Commie has quite a backstock of those and is willing to let them go for $17 Canadian and a handy.
BSNYC Frizzy Fur Quiz! BikeSnobNYC 2010
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The usual is to make them be current in setting and plastic figurines so that kids will like them more, but the problem is that there is usually a bit of a backstock of plastic figurines...
Truth in Advertising 2009
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In recent years they hybridized the sf section shelving in such a way that it didn't have any usable backstock, so the shelves were always too crowded, and then they would go through and do store-initiated returns to clear up space, so they were frequently without books they were supposed to have.
Archive 2009-01-01 The Brillig Blogger 2009
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Odd and the Frost Giants **** is no longer in print, but copies can be found Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com, as well as in many bookshops' backstock, and is well worth a look.
Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman Adam Whitehead 2009
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In recent years they hybridized the sf section shelving in such a way that it didn't have any usable backstock, so the shelves were always too crowded, and then they would go through and do store-initiated returns to clear up space, so they were frequently without books they were supposed to have.
2 down... The Brillig Blogger 2009
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Let's assume that older books are cheaper to keep in print than newer ones (replenishing backstock requires much smaller and therefore cheaper print runs than publishing a new book from scratch) and that just because Tor can keep pumping out new copies of The Shadow Rising regularly, that doesn't mean they can publish a new book of the same size (which would require a much vaster print run).
Greasing the Wheel of Time for all it's worth Adam Whitehead 2009
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Let's assume that older books are cheaper to keep in print than newer ones (replenishing backstock requires much smaller and therefore cheaper print runs than publishing a new book from scratch) and that just because Tor can keep pumping out new copies of The Shadow Rising regularly, that doesn't mean they can publish a new book of the same size (which would require a much vaster print run).
Archive 2009-03-01 Adam Whitehead 2009
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