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- verb Present participle of
remainder .
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Examples
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Here is what Shatzkin has to say about remaindering -- and if you're new to the business, 'remaindering' is the practice of selling off the last few hundred copies of a print run at a far cheaper price than the bulk of the run, just to get the last few copies out of the warehouse and make room for something else. ...
Thoughtful, knowledgeable, and smart Michael Allen 2005
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As for remaindering ebooks, fear not, for technology will find a way....
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In any case, remaindering devalues our product, our profits and our retailers 'profits because why buy a new book when you can get one for 75% off in the bargain section, our author's reputations, and our confidence in understanding our readers.
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For reasons that remain unknown, the British publishers tried to kill the book at birth, releasing it with a minimum of fanfare and remaindering it as soon as humanly possible.
Wertzone Classics: The Separation by Christopher Priest Adam Whitehead 2008
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I heard this poem the other day and could not help but laugh, an author celebrating the remaindering to either return, discount, or toss out of a particular enemy's book.
A Poem to Share: The Book of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered By Clive James 2008
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The pay for most of us is low, the work intense, promotion never-ending (I won't even get into remaindering), yet in the history books, there will be a notation under your name -- published writer.
That Magic Moment... 2006
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Something that will get initial orders and damn the heavy returns/remaindering/pulping?
Ursula K. Le Guin Ed Gorman 2008
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For reasons that remain unknown, the British publishers tried to kill the book at birth, releasing it with a minimum of fanfare and remaindering it as soon as humanly possible.
Archive 2008-03-01 Adam Whitehead 2008
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In which the chastisement of remaindering has been meted out
A Poem to Share: The Book of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered By Clive James 2008
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In the kind of bookshop where remaindering occurs.
A Poem to Share: The Book of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered By Clive James 2008
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