The wet paper has a unpleasant smell. That mix of pulped wood, with its lignin in measured proportions, which are a polymer made up of large molecules, when it gets wet it stinks. What I describe, without having a clue, retains a characteristic smell that smells like a book when dry when it has a cover. Who has not deeply sniffed a book to almost extract the story it tells! a delight
Well, this Sant Jordi, wet books left an aroma that has nothing to do with the perfume of a new one. Bad luck has caused small bookstores with stalls on the street they are not yet clear on how they will pay for what they have bought outright.
The bookstore business is profitable if two precautions are taken: return the book on time Y not wanting to be a library. The first facilitates a reduction in the invoice for what is not sold. The second ensures that the establishment does not spend the small benefits obtained from sales. A matter of careful balance.
But the wet books of Sant Jordi have remained in limbo, for the moment, although the Guilds and Culture have advanced that they will find a solution. Because it was not the specimens, but also the carp that, in many cases, flew.
Publishers usually accept returns with no problem.. For this reason, they are the last to know if a title has worked until the return figures arrive. It is an almost unique methodology in Europe. In other countries the bookseller buys, sells and bears the cost.
In this case, deformed and unusable books are not accepted by distributors or publishers. Defective book. So they have a problem, despite the rapid response of the institutions to the storm.
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Large bookstores with financial muscle face the problem with less risk. But the small ones, the ones from the neighborhoods, who bet on Sant Jordi with orders above the average thinking of selling more, those have it worse.
The question is what should a small establishment do now? Do you return the book at the risk of not being accepted, or do you wait until some imaginative action with discounts knowing that its cost has been higher?