This just in -- an answer on the deep discounts

I finally talked to someone at Penguin who explained that the books being offered at a deep discount were from a mixed pallet of hurt books (i.e., books damaged in the wharehouse or at the store). So there shouldn't be a large supply of them. I also asked him about the unfairness of the deep discount clause (where a single extra penny off the wholesale price can gain the publisher 28 cents from the author). He said I was the first person who ever mentioned this, which worries me, because i...