Mayhaps I am a tad naive

Okay, so the high-placed Penguin editor told me the deep discount copies of Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie available from Barnes and Noble were from a small quantity of "hurt" books that had been purchased by some middle man and then resold. Fair enough.

However, if you go to the listing for the book (which seems to be available in large enough quantities that the current sales rank is 575), and click on the further information about bargain books, you'll see that: "Bargain books are not used...