Moral Impilications of buying overstock
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So facebook recommended a website to me that sells manga very cheaply (~4 - 5 a book). I was wondering how they did it when I saw in the description that they are wholesaling overstock. I'm curious if people think that buying overstock is good or bad for the industry as a whole. For those who don't know what overstock is, I'm putting it in a spoiler.
I guess for me the moral gray area comes in that these are ultimately copies that the publisher is losing money on because they didn't sell. So, buying them in a sense hurts the publisher instead of supports them since they still paid for the manufacture and distribution of the copies and aren't getting any money from them.
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In terms of the industry I don't think it has a major impact. Assuming these overstock sellers are acquiring their stock legitimately, then the publishers have likely already factored them into their contracts with bookstores.
