A good explanatory thread is here: bsky.app/profile/lizt...
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)literally these are books that would be pulped if not bought for 10 cents on the dollar. do rare books sometimes make it into there? yeah, if someone is careless, but that's *upstream* of what happens on sale, not *downstream*. you fundamentally are rescuing something from the fucking pulper.