What is the difference between a Used book and a Bargain book?
Used books are the ones people bring us in exchange for store credit, or are the books we buy at thrift stores and garage sales for 25 cents. Most likely they have already been read, even if it doesn’t always look like it. Bargain Books (also called Remainders) are books that publishers are overstocked on. They sell them for cheap to remainder dealers, who in turn sell them to us. These are books that have never been read, and the only difference you may see between them and their regular-priced counterparts is a “remainder mark” designed to keep people from returning bargain books to bookstores like Barnes & Noble for a full-price refund. A “remainder mark” is a dot or line marked on the page edges, usually with a black marker. It may be small and subtly placed on the bottom of the book; others are huge and across the top. We have no control over how and where (and if) the marks appear.
