Mills and Boon bin all their unsold books every month

black-saturn

My boyfriend works as a rep for Mills and Boon (amongst other things) and he says that each Mills and Boon book has a date on the spine and once the book has been on the shelf for over that time the book is binned. It's not even recycled. He says 100's of Mills and Boon books get binned every month and none of them are recycled and most of them are printed again with new dates on. What a waste of paper!!

linzibean

I can easily believe this!! And it must be a lot of books they chuck - most book shops I've worked for have refused to stock them, and my OH says that when they get any delivered to the Oxfam books he works for, they go straight to recycling as they are never bought! Sigh. Imagine all the trees that would be saved if they stopped printing the rot in the first place :rolleyes:

reehsetin

retailers are guilty of this with other books too, as soon as a book is discontinued, its binned, at least give it to a school or something (not the mills and boon obviously) rather than binning them
profit before common sense unfortunatly

linzibean

Our local bookshop used to give its overstocks to some charoty shops, but since another chain took over (not sure if I'm allowed to name???) they no longer do it as it's not company policy :rolleyes: support your local independant bookseller, we're just better

morg_monster

that explains why in most of the charity shops around here the mills and boons are all in a box with a label on saying "20p each or 10 for £1"...

bobble_hat

I do remember reading somewhere that pulp-fiction such as Mills & Boons are reused as base layers for new roads. :rotfl:

Found it!


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/3330245.stm