Re: Barbour and out-of-print books

One reason that books don't stay in print very long in the USA is
that the federal government taxes unsold inventories. While this may be
good for some consumers (January sales, etc.), it's a disaster for
book publishers and consumers of slow turnover specialty goods.
James Buckley was going to try to get a bill through Congress to exempt
book publishers, but nothing happened, AKAIK.

Another legal stupidity (a tautology or pleonasm, I know) is the law
that requires academic journals that have page charges (most of the
non-profit, primary peer-reviewed journals) label papers as
advertisements.

--John