AW.: Re: Barbour and out-of-print books

In einer Nachricht vom 1/14/00 4:50:34 PM (MEZ) Mitteleurop�ische Zeit
schreibt jhchalmers@popmail.ucsd.edu:

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One reason that books don't stay in print very long in the USA is
that the federal government taxes unsold inventories. >>

This was not always the case. Ending the exemption for books from inventory
taxes was one of the first "achievements" of the Reagan administration.
Within the year of that change, the stock of American book distributers was
effectively depleted.