Have you purchased a weirdly low-quality paperback book lately? This may be why.

I work as the bookstore manager for a bookstore in the Hudson Valley and one of the things that means is that I handle not only the ordering of most of our books, but the unboxing of them as well. I get to put hands (or at least eyes) on basically every book that comes […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

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