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After all PA is a POD printer. We print it, you bought it and paid for it up front.
Very likley that the author must pay for the book they themselves talked the store into stocking.
Dear author, You, not PA talked the store into stocking a book that can't be re-stocked again due to quality issues. Therefore as PA is a POD publisher, as you know, it is your responsibility to pay for the returned book.© No PA you may not use my weasel worded response.
Thank you,
Nasty reply to YOUR problem.
Ken, I must disagree with you on this point.
Article 17 of the PA contract clearly states that the author will avail himself to promote his book. If that author promotes his book to a bookstore, and convinces a bookstore to place his book for sale on their shelves, he has complied with Article 17.
Because PA did not have a return policy in the past, bookstores were not willing to order PA books to place on their shelves, because they would be out the money for shelving those books if they never sold.
However, PA now has a return policy. Albeit, a horrid one. Nonetheless, PA does have a return policy. This return policy is the inducement for a bookstore to order and shelve PA books, because they will no longer be out monies if the books don't sell and they are returned.
Perhaps other POD's have clauses in their contracts that cover what happens when an author promotes/convinces a bookstore to shelve their book. PA does not. Therefore, PA is responsible for the cost of the unsold and returned books.
Pa was forced to provide their authors with some form of return policy in order to make themselves appear more legitimate. They cannot cover their losses for returns by charging their authors, not without verbiage being added to their current contract.
(This is my personal opinion from reading PA’s contract. I am not an attorney, nor am I purporting to give any legal advice or legal interpretation of PA’s contract.)