Oh I see, they mistaken thought the title was “No, MORE Plastic!”
They’re saying Boo-urns!
How did he pick out the publisher… Just whoever was offering the best deal?
The way publishing industry has been for a very long time, authors (especially first time ones) don’t get to pick whoever pays the best deal. Just whoever pays the first.
Edit: Also, theoretically, publishers should accommodate author wishes once a publication contract has been made. Actually not unheard of that a publisher would do something cool for their up and coming star. But this? Sloppiness on the publisher’s part, plain and simple.
I don’t understand why some books are wrapped in plastic at all. Like is it to protect the cover? Prevent people from reading it at the book store? Some weird contract with a vendor that requires a percentage of books be wrapped? A quirk of the shop that printed the book?
It makes zero sense.
Warehouses are dirty.
Probably so they can be stored carelessly in dirty warehouses that may or may not control for humidity
Used to work in a warehouse that did exactly this, can confirm drove a forklift loading pallets of books on trucks and “humidity control” meant closing the bay doors that didn’t have trailers backed in so the snow wouldn’t blow inside.
That’s a typo, it should read: “No. More plastic!”
I shouldn’t have this ALA logo here either
It was a typo, he meant: No, more plastic!
Lionel Hutz, Esq
Free consolation? No, money down!
Better get rid of this bar association sticker too.
Plot twist: it was corn starch based.
that’s still bad though. it requires petroleum based processes to grow the corn and then convert the starch into a plastic like substance when the book could have just not been shrink wrapped. i get that you’re joking, and i’m being pedantic, but not enough people realize bioplastics are not the solution, they’re a gap measure, like EVs, and i’m usingeyour comment as a soapbox
I guess they could have been wrapped in bulk, but I wouldn’t say you can ship books around without any protection.
It could have been an e book though
My e-reader is e-waste.
Edit: it wasn’t by my choice. My kindle just died for no reason.
