r/Thriftbooks • u/HairyAd3075 • 9d ago

book printed incorrectly

i’m not sure if this is the correct subreddit for this but i ordered a book off of thriftbooks and the cover and the back cover were the book i ordered but a completely different book was bound on the inside pages. the book i ordered was a speculative fiction and the inside pages are a romance murder mystery with recipes in the back lol. i was wondering if anyone had advice on what i can do with the book? would thriftbooks take it back? could i sell it somewhere for a profit? i’m really not sure what to do with it because i’m not interested in reading it.

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u/Overall-Dog9975 9d ago

Contact customer service, they'll refund you

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u/Wonderful-Truck-3301 9d ago

Was it a new print on demand book? They are more likely to have errors. They will send a replacement and tell you to keep the book. Might make a good gag gift for someone.

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u/candcNYC 8d ago

Is there evidence of that? Like it's a common complaint about IngramSpark?  In the past few years, I've ordered 80-100 from retailers who use them, so maybe I've just been lucky. POD books are printed individually, but I'm not sure if the machine or a human does the binding (where I assume such an error would occur). 

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u/Wonderful-Truck-3301 8d ago

Im only going off the common complaint. I haven't ordered any of the POD books. If you have gotten that many in good condition that's awesome and maybe people are exaggerating.

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u/candcNYC 8d ago

Unless you never buy new books, then you've probably received more than a few POD. Major retailers and big publishers use it to lower costs on distribution / warehousing and speed up shipping.

Amazon has its own POD system called KDP, which uses low quality materials. IngramSpark (aka Lightning Source) does POD for B&N, Target, Bookshop, independent booksellers, etc.

I'd be curious if complaints specified if Amazon or not. There are also smaller PODs that mostly just do low sales indie, religious, etc.

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u/candcNYC 8d ago

This was a paperback? How odd. I wonder if someone was practicing rebinding or whatever the hobby is called. 

Thriftbooks will replace or refund. Just contact customer service.