Book dealers selling used and antiquarian stock have latched onto mylar
jackets in recent years as a way to preserve the dust jacket - which has $$$$
value - and to advertise (window-dress) the product. In fact, many people on
Ebay refer to their books as being Brodarted to indicate they have the mylar
sleeves protecting the dust jackets. So, one arm of the industry has made a
new adjective of a company name to describe their solution to your problem.
It's time intensive, but it does preserve more value in the book. And these
days, selling discards is becoming easier and more profitable than ever
before. You should tour EBAY for the children's author Tasha Tudor, for
example, to see what people are paying for beat-up ex-library discards.
And some of us are wondering if they really were discards. There seems to be
real incentive to check out (or not) a library Tasha Tudor; pay the $10.00
fine for a "lost book"; and then sell the same item on Ebay for $45 plus
shipping and handling. Another reason to monitor your collections as closely
as you can.
Wm John Hare
New Hampshire Technical Institute
ELEANOR COOK wrote:
> Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 14:47:19 -0400
> From: Javad Maher <Javad.Maher_at_angelo.edu>
> Subject: Dust jackets?
>
> In our library book dust jackets are discarded. As you all know, these
> jackets may contain valuable information about the authors or their works,
> not yet available anywhere else. Since laminating dust jackets is labor
> intensive and costly, is there an economical way to maintain the content?
> Some libraries cut the needed section from the dust jacket and paste it
> inside the cover, opposite the half-title.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Javad Maher
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Received on Wed Sep 27 2000 - 08:48:27 EDT