[PLUG-TALK] help at powells.com: Re: Huge label on used book ordered online

[Denis Heidtmann]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Keith Lofstrom <keithl at gate.kl-ic.com> wrote:
> Excerpt of an email reply, regarding a used book ordered from
> Powells, with a huge unremovable label pasted across half the
> back of the paperback book, over the author institution blurb:
>
> ----- Forwarded message from "Powells.com" <help at powells.com> -----
>...We also
>  don't have the ability to request that they aren't applied, so
>  it's safer to assume that each book will arrive with these labels.
>
> ----- End forwarded message
-----
> Keith

I appreciate Powells frank reply, and their recommendation.  However,
I take exception to "We also don't have the ability to request that
they aren't applied..."  They do have that ability.  I wonder if they
have done so.  If a rash of ordered books got returned because of the
label, who knows what would happen.  I also what would happen if the
order stipulated "no labels".

I find that most adhesives used for such labels are soluble in paint
thinner.  I do not know about the ink used on the paperback cover.

-Denis