This is all true -- Kevin wrote the article in 1993, though, and many of the recent decisions (I would say the last 5-7 years, given the titles on hand) made by buyers with the intention of putting the burden of warehousing and inventory on the publishers occurred in the late nineties, when the Thor ruling had been accounted for, inventory systems changed, and warehousing in general had settled into the "new" routine.
The cost of warehousing older inventory now is certainly higher than it was in the early eighties, when that decision was shaking down, but not in the early nineties (modulo things like inflation), when the push to order far fewer up front copies and rely more on reorders, seems to have become much more common.
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Date: 2004-08-11 07:52 pm (UTC)The cost of warehousing older inventory now is certainly higher than it was in the early eighties, when that decision was shaking down, but not in the early nineties (modulo things like inflation), when the push to order far fewer up front copies and rely more on reorders, seems to have become much more common.