The canceled book trade

[gangweedfan]

Any time a book gets canceled and pulled from stores or amazon the prices jump up and scalpers make a killing. Thing is that the price jump doesnt always last like with ook and gluk which sold at 200 but is now down to 50. If we can predict what books will be canceled next we could make a killing. the question is just how.

Personally I think we can false flag attack companies by emailing them to cancel a book after mass shooting #1000

 

[Uncle June]

That's an idea so stupid it just might work.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

THE BOOK HEIST

 

[gangweedfan]

Mabye we could ask reddit what books should be banned? Or find out which publishers are the most antiracist (cucked). just dont let a post like that get to big or we could run the risk of having a book be cancelled early.

Then we have the long investment: become an established author and then publish something racist so all of your books go up in value.

 

[Thumb Butler]

There is no logic to cancel culture. Just like any kind of fascism the next enemy might be anyone and anything.

 

[The Cunting Death]

Just find a copy of Rage or something that goes for like $50 now

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

I don't think this would work. Books aren't Playstations. Worst case scenario they're sold on an author website, if nowhere else. Even shit like The Turner Diaries can be found easily in paper form, if for a small premium. Never mind stuff Amazon banned recently like When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Movement, which is still widely available.

Just find a copy of Rage or something that goes for like $50 now

That's kind of an exception to an exception. King is one of the (maybe THE) most popular American author(s) and that was a book he wrote under a pseudonym. And then cucked out on and voluntarily suppressed further publication of.

 

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[Fat Bastard]

If you were going to make a serious effort at this you would need to consider each properties' likelihood of adaptation, a good example being Tolkein. There are always grumblings about Tolkein being problematic but there's a new LoTR Amazon series being produced so there is precisely zero chance of that being cancelled with Bezos behind it.

 

[likeacrackado]

I've bought a couple books which I infer have been kicked out of college libraries for being 'racist'. Not really looking to make money, but I'd like to keep them from being destroyed and eventually read them myself.

In order to make decent money on this without moving massive amounts of inventory you'd have to find books which are already somewhat rare. Lesser known works of important authors/thinkers would be a good place to start, because there aren't as many copies and theres a built in audience.

 

[Marissa Moira]

I saw a 250 dollar copy of a Dr. Seuss book in Barnes and noble in their collector section.

So yeah it might work.

 

[The Cunting Death]

I saw a 250 dollar copy of a Dr. Seuss book in Barnes and noble in their collector section.

So yeah it might work.

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Unless its that WW2 propaganda book he did solely for money

 

[Kosher Dill]

I think you'd have to pump and dump pretty quickly. There are already sub-$10 used copies of Dr. Seuss's "Mulberry Street" for sale online - the time window where it sold for hundreds (if indeed any sold at that price) is already over.

I'm not sure I'm convinced that any modern, mass-produced book that gets canceled (or just goes out of print on its own) will ever be worth that much. Have a look at this "most expensive" list on Abebooks for a few months in 2019:
https://www.abebooks.com/collectibles/most-expensive-sales/april-may-june-2019/

Most of the books on there are either centuries old, highly limited editions, or signed by the most famous authors of all time. "Casino Royale" and "Dracula" are the only plain old books on this list.
Dracula hasn't been cancelled yet, of course, but it shows that the maximum demand for Dracula is about $7500 for a rare early edition in excellent condition. And you're not going to sell too many at that price.

Out-of-print cult classics are another angle to look at, but they tend to have very low supply and not that high of a price, comparatively.
Example: John D. Clark's "Ignition!", which I recommend now that it's been reprinted. The original went for $500+, and still does... but there are only one or two copies for sale at any given time.
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=30767958063

If you look at limited editions of popular books, Stephen King released limited editions of all his "Dark Tower" series from some tiny press in New Hampshire, a few thousand copies each, some signed.
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/Se...ntlyadded=all&sgnd=on&sortby=17&tn=dark+tower
These only go for a couple hundred - more if they're signed by King himself. There will be a few dozen of these on sale at any given time.

I'm just not seeing a scenario where you could make more than a couple thousand off of low-end book speculation. You'd be better off buying a first edition of Isaac Newton and then convincing Netflix to do a Newton docu-drama or something like that.

 

[Dysnomia]

But are people actually buying the books?

These books were produced in droves for decades. Anyone who wants a copy can likely get one even if they are currently cancelled.

If you find a buyer dumb enough good for you. They deserve to be bilked and you deserve that money. But I think this is a major risk with very limited, if any, reward.

 

[gangweedfan]

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Wrong and cringe. Sissy/tranny stuff wont get cancelled any time soon and paperback has much less value compared to hardcover.

 

[Sperghetti]

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We want books that are going to be cancelled, not given a Pulitzer.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Actually, I bet you could make some money on old paperback sissy erotica, stuff from the pulp days that might actually have been banned. But it's not like you can just go out and find that stuff in mass quantities.

The real big-brained play is to buy the rights to some old sissy pulps and republish them as "lost works of genius".

 

[gangweedfan]

Actually, I bet you could make some money on old paperback sissy erotica, stuff from the pulp days that might actually have been banned. But it's not like you can just go out and find that stuff in mass quantities.

The real big-brained play is to buy the rights to some old sissy pulps and republish them as "lost works of genius".

This. They are not dime novels they are a dazzling look into the roaring 20s lgbtq movement and the struggle for acceptance that continues today.

 

[High Tea]

• Any beloved classic pre-2015. There's going to be something in it even if it's as simple as not enough minorities in it.
• Books about a historical figure and views them in an admirable light when we can't do that any more - Washington, Jefferson, Lee, etc.
• Stuff pertaining to the major wars that list reasons other than the accepted narrative
• Books where a social issue is mentioned that is no longer acceptable such as seeing being gay as deviant

This plan is interesting but tough to call. The second hand markets like ebay are also being cucked to not allow resale, so it would have to be a book a publisher would be ok cancelling, but at the same time doesn't make such a big media splash that places like ebay will feel compelled to ban resale.

 

[Kosher Dill]

• Any beloved classic pre-2015. There's going to be something in it even if it's as simple as not enough minorities in it.
• Books about a historical figure and views them in an admirable light when we can't do that any more - Washington, Jefferson, Lee, etc.
• Stuff pertaining to the major wars that list reasons other than the accepted narrative
• Books where a social issue is mentioned that is no longer acceptable such as seeing being gay as deviant

Most of that stuff just falls down the memory hole on its own without needing to be cancelled though.
To cash in, it really would have to follow the Dr. Seuss model - a beloved book that's still under copyright gets pulled out of print by its owners with a big media splash, Fox News whips up a big boomer reaction, and you jump in right at that moment and dump your stock.

Another instructive example is the most famous "cancelled" book of all, Little Black Sambo, which I believe was pulled from print sometime in the 80s. It's not hard or expensive at all to get a hold of a copy now on the used market.