How The PM March 70% Warehouse Sale is Mitigating Capitalist Waste

Surviving The Book-Industrial-Complex

Every year, millions of good books end up “pulped” by the book industry’s big distribution companies when they are returned by retail outlets and on-line stores. At PM, we pay a ransom of sorts to save our books from the grinder and landfill. We painstakingly sift through waist deep stacks of unsorted books, wipe them off, and offer them cheaply to you. Very few other publisher’s make this effort. We do this for a few reasons. Some are due to the imperatives of running a business under capitalism and others are to further our political mission. Selling returns—almost all of which come from Amazon—allows us to mitigate large losses and get radical books into many more hands.

The core of our effort to challenge this absurd capitalist waste is our warehouse. Most other publishers offload stock management to the same large distributors who destroy books as a matter of course.

Our warehousing experience gives us the expertise and space to find good homes for these slightly damaged, but perfectly readable, books. Most major publishers have little physical contact with their stock.

Just like the perfectly edible, but slightly bruised, fruit rotting in dumpsters and farm fields because of “consumer preference,” these books are perfectly serviceable in their “damaged” condition. Some look just like new books out of the box, but expect a bent corner or two, maybe a little grit, or residue of some long-lost label.

So, pick up a few great books cheap while helping us survive the book-industrial complex and fight back against capitalist profligacy by stocking up on books that inspire critical thought and action:

use the coupon code

dinged

until 3/31/24

to get 70% off any and all of the titles below.

*Signed books are not included in the sale since they are not shipped to Amazon for sale.

Want to check out these–and so many more cheap books–in person?   Join PM Press, Riot Act Books, and a band of fellow book sellers from around the country for the first annual Upstate Anarchist Book Fair and Warehouse Sale on May 4 and 5 in Binghamton, NY.   

Check out the website for more details: https://upstateanarchistbookfair.com/.

To help you navigate our fantastic collection of titles we’ve separated them by category below— just click on the link you’re interested or scroll down to see them all.

Labor, Anarchism, LGBTQA+, History, Hardcovers, Music, Stellar Fiction, Important Nonfiction, Political Economy, Graphic Novels & Art, Climate, Vegan Cook Book, Blank Unlined Journal