Our greatest joy at Medallion Press is sharing our books with readers. Like every book publisher, we have a responsibility to choose what to do with unsold items. Many publishers will store or destroy their remainders, but we’ve found a rewarding way to continue to share our books. Here’s how our remaindering process works.

When we decide a book will go out of print, we offer our authors the option to purchase at least half of their remaining stock at the remainder price. If an author wants to buy less than half of the remaining stock, it is available at a smaller discount. If, however, an author declines the stock, it is offered to remainder houses at the same deep discount the authors were offered. Remainder houses normally purchase high quantities of one title at a time and then distribute them to discount book stores for sale.

At this point, many publishers choose to burn or recycle unsold stock. At Medallion Press, we choose to donate the remaining books to organizations that send care packages to the troops overseas. As of this date, we have donated over forty thousand books of all genres—mystery, thriller, horror, romance, fantasy, and so forth—to Our Troops Online (http://www.ourtroopsonline.com). It’s just a small token of our gratitude for our soldiers’ continued sacrifice, and we look forward to sharing many more of our authors’ great books with these courageous men and women in the future.

The Editors

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