New Delhi: In a first of kind book sale, leading
publication house Harper Collins will throw a garage sale and will more than 100,000
books on sale, with more than 1,000 titles that span across genres will be
stacked at their warehouse in Faridabad on June 24 and June 25 from 10 am to
6pm for the bookworms. “All paperback titles will be available
at Rs. 25 while hard bounds can be purchased at Rs. 50,”
the publishing house said in a social media post.
All the books will be available in a throwaway price of Rs.
25 while the coffee table books will be open to bargain up to Rs. 100. Box collections of GRR Martin, Paulo Coelho or
similar authors will be sold on 90 per cent discount.
Following the announcement, Arvind Gupta, Warehouse and
Distribution Head of Harper Collins, said:
“This is unprecedented. We are expecting 500-600 people to come over the
two days, but going by interest levels already — I’ve received calls from the
Andamans, Odisha, Himachal Pradesh — it might be more. I am expecting close to
100 people just when we open.”
The publishing already has noted that not all the books are
new, neither the books are second hand, but those are old. Harper Collins,
while organizing the sale, said that those looking for new books ‘need not
despair’, but new titles will be available at the sale with ‘staff discount.’
Though an open garage sale, Harper Collins have implemented
couple of conditions on it. A customer cannot buy more than two copies of one
title, booksellers and distributors cannot buy or sell a single book in the
sale and the books, once sold are non-returnable.
Customers can pay with either card or cash, but according
to the organizer, they have managed only one POS machine, so hard cash is more
preferred. Following the whooping sale, Harper Collins has decided to donate 20
percent of the revenue to Friendicoes, a Delhi-based animal welfare NGO.
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