As a children’s book author, that is my understanding of ARCs too. But they
make for good summer reading prizes 😉

On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 5:45 PM Skidompha Children's Library <
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> Hello all,
>
> I’ve always understood that you cannot sell ARCs or put them in the
> collection. We have a secondhand book shop, and one of our volunteers asked
> if there’s a specific law against selling them or if it’s just the
> publishers discouraging the sale of ARCs because the author and publisher
> get no revenue from it.
>
> Anyone know the answer on this one?
>
> We don’t have ARCs in our collection, just for the record.
>
> Thanks!
> Jessie
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