Spoilage

Marking means withdrawing books from circulation free of charge. One reason for this can be economic in nature, if a sale does not generate any revenue despite the very low price. The remaining stocks are then pulped. Sometimes books are recalled for legal reasons, for example in the event of a violation of personal rights. Damage also occurs if a certain number of the print run is extremely damaged ( defective copy ) and a sale of these copies to the modern antiquarian bookshops has not been successful.

According to estimates from 2001, around 16 million books are maculated annually.

Word origin

In Middle Latin , maculatura means “stained, damaged piece”, which is derived from the Latin maculare “to stain, soiling ” or macula “blemish”.

Web links

• Spoilage

literature

• Uwe Czubatynski: “Company organization . Conservation, central cataloging , cassation: On the problem of segregation ”, Bibliotheksdienst 38/12 (2004), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/bd.2004.38.12.1612 ., Pages 1612–1616.
• Helmut Hiller, Stephan Füssel: Dictionary of the book . 7th edition. Frankfurt 2006, ISBN 978-3465034957 .
• Wagner, Roland: " Separations at university libraries ", Berlin handouts for library and information science 333 (2012), online .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Number according to Focus No. 50 (2001)
2. ↑ Duden | maculate | Spelling, meaning, definition, origin. Retrieved March 5, 2020 .