alt Hacker NewsI worked in an academic library that rebound pretty much every book they acquired. One of the biggest in the world, too.
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pfdietz • today at 2:09 PM
Nowadays, academic libraries are moving their books to archival storage. New publications are electronic only. You need to be a formal member of the university community to access it, unlike in times past when any member of the public could stroll the aisles of physical books and journals.
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My wife worked for a company that specialized in rebinding paperbacks for schools and libraries. It makes more economic sense to do that for niche use cases rather than make all print runs more expensive.