Among the total return of 607 copies, 17 incomplete questionnaires were removed, with a valid return rate of 84.3%.
At HarperCollins a new unit is experimenting with a model that substitutes profit sharing with authors for cash advances and eliminates returns of unsold copies from booksellers.
But the manufacturers argue that LPs, unlike CDs, are a one-way sale: labels do not accept returns of unsold copies.
"Penguin Books has also undertaken not to repeat these allegations and to seek the return of all unsold copies of the book," the statement said.
Sent to search English archives at the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763, Bréquigny returned with copies of 70,000 documents, largely bearing on the history of the western French provinces that had been under English rule in the Middle Ages.
The thin summer issues grew even less confidence-inspiring. Staffers became used to seeing large numbers of copies returned from the newsstands.
According to a filing in Talk's December-January 2000-2001 issue, the magazine's average newsstand sale for the previous year (ending in October 2000) was 150,164, and the number of copies returned on average was 645,901.
David Lagercrantz, wild of eye and slightly jerky of limb, darts to his desk, which is tucked behind a curved wall right in the middle of his Stockholm flat, and returns waving a couple of copies of Dagens Nyheter, the Swedish newspaper whose nearest British equivalent is probably the Times.
The agreement also required Mr. Marcoux to return all copies of correspondence from Archbishop Weakland.
After the government realized its mistake, defense lawyers were ordered to return all copies of the logbook to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and were warned that they could face prosecution if they disclosed its contents.
Morrison concludes his statement with this paragraph: "My department will also be requesting that the media organisation that published this data advise if they have disseminated the information to any other parties and to return all copies of the information to the department".
