Heath (see, I got it right this time) posted about a bookstore in Ohio that was going out of business.

A bookstore in Ohio has come under fire for throwing away hundreds of unsold books when it went out of business. A local TV news reporter came across the overflowing dumpster and got upset that the books weren't donated to area nonprofits. The reporter became even more upset when she learned that taking the books out of the trash was illegal. [Heath Row's Media Diet]

He goes on to day that it's only selling books without covers that is illegal (and even then, not necessarily all books from the sound of it). I remember my grandmother used to always have lots of books with the covers ripped off. I wonder where she got them all. Maybe she was a black market paperback book seller!