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Rash is another word for selling products at a reduced price. The word comes from Yiddish, where it means something like junk or unregulated trade.
The term is mainly used for the sale of remaining batches of books. Because the Fixed Book Price Act prohibits selling books below the predetermined price, stores and publishers are regularly left with books whose sales have fallen short of expectations. Holding these stocks, whether outsourced to the Central Book Office or not, generates a cost.
Once the fixed book price for a book expires, it can be ramshackled. A publisher may then sell the remaining stock to bookstores with a ramshackle department or to "white bookstores" specializing in ramshacks, which can sell them at a reduced price. The space freed up in book warehouses and bookstores can then be used for new titles.
In principle, fixed book prices may not be lifted or lowered until one year after a book is published. Publishers sometimes deviate from this by marking stocks as damaged. Generally, when a book is sold off, authors no longer receive royalties on copies sold afterwards.
