Fire and Fury Is Out of Stock. Blame a Depression-Era Publishing Policy

  All of which means that print runs are already inflated just to cover the returned books that publishers don’t expect to sell

That makes no sense. Why would you intentionally overprint when it's common that they'll just come back at your expense? The rest of the article's narrative says that publishers print fewer copies than they would otherwise for that exact reason.

"Which means that the difference between the third-best-selling book of the year and the No. 1 best-selling book of the year can be more than 500,000 books, an increase of 100 percent."

This feels quaint in the startup world, where your #1 winner can easily return 10x your #2 winner, and everything else returns zero.

I got the audio book... "Stock"?