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About 10 years ago some buddies of mine self-published a book. IIRC, they had to print something like 15k of them. (Publishing on demand did not exist yet.) They sold something like 8 on Amazon, and a couple hundred at trade shows. Two years after publishing, the manufacturer of the item the book concerned obsoleted the product. This effectively instantly killed demand for their book, and they had 14.5k+ left.

It was a running joke for years. They made a table out something like 2,000 of the books. They used another few hundred into an aquarium stand. We had bonfires where we burned their books....for almost 10 years. They did end up recycling the bulk of them eventually.