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I can confirm the same is true at my Barnes and Noble in Massachusetts. Every-freaking-place I looked, there was another display of hillary's face.

I made it a point to turn each one around, so that the back cover showed instead of the front. It took me a while, but I think I got them all.

Interestingly, the friend I was there with asked me why I was doing it, and I said because it's all lies. Another patron overheard, (a crunchy granola type) and asked me if I had read it. I said I only had read excerpts in the media, and that was enough for me. He said he wanted to read all the lies, but he refused to pay for the book because, he said, she didn't deserve the money.

I made it a point to turn each one around, so that the back cover showed instead of the front. It took me a while, but I think I got them all.

You should win a Beautify America award!

Prairie

"I made it a point to turn each one around, so that the back cover showed instead of the front. It took me a while, but I think I got them all."

Be careful. While your sentiments are understandable, interfering with the display of a private bookstore could well be a chargable offense of vandalism or some other misdemeanor.

I'm opposed to such actions, on the basis that we're supposed to be supporting small business and their right to do business as they choose.

You would be better off to find the manager of the store, complain to him in person, then shop elsewhere if you're not satisfied with his/her response.

Don't break the law in your effort to make your point. It won't change the bookstore's attitude, but could end up getting you fined.

Mineralman's warning about 'vandalism' strikes me as kind of funny. Customers mis-shelf stuff by accident all the time. You are just absent-minded, that's all. If they waste money on some hopeless lawsuit like that, imagine the publicity circus that would follow. Heck, when I'm 80, I might do something like that on purpose and tempt them.

As for promoting 'small business', we all know that the Hellery hoopla isn't a business decision. It's a political decision. I'm no lawyer, but I would imagine that a customer could walk in to a crowded book store, pick up a Hellery book, berate her, berate the store for pushing that book instead of a Coulter book, plop it down angry in the wrong place in a fit of anger, and walk out. It's a matter of free speech, freedom of expression, and leeway toward customers.

In fact, could it be that stores need to have it clearly written on the walls that books must be returned to their proper place, short of a verbal warning?

Of course, if you shovelled a bunch of Hellery books and misplaced them in a very obvious way and ignored reprimands by clerks, that could be considered illegal.

Then again, it would be better to walk in there and promote a more Coulter-friendly book store, especially Barnes and Noble, until they kick you out.