My Trip To Barnes & Nobles

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[Ditter]

Tonight at Barnes & Nobels I got angry! I went to buy Dick Morris's new book Rewriting History. When I entered the store the table facing the front door was covered with all the new anti-Bush books, too many to mention. I looked all the way around the table expecting to find Morris on the back side. His book wasn't there.

I went to the nearest cash register & asked the lady where I might find Rewriting History (I am starting to smolder). She checked the computer and then informed me it was all the way across the store on the back wall.

I asked her why it was that the anti-Bush books slapped me in the face when I came in, but I had to ask for help to find Morris's book. She frowned and then said "I wish I knew, I just do what I am told". I told her I would like to ask the manager that question and she said "I wish you would, let me call him". She was grinning from ear to ear.

In a few minutes the manager showed up and after I asked him my question he blushed and stammered for a minute. Then he apologized several times and said he would make sure, from now on, that the front table would be "fair and balanced".

Then he added that the pro Bush books sold better anyway and they should be up front, like he didn't even know that they weren't.

[writer33]

"Oh well, maybe I'm just being paranoid! :-)"

No. Bookstores are designed that way by the companies. It reaks of elitism. That's the way they wanted it.

[Ditter]

Good suggestion but I don't know any locally owned book stores . We go to Murder By The Book but they only sell murder mysteries. I'll have to research that in the Houston area.

[I'm ALL Right!]

Hahaha! Glad to know I'm not the only one who does that!

[writer33]

My advice is to go to Hastings or any other bookstore. Barnes & Nobles are the worst when it comes to elitism, liberal, anti-bush hatred.

[The Great RJ]

The key point is that almost no one is buying this anti-Bush propaganda. Look at recent best sellers like Hannity's book and O'Reilly's. When the election is over, Barnes and Noble will have a lot of these trash Bush books sitting on discount tables or carried to waiting dumpsters.

[rllngrk33]

I shop exclusively at Border's ...

The last time I went into a Border's I was amazed at the freak show that was working there. Grungy college students with body piercings etc.

Kind of reminded me of the days when I worked at Barnes and Noble's main store in NY. I never thought that crap would catch up to me 25 years later in the DC suburbs.

[Ditter]

If there is a Hastings bookstore in Houston, I have never seen it. We do order from Amazon but sometimes its nice to browse.

[antaresequity]

Borders should pay me for all the book re-arranging I do.

I constantly take the Pro-Bush books and move them to more prominent locations...

I also take Soldier of Fortune out of the hunting section and move to Political Events - Current Affairs.

When I am really feeling nasty I hide Michael Moore books and anything to do with Hillary that is flattering.

Doing my part....

[Lexinom]

This is it (re: article mentioned in post #2): B&N supports militant homo agenda [my title]

First heard about this during the last Presidential election, from Michael Medved.

[VanZant]

Where do you live? I have had your experience many times in B & N-- unfortunately, I wasn't as assertive as you were.

[buffyt]

I keep running into that. And this is a very small Texas town that went for Bush last time. And conservatives read more non-fiction than liberals do anyway. But when I went to look for THE THIRD TERRORIST by Jayna Davis, neither of our bookstores had it - they ordered it for me because they could have it there in a day or two, faster than Amazon.... but both bookstores had full shelves front and center of anti Bush books.

[writer33]

"If there is a Hastings bookstore in Houston, I have never seen it. We do order from Amazon but sometimes its nice to browse."


First. Move out of Houston. Second. Continue shopping online. That's all the browsing you need when confronting the belly of the liberal beast.

[Straight Vermonter]

It's because you have spyware on your computer. Seriesly...

[buffyt]

...and we can read....

[TheBigB]

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[Quix]

GOOD FOR YOU!

I still turn lying history upside down wherever I find it in any store.

[fullchroma]

Were the censored political party Democrat in this scenario, the ACLU, NYTimes and CNN would be all over it, claiming first amendment abuse.

[alnick]

I don't know overstock.com's politics, but they have the best book prices around. I just bought Misunderestimated from Overstock.com for $16 and change, which is a few bucks less than Amazon, and I'd already sworn off of Amazon when they were hawking the French conspiracy book about 9/11.

[Straight Vermonter]

Here in "blue country" the small bookstores are generally "mom and mom" operations if you get my drift and they NEVER carry anything conservative.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

The pro-Bush books aren't in front for the same reason that tomato soup is on the bottom shelf in the grocery store.

Very possible true. But you forget one little tool that the marketers use in the grocery stores that that affects product placement and just might also be applicable in book stores:

Slotting fees.