[mdefranc]

Hmmm, I think that B&N would respond to your proposal this way: conservative nonfiction in the OPINION section and liberal opinion in the NONFICTION section. B&N employees, like most liberals, aren't too hung up on reality and facts - with them, it's how an author FEELS about certain topics that determines a book's merit.

[summer]

conservative nonfiction in the OPINION section and liberal opinion in the NONFICTION section

IMO, that's EXACTLY the way the NYT previously published its weekly education column, titled at that time, "Lessons." It was always written by someone taking a liberal point of view, and always bashing any reforms in education by conservatives. Any rebuttal written by a conservative was published in the "Op Ed" (opinion) section of the newspaper, but never in the "Lessons" column,

Now, they have changed the title of the column to something like "Education" -- but they seemed to have abandoned their simultaneous announcement that they would now have a variety of writers on that column. I have only read recent bashing of education reforms by the same writer, a Michael someone.

In short, I think you make a very valid point.