Letters to Barnes and Noble requested

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[Merry]

   Barnes & Noble, Inc. is a retailer that operated 886  bookstores and 1,231 video game and entertainment software  stores as of 2/1/03. The Company also sells books and  software over the Internet. For the 13 weeks ended 5/1/04,  revenues rose 23% to $1.45B. Net income totaled $12.5M vs.  a loss of $2M. Revenues reflect the opening of new book  stores and new GameStop stores. Net income also reflects  improved gross margins and lower depreciation.   

Barnes & Noble on the Forbes 2000

Retailing RANK

1385

Sales $5.59 bil

Profits $.13 bil

Assets $3.55 bil

Market Value $2.43 bil

Employees 39,000

Forbes 2000 data as of 02.13.2004

Chief Executive Officer: Stephen Riggio

Barnes & Noble www.barnesandnobleinc.com 122 Fifth Avenue New York NY, 10011 United States

Phone: 212-633-3300

Company Data

   122 Fifth Avenue New York,  NY   10011 Phone: (212) 633-3300 Fax: (212) 675-0413 mkeating@bn.com

Forbes Lists

   500s: 2003 400 Best Big Companies: 2003

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Officers

   Leonard  Riggio

   Stephen  Riggio

   Joseph J Lombardi

   J. Alan  Kahn

   Mitchell S Klipper

   Matthew A Berdon

   Michael J Del Giudice

   William  Dillard, II

   Irene R Miller

   Margaret T Monaco

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[Merry]

Since Barnes and Noble took it upon themselves to change the name of UNFIT FOR COMMAND to FIT FOR CoMMAND, I thought that some of you might be interested in making a few phone calls or writing some letters.

[Merry]

Some bloggers are reporting that the site might have been hacked into. Drudge is reporting this story now.

[Search4Truth]

It has been changed back to the proper title. But I sent thjem a note anyway expressing my displeasure.

[susiek]

What is this referring to? I was just in a B&N and the cover of the book is the same as anywhere else. Did they do an ad that called it "Fit" instead of "Unfit" or what? It's not like the entire company has printed fake dust jackets with a new cover and placed them on all copies of the book in their stores.

[Merry]

Take a look at www.Barnes&Noble.com and look up UNFIT for CoMMAND. You will see a changed cover and title.

[susiek]

Ok, I went to Drudge and now I understand. But even if their website had the wrong title, the words "swift boat veterans speak out against John Kerry" still appeared, and anyone who ordered the book would get the real deal. If B&N was hacked and responded appropriately once aware of the problem, I see no need to get upset with them.

[illiac]

I called. Was told I'd have to contact Barnes & Noble.com. Their phone number is 212-414-6000. The person who answered the phone acted unaware it had been changed and transfered my call to a voice mail message (please press 1 for...., 2 for....etc. Could not get a person to talk to.

[arbee4bush]

I was just there and it still has the description as "Fit for Command". Hey, this could work--unsuspecting book buyers thinking they are going to get a ro-SKerry book

snicker

[Hans]

Cute. You've got to give the 'children of Lenin' credit - they
are busy devils.

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

If you go to their website, the book is called "Fit For Command". A small thumbnail of the book that appears in the bestseller list shows a different cover, with Kerry and his "band of brothers" on board the Swift Boat.

When I went to bn.com the first thing I saw on their website is that I can pre-order Fahrenheit 911 on DVD. Strangely, the title had not been altered to "A Giant Load of Horse Dung Aimed at Defeating President Bush".

[Peach]

Contact Barnes and Noble at:

(212) 633-3300

[Godzilla]

I just went there and they had the correct cover.

[arbee4bush]

get a ro-SKerry book

*ahem*
Make that 'pro' skerry book :)

[fat city]

My first reaction was "who cares? Let 'em sell more books and let those Kerry supporters read the truth." But they'd probably read it as a confirmation of his "heroics" and "leadership". After all, they haven't read anything else correctly (911 Commision Report, Constitution, etc.).

[Caipirabob]

They have corrected it already. It has been changed back. Hopefully the lefty who did this let the door hit him on the way out.

[Anti-Bubba182]

It is all on the is thread:

Barnes & Noble Website Carries Altered Cover of Anti-Kerry Book

[henbane]

Can't believe the Barnes&Noble commercial website is so easily hacked.

Benign neglect from lib staffers at B&N?

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Fit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out against John Kerry
John E. O'Neill, Jerome R. Corsi

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Hardcover, September 2004

List Price:	$27.95
Our Price:	$19.56  (Save 30%)
Barnes & Noble Member Price:  $18.58

Product Details:
ISBN: 0895260174 Format: Hardcover, 208pp Pub. Date: September 2004		Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc., An Eagle Publishing Company Barnes & Noble Sales Rank: 5

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ABOUT THE BOOK

 From the Publisher

	ABOUT THE BOOK
	Fit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out against John Kerry

	From the Publisher
		In 1971 John O’Neill—the officer who took over John Kerry’s Swift Boat in Vietnam— returned home from Vietnam only to realize that the man he served with, John Kerry, had become a leader of the radical group, Vietnam Veterans Against the War and was slandering his fellow veterans as war criminals. O’Neill debated John Kerry on the Dick Cavett show in 1971, successfully demolishing Kerry’s accusations against his fellow troops in Vietnam. In his new book, Unfit for Command, O’Neill and co-author Jerome Corsi bring together the voices of more than two hundred Navy veterans who served with Kerry, and who feel it their duty to tell why John Kerry is unworthy of the presidency.

[arbee4bush]

refreshing---refreshing. Still the same here. On the homepage with the top ten bestsellers listed, "Fit" for Command is #5.

[martinidon]

the cover is correct, the description of the book still says "Fit" for command.

[Dr.Syn]

Just went to B&N and the title listed is Fit to Command. Tried calling and the person who answered played dumb and then put me into an automated system with no human contact. Going now to check Borders and Amazon.