What is next Border's burning books?
Borders isn't banning it. Don't know what the clerk was talking about. It is on their national website and you can check the availability of the book at your local store from there:
http://www.bordersstores.com/search/title_detail.jsp?id=54512158&srchTerms=unfit+for+command&mediaType=1&srchType=Keyword
It's interesting to note that all of the copies of the Bush-Bashing books on display are UNSOLD. They can print them up, but that doesn't mean they are rushing out the doors.
Meanwhile, every single copy of Unfit For Command that hits the shelf is quickly swept up and read.
Kerry opening his yap and attacking this book has to be good for another 1,000,000 copies sold.
With all of the shenanigans going on with the NJ Legislature, this story seems to make perfect sense when you know where the exchange took place..
Time to boycott Borders.
i no longer buy books from borders or barnes and noble for this very reason.
they've always censored books.
i buy my books on line.
If the allegations in the book are true, Kerry is roadkill.
The pen can be mightier than the sword in politics, if not in statecraft.
I think all freepers should call their local bookstores and ask if "Unfit for Command" is in stock. It will ring a bell with the store owners, who need revenue more than they need their liberal principles. I am going to call B&N and a couple of leftist bookstores in my town. If they don't have it, I'm going to ask when they expect to get it in stock.
What is next Border's burning books?
If a bookstore says that they won't sell a book containing lies, ask them why they sell anti-Bush propaganda.
Time to test the Tattered Cover in Denver.
"Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech at Dartmouth College, June 14, 1953
"Every burned book enlightens the world." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1730
"To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves." -- Claude Adrien Helvetius, De l'Homme, Vol. I, sec. 4
"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." -- John F. Kennedy
"Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech at Dartmouth College, June 14, 1953
"Every burned book enlightens the world." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1730
"To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves." -- Claude Adrien Helvetius, De l'Homme, Vol. I, sec. 4
"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." -- John F. Kennedy
I was in the Border's in Rosemont (Pa) today to pick up my ordered copy of Unfit For Command.
I asked if they had another copy, and he said he would check, that it was probably upstairs in the "poly-sci" section.
I commented that this was a brand new book, #1 on NYT, and Amazon, and why was it hidden away upstairs? He asked, what was I insinuating? I said, it would appear you are hiding the book "upstairs", when all other #1 new books are prominently displayed near the entrance.
He didn't like my "insinuations". LOL
Report these clerks and store managers that comment, "we don't sell it . . . it's full of lies", to their corporate office. Chapter and verse with names.
Sending e-mails or letters to corporate will result in perhaps, disciplinary actions upon these employee's.
Let them know what their minions are doing to prevent the company of profits. They will be interested. They want to keep their profits up, investors happy and stock holders in the black.
To me, these clerks believe they are smug by turning away conservatives and need to pay the consequences for their actions by losing their jobs (or, the very least, poor reviews come annual merit pay time). Complicit managers as well. Striking back, justice done.
I'll check out my local Borders and report back.
I just went to the Borders in Livingston (NJ and Unfir for Command was displayed prominently in front next to the Namath book.
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I got my copy at a Borders in Woodbury, Minnesota today.
None of the book stores at the Mall of America had it in and told me that it wasn't due until September 1st. This Borders had it on a table right in front.
Go figure.
I'm in Georgia.
I went to Barnes & Noble this morning to buy the book. I went to the same book store that I bought my last Ann Coulter book. I found the Coulter book in the back of the store buried even though it was a best seller. So I assumed this would be the case of Unfit to Command.
I went to the info desk only to be told they were sold out and I could be put on a reserve list. The clerk was quite helpful and actually nice. She said they sold out of the 25 copies they had immediately. A new shipment was due in 5 days. As I thanked her another customer came up asking for the book.
I went over to Waldon Books and was told the same thing.
This book is big.
BTW, Maureen Dowd's book was quite available in both stores. Shelves were stocked.
This would be the wrong moment in history for any institution that wants to be here next year, to publicly associate itself with Senator Hanoi-John Kerry. That dude is going *splat*. The rest of us are going to remember who his friends were. Memo to businesspeople: stay out of the politics.