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To: xzins

Here's an addition to your methods: after buying your books from Amazon.com, make sure you send a message to Borders, Barnes and Noble and so forth, even telephone your local store to speak with the owner/manager, and tell them what you did and why you did it. Let them know you voted with your consumer dollars that you would not be treated like that by some left-wing freaks who take it upon themselves to be media censors. I laugh when I read that these misfits are doing these types of things to "save what's left of our country". Well, at least they have one thing right - they are saving what's "left", indeed. But, their hypocrisy is, shall we say, "astounding".


39 posted on 09/15/2004 5:42:06 AM PDT by astounded
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To: astounded

FYI Borders has a marketing/sales agreement with amazon.com.

Go to Borders.com and look at the top!


50 posted on 09/15/2004 5:52:17 AM PDT by ruiner
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To: astounded

The bookstores that censored are no better than the bookstores that are poorly stocked. The bottom line is that they don't have the book I want when I go there. (And trying to find out what they have is a pain in the rear.)

I can order far more easily off the web. It's simply a fact.

They can cater to liberal readers if they wish, but they should be aware that that is less than half their potential market. How many people really want to read about granola, mystic crystals, and Global Gaian Warming?

Readers of Adventure and readers of serious political commentary are moderate to conservative.


66 posted on 09/15/2004 6:07:46 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army and Proudly Supporting BUSH/CHENEY 2004!)
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To: astounded; xzins
Here in the left border of IA, there have been several articles in the paper about how buying on line is "not neighborhood friendly, support the local unions and keep the money in town".

I have talked with most of the book sellers in town, and they all have told me that they "Don't stock propaganda".

When you ask them about the Dowd and Moore special section, they always yell "that is truth!". I now buy from small book stores that don't have much in the way of selection, but will happly order anything you want.
82 posted on 09/15/2004 6:21:10 AM PDT by redgolum
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