We need to stop givinig these people any kind of press.
Why?
Oh I read the article but that is just stupid
You don’t Elevate yourself by putting others down.
Johnathan Kellerman has a gay cop character in his books. A belching slob gay cop. Rarely mentions his proclivities. Most of his are pretty good.
His wife also writes. Read one of her books. Of course the main character was a lesbian.
Read one of the very popular Patricia Cornwell’s books. The main character has a macho lesbian sister.
Argh!
I’ll stick with Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch and Lee Child’s Jack Reacher.
Don’t they have the author’s picture on the back? So, they’re showing all the male authors, those misogynists!
OOH, if there is profit spike, it would only encourage more business owners to create disharmony between the genders [, races, religions, just because, ...]
OTOH, I remember a chain in Boston, Filene's or Jordan Marsh, having a promotional campaign entitled "Orient Expressed" featuring live acts and demonstrations, at least at the flagship store, that luckily coincided with the tv premier of "Shogun". That drove sales of woks and chopstick hair thingies, among sales in general, from the extra, positive, traffic.
soon to be out of business.
Should be easier to find the books about cats & hairstyle.
Nice to see ‘Atlas Shrugged’ and ‘The Fountainhead’ so prominently displayed ...
Notice that this was only in the fiction section. If they had done that in the non-fiction section, they would have embarrassed themselves by showing the stereotypes are real. Half of the cooking and new age self help books would be turned over, but 80-90% of everything else in non-fiction would be turned over.
It would be like if in the Super Bowl, the Atlanta Falcons required Tom Brady to be blindfolded for the entire game. Then when Atlanta won the Super Bowl they would all pat each other on the backs for "beating" Tom Brady and the Patriots.
Of course, showing that Art can never top Life for absurdity, the owners of the book store where "Portlandia" filmed these skits has shown Liberalism's total lack of humor by banning "Portlandia" from filming at the store; for the usual catechism of reasons; "Transmisogyny – Racism – Gentrification – Queer Antagonism – Devaluation of Feminist Discourse".
My daughter manages a department at a bookstore. They are interested in selling books.
I buy the books I want online. No need to deal with BS like this at stores. Enjoy losing more customers.
It is stunts like this that are driving people to order books online.Say what you will about Jeff Bezos’ politics, if you want a particular book, you will get it, without an argument.