http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/08/19/swiftbook/index_np.html
Unfit for bookstores
John Kerry's campaign called on a publisher to remove book after Washington Post attacked the truthfulness of a Swift boat veteran.
By Eric Boehlert Aug. 19, 2004
Kerry's campaign told Salon that Regnery (Unfit for Command publisher) is selling a hoax and should consider withdrawing it from bookstores. "No publisher should want to be selling books with proven falsehoods in them, especially falsehoods that are meant to smear the military service of an American veteran," said Kerry campaign spokesman Chad Clanton. "If I were them, I'd be ducking under my desk wondering what to do." Clanton cited this as a serious problem.
And these are the same people who screamed that Moore's pile of stinking lies should be shown in theaters everywhere.
I bought it at Hastings in Spokane the other day. I was there today and I'm pretty sure I saw it there still.
I bet I know the real reason you are ducking under the desk, Mr. Clanton... Tell Kerry "hello" for us!
I say again and again, we all should be checking our local bookstores, if you have problems with the clerks, ask to speak with the manager. If you have a problem with a manager, ask to speak with the Regional Manager.
Here, please.
No, no problem that I know of. They under ordered, all the copies they have here are on hold for others. Oh, and they don't know when they are getting more, but according to them the publisher is out of stock as well.
Anyone know for sure?
I do think that the stores can't get the book because Regnery underestimated the demand and did not print nearly enough books.
I have heard that they are now in the process of printing a second batch.
I haven't gone seriously looking for it yet, but I was looking through the books in K-Mart today. One of the workers asked if I needed any help (a 1st for me in K-Mart.) I asked if they had Unfit For Command yet. He told me they didn't have it, and got one of his coworkers to join him in telling me how evil Bush is. Did you know that Bush committed genocide so that he could go to war in Iraq and steal their oil? I kid you not! That is what they told me! One of them said I need to see F911, so I'll know the truth!
They are desperate to prevent sales now so it can't end up on the NYT bestseller list (or at least, it will achieve a lower ranking)
Our B&N is ordering me three, but only after they told me it wasn't out yet.
The story I got was that the publisher started the second printing on August 14th. The next story I got was that the publisher couldn't handle the volume. The printing went to another printer on August 17th which could handle one million copies.
You need a few hundred *Crinton memoir books? I can hook you up!
I was at the downtown Borders here in San Diego and in the
front area are the anti Bush books and any popular conservative books you don't see except one that was buried.
On the second floor where all political & world affair books located, jam packed with left wing crap and on the end of the rows in the general area, full of aiti bush books. A few conservative books on the shelved.
I asked one of the workers there, why conservative books on the NY Times best seller list are not in the section where they belong. I got , well I will have to check the computer. I said don't bother, I know why they arn't there and why I and many others have bought many books over the past months at Amazon. I said I guess you folks are making a good profit to drive away customers.
check-the-bookstores-tomorrow-reminder bump.
I went to purchase the book today and there were absolutely none on display anywhere in the store. So I asked the clerk and woohoo! She produced the book . . . from beneath the counter, hidden away.
I got mine from an innocent little thing at Borders that had no clue I was an evil republican troll.
I told her that I couldn't find it because I didn't have my glasses and could she get it for me, she actually checked her stock in the computer in front of me and knowing I was deaf because I didn't have my glasses mumbled softly that she had a hundred copies in the store, then led me around the store on a fifteen minute wild goose chase until she finally asked the next higher up sales clerk where it was.
He was the spitting image of Michael Moore only without the B.O, but he knew right where the book was, and handed me the only copy on display.
I wonder where the other 99 were?
I just got off the phone with B&N in Irvine...He was real nice, so I'll give him that much.
There's been a "problem with shipping" and if I'd like to put my name on a list, he'd be happy to do that. I did. Two books, I said.
I asked him what the problem was...I could hear him typing. He said they were supposed to get them August 16 but there's been such a great demand for the book, due to the publicity, the publisher didn't expect this. He said they (Regeny...sp) had initially printed 30,000, and now they're printing 62,000!! I said COOL!!! That's GREAT for the publisher and the author!
He actually was nice.....
So. That's my little experience. Think I'll order from Amazon, cuz it'll be cheaper, I'm sure.
My wife called a Books-A-Million in my area (Upstate SC) on Sunday (Aug. 15) and they said they only got one copy in and had already sold it. She asked when they would get more in and they said on Thursday (Aug. 19)--a whopping SIX copies. Duh! I'm ordering from Amazon online.
Then I went to Waldenbooks and got the same answer. The lady at Waldenbooks was very nice and told me she had called all over Springfield this morning, and 'everybody was out.'
On the way home I stopped at Sam's Wholesale and they did not have it. The lady there told me she did not even know if they would get it at all. She said they have no control over what comes in.
I have a small Heritage Bookstore here in my little hometown of 3000 people. The sales clerk told me the book was not out yet. I told her she was misinformed, that it has been out for over a week. She seemed surprised. I did not get the feeling that she was deliberately telling me a lie, I think she truly was misinformed.
My favorite little conservative coffee-shop also has not received its shipment yet. The owner had been told by his book dealer that the book was in its third or fourth printing. So far they had printed 175,000 copies. That does NOT sound like a lot of books. Do they only print 50,000 books at a time?
I'm dying to read UFC but probably won't get it here in Korea for at least another month. Anybody here willing to arrange to ship me a copy? (I'll pay for it, of course)
http://www.booksamillion.com/ncom/books?id=2929789909126&pid=0895260174
Unfit for Command
Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry
(Hardcover)
by John E. O'Neill; Jerome R. Corsi
In Stock: Ships within 2-3 days.