[GretchenM]

In case there's a (c) issue with Salon, this is rephrased.

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.

[SteveH]

At a Silicon Valley Borders yesterday I asked for it. The clerk told me they were sold out, but that more were being ordered and were on the way, and added without prompting that she hoped that the word would spread that Kerry is "unfit" to be president.

[The Wizard]

I ordered mine from Amamzon and received it today

[Rainbow Rising]

Out of curiosity I visited the Barnes & Noble on 6th Avenue and 8th Street (Greenwich Village) in New York City on Wednesday. I didn't expect to find it there, because this particular branch heavily promotes anti-Bush books. However, I was pleasantly surprised to find a stack of copies on the New Non-Fiction Releases table in the front of the store. A second stack was prominently placed in a display area at the information desk. I had already ordered the book from Amazon, so I didn't buy it, but I was pleasantly surprised to see it out in the open.

[July 4th]

If there are lies in the book, then it is the reader's job to identify and question them. The bookseller has the singular goal of passing a good on to the public.

Here's an even bigger question. How come the press isn't doing their job on this? They should be investigating the book, as they are doing. But they should also being investigating the well-documented charges. It is the biggest case of journalistic malfeasance that I have ever seen. They've blown their duty to the public.

[TatieBug]

SWIFTIES RULE...I've been on a waiting list for 4 books at B & N in Fashion Island, Newport Beach, CA. Went in person after the 1st week and they told me the publisher didn't expect it to be so popular and B & N was distributing in the East first. I asked how many they had on order and it was over 100. Called and got the same story but didn't admit my order was already there. Finally this afternoon they called that my books were in stock....huuummm...just happened to come in hours later! Called Borders and got the same publisher's story. It's sounding like they are all together in trying not to get this book out but FREEPERS...keep calling the bookstores. The sales people will get sick of it and hopefully give into the customers! I copied and pasted a photo of the book on an Email to lots of friends and told them to call B & N in their area. Most of them reported back the same, ole, tired story. Anybody else getting this?

[TheDon]

Buy it here:

http://www.conservativebookservice.com/bookpage.asp?prod_cd=c6527&sour_cd=REB000201

Publisher:

http://www.regnery.com

[GretchenM]

FYI and ...

[Salvation]

Keep calling!

Anyone have the website for national office for Borders?

[FairOpinion]

Conservative site Human Events seem to have it, I put it into the shopping cart and it didn't say it's out of stock.

http://www.hebookservice.com/BookPage.asp?prod_cd=c6527&sour_cd=HEB002901

[Mo1]

Did the Kerry Camp threaten them with lawsuits too??

[GretchenM]

FYI

[wardaddy]

while it appears that many pinkos who work in these stores hate the book, that the problem is that they did not order or print or distribute enuff.

Ingram Distributors is local here and I plan to call or maybe even drive by at Interchange City.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

I just checked Barnes and Noble website for this book by doing a search for the title. Says it's available in "1 - 2 weeks". However, I just went to the Borders website and did a search and all the stores in my area have it in stock. Maybe it's a Barnes and Noble policy to - ahem - conveniently understock this book, as you suggest? EVEN on their WEBSITE?

[Rastus]

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.

Wow. Talk about chill winds. It's a good thing every book in a book store up until now was vetted by the government and deemed truthful.

[yoe]

You can of course order from Amazon or get a free copy by subscribing to News Max here:

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/8/15/161940.shtml

All the book sellers mentioned have tables loaded with the Clinton fables.............I keep putting other books over them*~*

[fly_so_free]

More incidents of "Unfit" book suppression HERE

There must be something that can be done about this. It's not right, or fair to the publisher or bookshop owners.( Unless they just don't want to make a profit.)

[TheEaglehasLanded]

censorship

[anonsquared]

Posted this on another thread but it deserves repeating...

A couple of years ago I noticed that Barnes & Noble and Borders were not ordering &/or hiding the conservative viewpoint books while at the same time constructing huge shrines to the latest socialist skata at the front of their stores. I complained to the managers and was basically told to take a hike. I wrote to corporate headquarters and heard nada, zip, nothing, zilch. Needless to say, I switched to only buying from a small local bookstore that gets me everything I want, remembers my name, and gives me service with a smile.

I didn't quit going to B&N and Borders however. In fact I pop in every chance I get to rearrange their stock. The fun part is in figuring out funny places to put the liberal drivel. When I can find a Limbaugh, Coulter, or Hannity book, I hide the Clinton or Moore books behind them. Libs would never think of looking there! I have hid them behind the books of Western history and Western philosophy. You can also move them behind the Christian section books or behind whatever diet books are currently not the rage. It's also fun to rearrange the CDs of certain people. Sometimes you just know that the Dixie Chicks actually belonged under Military Marching Music!

I've convinced bunches of conservative friends to do the same thing. If you go into these stores with some buddies, you can make a game of it. Whoever does the funniest or most creative shuffle, gets a free lunch! Once I was actually able to overhear an employee telling a socialist customer, "The computer says we have ten of Michael Moore's books. Are you sure there wasn't one on the shelf?" HAHA!

Maybe if people around the entire US start doing it and it starts costing B&N and Borders MILLIONS of $ to straighten out their shelves, they'll straighten up and fly RIGHT!

[nycgal]

I went to two Borders in Orange County, CA yesterday. Neither had the book for sale. Employees in one store said they had ordered 18 copies and they all sold. The other store had yet to receive their order. I'm not sure I believe their stories.

Both stores had all the anti-Bush books displayed prominently and I wasn't able to find one pro-Bush anywhere unless you count Tommy Franks' book as one.

I ended up ordering a copy from Amazon.

[fuzzy122]

I thought "you people" were paranoid.

Yesterday I went to the local Borders* book store to get "Unfit for Command". I was told by the cashier "we don't have it." He then asked another employee who said "No. We don't have it yet." He then yelled over to a man in a white shirt walking 30 some yards away and repeating the inquiry "When are we getting 'Unfit for Command'?" 3 times, this man who seemed to be in charge lamented that, "I wish I knew." I informed him that it was "# 1 on Amazon" he said, "Yah. Wish I had it. I'd be selling 'em." I asked if he knew when they might arrive. He said, "For some reason the publisher sent them all back east. We didn't get any here in California. I can't say when we'll get 'em."

I thanked him and left.

This morning my glasses broke. I went to Lens Crafters to get them repaired and on the way I stopped at Barnes and Noble, the store on Stevens Creek1. There I was told the same story almost word for word. The publisher had shipped them all back east. I proceeded to Lens Crafters at Westgate Mall2. They couldn't repair my glasses but recommended a repair shop, Optico on South Bascom (I recommend this place highly if you need to get your frames welded).

Anyhow, before leaving Westgate2 I stopped into the Barnes and Noble2 located there and received the same story again. The publisher had shipped them all back east. I thought to myself - how stupid the publisher was because everyone I spoke with said that they had many inquires for the book and wished they had some to sell. I figured well being such a big seller maybe they just ran out due to a limited 1st printing.

I left there and went to Optico to drop off my glasses (that pair is only used for the computer, lest you think I was driving while visually impaired). I left Optico and realized I was fairly close to The Pruneyard3 shopping center. I had an hour to kill before my glasses would be ready so I went there. When I pulled into the parking lot I noticed another Barnes and Noble3 book store. I went in to browse around (by the way, as in all of the other stores, I noticed stacks and stacks and rows and rows and piles and piles of "My Life by Bill Clinton").

I struck up a conversation with the lady at the information booth. I mentioned to her that everywhere I go I see mountains of "My Life" in stacks on the floor. She grinned when I commented on how well they must be selling. We chatted for a few more minutes I told her to have a nice day and as I turned to leave I asked, almost as an after thought, if she had any idea of when they would be getting in "Unfit for Command". She turned around and reached behind her somewhere turned back around towards me and handed me a copy. I was stunned - speechless. I thanked her and went to the front counter, got in line to wait to pay for it. I felt uneasy as I was standing there in line, I opened the book, took off my driving glasses and brought the book up to within inches of my nose (remember my reading glasses were in the repair shop) so I could read the cover liner. After about 30 seconds a lady behind the counter looked over at me (her facial expression got very "serious" when she saw what I was holding up - in front of God and everybody) she quickly called to a young kid said something to him as she pointed to me. He practically ran to a vacant cash register off to the far end of the counter and called me over. I don't know if I was getting the "bum's rush" or what, but as I left the store I think I did actually look up to make sure there was no black helicopters waiting. It was very surreal.

Tonight I checked FreeRepublic.com (as I do every evening) and noticed this thread. It got me thinking.

Just for kicks, I called the Barnes and Noble store on Stevens Creek1, who knows maybe that got their shipments in this afternoon and it was all just coincidental. I asked if they had "Unfit for Command". I was once again told how the publisher sent them all to the east coast. The person that answered said that he had had "...827 people ask for it today...".

I told him to send them all to The Pruneyard3 store because I just bought a copy there. When I pushed him for an answer as to why all three of their store where telling everybody this "east coast" story he sort of hemmed and hawed and thanked me for letting him know. He then hung up!

Make of this what you will - but I got mine!

Sorry for being so long winded - but it was a very strange day...

I gotta go read now...

 

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