Bookstore Bias

www.chronwatch.com ^ | 11/25/02 | Cinnamon Stillwell

[SeenTheLight]

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[Hodar]

Basic laws of capitolism will win. If they do not, or refuse to provide what the public wants ... they will go broke. Sites that sell books people want, will profit. I buy most of my books at Sam's Club and Costco. Good prices, fair selection (of new books). Guess I'm just not 'fancy' enough for those liberal bookstores.

[Fracas]

Bookstore PING!

[Junior]

Hey, they're their stores. They can do whatever they want with them.

[GSWarrior]

I like to go into City Lights and ask 'where is the Ayn Rand section? The response is usually a blank stare.

[RAT Patrol]

Bump!

[Grut]

So? these are private businesses and the owners have a right to run them as they please. Should religious bookstores be required - or even asked politely - to carry the works of Madelein Murray O'Hare for the sake of 'balance'?

[thingumbob]

You might not be fancy enough for those liberal stores but you get an "A" on your economics exam...sooner or later these progressive centrist (sarcasm/off) will hit the economic wall of supply and demand.

[Rockitz]

Here's a good way to fix their respective wagons.

Call these pukes up and ask if they have "Slander" in stock. In fact, ask if they have multiple copies. They record these requests and may realize how much business they're losing.

[FreedomPoster]

Borders, Sam's Club and Costco. And I'm sure all these independent booksellers are whining about these big retailers driving them out of business, when these same independents aren't carrying a class of books the market has demonstrated it wants to buy.

[Bonaparte]

LOL! I used to clown them, too -- asking them where the Eric Voegelin was shelved.

[Dutchgirl]

Here in Jax is a store called "Chamblin's Bookmine" they feature New, Rare, Used, and Non-existant books. They are about the size of a stand alone Barnes and Noble, but their aisles are narrow and their shelves are ceiling high. They used to sell books for 1/2 the cover price, but they had so many good classic books from the fifties and sixties that were thirty five cents, they had to raise their prices to $2.00 minimum.

When shopping for my son's homeschooling, I was able to choose between 6 different translations of "Don Quixote" and a few in the original Spanish. They have a very diverse group of clerks, and if I mistakenly ask the Communist for help, he will show me to the Neo-con. I have never failed to find what I needed on subjects as diverse as Fractal Geometry and the Chaos Theory to the Libretto of "Pirates of Penzance."

[Jumpmaster]

Its always fun to take anything with Hillary's picture on it and move it to TRUE CRIME.

[Billthedrill]

There is also a great hue and cry about how awful is the impending demise of the independent book stores in the face of the marketing clout of the big guys. I think that one reason may be that the indies are heavily dependent on the university market, which is enmeshed in the illusion that conservatives are too stupid to purchase books. It is one of the ironies of these ideologically constipated times that a white, liberal bookstore owner will populate his displays with Kwanzaa material to pull in the black crowd but would be horrified at the notion of populating them with conservative material to pull in the conservative crowd. For which foolishness the market will punish him, and he'll be bleating about how unfair it all is on his way out past the remainder racks and the "Property For Lease" sign on the front door.

[Grampa Dave]

Most of the private owners of independent bookstores on the West Coast are vile left wing maggots. They hire people like themselves to be clerks.

When I tried to by Rush Limbaugh's book, I was literally made fun of by the three independents and one chain store in my town. My older son at that time lived in Bend, Oregon, a conservative town. He bought 3 copies for me. I photo copied the bill and sent a copy to the three local owners and the manager of the chain.

The Black Advenger came out with his book and it was Deja Vue again. I went on Amazon.com and bought a couple of his books and sent copies to the lib book store owners and the chain manager.

That pattern has been repeated on every conservative book from Dr Lott's book "More guns, less crime!" to the latest books.

Two of the three independents have closed their doors and blamed the chains, Walmart and Costco for their demise. The surviving independent is really hurting. That store and the chain place all fishing and hunting magazines on the lower shelf behind every other magazine. If you wanted one, you had to get on your knees. Their Peta Creeps posing as clerks just laughed.

Our local fishing and hunting supply store now carries all of these magazines and they laid out on the checkout counter to buy with no pain. This store will order any fishing or hunting book and get it within days if they don't stock it. The PETA driven left wing stores would take forever and then say they couldn't get the books.

Thanks to competition on the internet, Walmart and Costco and our local hunting and fishing store, I haven't bought a book or magazine in about 5 years from these local left wing book stores.

[Xenalyte]

Here in Jax is a store called "Chamblin's Bookmine" they feature New, Rare, Used, and Non-existant books.

Okay, I'll bite . . . what kind of non-existent books do they sell? If they have it, I'd love a copy of Famous Jewish Sports Heroes.

[wayoverontheright]

Barnes and Noble had just opened in my town about two years ago. I had been lurking on FR for some time and had been apprised of possible liberal bias, which would manifest itself in strategic ill-placement of conservative literature. I found it to be completely true up until a little after Sept 11. Did capitalism win out? Not sure. There's one other independently owned bookstore here whose owner is very much a conservative. "Still thriving even with the advent of Barnes and Noble.

[Grampa Dave]

Re Kwanzaa Material and lily white owners of bookstores, our two surviving bookstores, an independent and a chain, every holiday load up with Kwanzaa Material, displays, cards and books.

Our black population is probably less than 1%. The rest is mainly Hispanic and whites.

These politically correct censors load up on Kwanzaa BS for the 1% and ignore the rest of the population.

Libs in business unless they are protected by their elected officials are truly a self endangered species.

[wildbill]

Several years ago I went into one of the large chains and was browing their magazine section. I tried to find the American Spectator. It had been placed on the bottom section of a large rack on the top row--so that it was invisible unless you got down on your hands and knees.

Positioning make a difference.