[tuna_battle_slight_return]

"No great conspiracy here. It was on the first table of books as I went into my B&N. And this is in a liberal area."

Do you live in or near a large city? My theory is that the stores which have the book in plain sight cannot be in small cities. (but, I could be wrong).

I think location is the silver bullet here -- not whether or not the area is conservative/liberal. Large book stores in San Francisco must have Ann's latest book in plain sight. They have to -- they can't get away with hiding it, like the small cities can.

[kegler4]

"Do you live in or near a large city? My theory is that the stores which have the book in plain sight cannot be in small cities. (but, I could be wrong)."

Not particularly big. The city is about 95,000 and the metro area is close to 200,000.