Do You Want To Get Really Pissed OFF. Walk Into A Barnes & Noble

[DEM FAN]

Walden-Books Borders Maybe Any Other Book Store In This Country
And You WILL See So Called Authors Writing About How Bad Liberals
Are. From Mona Charen, Ann Coulter,Bill O'Reilly, Michael Savage
And The List Goes On And On And On And On And On and On And On And On
And On And On And On And On And On. It Just Makes Me SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Proud To Be A Democrat. :dem:

[onehandle]

1. Flip the books...

Cover 'em up with Hillary's book etc...

That's what I do.

[Lithos]

3. We think alike

I used to use Blinded by the Right or Stupid White Men as the front books before Hillary's new one.

L-

[LiberalFighter]

12. Two other methods:

Turn them so the binder is towards the wall that way the title won't be displayed.

Move some of them to the fiction section.

If you have something to leave behind in the book that would drive those conservative nuts crazier. It would require planning to have messages that would fit the book. Of course without damaging the books because getting caught would be risky.

[caledesi]

13. F*uck them.

[U4ikLefty]

18. Hey hey, more good ideas fom my fellow DU'ers

Gonna have some fun tomorrow at my local Book chain...Woo-Hoo!!!

Thanks for the ideas...now I remember why I come here, such sharp liberals on this board w/good ideas.

[leftyandproud]

23. no offense..

but that is childish.

[TankLV]

28. but it does the soul good!

[Lithos]

2. Just remember though

That the two best selling books dealing with politics this past year have been Stupid White Men and Hillary Clinton's Living History. Most of the books you mentioned are scheduled for remaindering.

L-

[blondeatlast]

5. I was about to say that myself . . .

nm

[Cassandra]

6. A Clive James favorite of mine

"The Book of my Enemy Has Been Remaindered"
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~jpd/remaindered.html

"The book of my enemy has been remaindered
And I am pleased.
In vast quantities it has been remaindered
Like a van-load of counterfeit that has been seized
And sits in piles in a police warehouse,
My enemy's much-prized effort sits in piles
In the kind of bookshop where remaindering occurs.
Great, square stacks of rejected books and, between them, aisles
One passes down reflecting on life's vanities,
Pausing to remember all those thoughtful reviews
Lavished to no avail upon one's enemy's book --
For behold, here is that book
Among these ranks and banks of duds,
These ponderous and seemingly irreducible cairns
Of complete stiffs."

It goes on, hilariously!

[LoZoccolo]

7. Plus I've heard...

...that think tanks and other organizations buy a lot of copies and then give them away. Anyone know where this might be documented?

[w13rd0]

10. Also, big donors buy in large lots...

...and then give them away at parties like door prizes. Documented? No, but I have a few. It doesn't only happen on one side of the isle though, admittedly. I love introducing people to literature. I try not to introduce them to tripe though, that rules out most of those mentioned.

[madrchsod]

15. in the best sellers list

there is a star(?) next to the numbers, that means there is bulk orders being shipped or bought in bulk..i never have checked this out so my explaination isn`t very clear..but you can tell by that symbol...it`s late...

[w4rma]

20. "A dagger (+) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders"

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/20/books/bestseller/0720besthardnonfiction.html

[betty boop]

4. Don't They Realize...

...People will start to get angry at them for being so criticial of us. Most people don't like dirty politics.

[w13rd0]

9. Actually, what's happening...

...is that as people are seeking alternatives, and find themselves listening to what's being said, they are going, "THAT is supposed to be a liberal, hell, I agree with them, am I a liberal? Wow, does that make me a traitor too? That's not right, everyone I know thinks it's wrong to slash veterans benefits and reduce danger pay. Wellstone fought for veterans? Wait a sec, wasn't he a liberal? And that Max Cleland lost limbs in a war, but Coleman and Chambliss are chickenhawks." When you've been fed lies for years, and you finally realize it, it's like ex-smokers, or reformed whatever. Extremists gravitate toward extremes (see David Horowitz), while people more toward the middle just fume and feel shat on. Eventually, things change, one way or another.

My "conversion" was upon realization that it wasn't so much that my positions had changed, but my perspective had been radically manipulated over the course of several years. When I realized that I actually wanted my vote to mean something, and I wanted to, no, EXPECTED, that a candidate speak to ME to get my support, that was my revolution.

Dirty politics has just made it easier to sell out the system to the highest bidder as the media focuses on infotainment rather than assisting consumers/citizens to make informed decisions. The neocons are the very worst kinds of collectivists. Ron Paul was right to call them Trotskyites by another name. And the neofascist moniker is also quite fitting. These are people that think the ends justify the means, and lying is an appropriate way of doing business and government.

[sandnsea]

8. That's cuz nobody buys them

Otherwise they wouldn't be there for you to see them. Perhaps it's time to ask the bookstore managers why they order books nobody buys?

[Nigel_Tufnel]

11. i don't even go in there...

everything is WAY overpriced! i use the library for the mainstream things, and make notes on the books i want to read but the library doesn't have. you can find them on ebay or abebooks for a song if you wait a bit. i have come across some really exotic books at flea markets! i hate it when i pay $30 dollars for a book, and see it a few months later for $1! i almost bought a paperback of "fast food nation" for $14 in a bookstore, found a hardcover last week for 50 cents. Even Barnes & Noble's overpriced sodas offend me...

[NYC]

14. Can you make requests at your library?

We can. If they don't have a book, we can ask for it. As a last resort, they try to get an interlibrary loan. (They once got me a book from Albany because their own copy had been stolen.)

Also, we can reserve books that are in popular demand. The next time it becomes available, they notify us, and we get the books.

Ask your library if they do this sort of thing.

I was told that Farewell America by James Hepburn was not available in the U.S. I put in a request at the library, and within a few weeks, I had it.

[ryharrin]

16. Actually, I was very pleasantly surprised when

I went to Borders last week. Living History was everywhere, along with a whole bunch of liberal-ish books on the first table as you walk in. I actually had to search to find a copy of Treason, and there was only one copy (and there wasn't spaces for more, so its not like they've been selling like hotcakes)

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

19. Our local B&N In Minnesota was the same way.

Lots of display set up for "Living History" and other politically-like books, and "Treason" was actually hard to find. Not a big display at all. I asked a sales rep there, and they said they had to keep re-stocking Clinton's book, it was selling so fast. (Although, obviously, not as fast as Harry Potter. That was a nightmare.)
Maybe it's because I'm in Minnesota, albeit a very conservative part of the state. Maybe it was because of the workers here are usually college students, a lot of liberal arts people, or maybe "Treason" just simply isn't selling very well here.

[sham]

17. Add Target to your list.

I generally think Target is a good alternative to Wal-Mart (where I REFUSE to set foot),
but when I was in there yesterday, they had a massive collection of conservative
hate-books prominently displayed on an endcap in the book section. On the bottom shelf
were a few copies of "Stupid White Men" (which I arranged in front of the more offensive
of the conservative offerings) but I saw no Hillary anywhere.

Humph.

Do you think that Laura Stepford-Bush's future memoirs will sell anywhere close to a million copies?

[philosophie_en_rose]

29. Maybe Living History is selling too fast?

[ClintonTyree]

21. Flip the books............

or my favorite, clandestinely tearing the dust jackets on each and every one you can. These books must then be returned to the publisher for credit. Disclaimer; I'm not condoning or promoting this method, I'm just sharing my favorite methodology. I'm a bad boy!

[newyawker99]

22. Hi sham!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[zoidberg]

26. Burning them works equally well

I like to round up all the books with which I don't agree and set them all on fire. That way, people don't have to be exposed to ideas that I think are wrong.

[philosophie_en_rose]

27. It's not that bad.

It's ...um... reverse marketing? :shrug:

This is how I perceive the situation. Copies of Living History and Stupid White Men are actually being sold. Thus, there are less copies around the store and less reason to advertise them. That leaves Ann Coulter's face staring in the aisles, which is extremely unpleasant.

I don't have the time to deal with every copy of unpurchased conservative phlegm. However, I have occasionally turned the front row of copies upside down.

It's absolutely childish, but, as they are left that way, I don't think anyone minds.

[OrdinaryTa]

24. A Book Store Is Like Any Other Store

Book stores are like clothing stores or pet shops or liquor stores. They buy wholesale and sell retail. It's possible that conservative publishers give the big retailers a bigger discount but who knows? Stores give premium shelf space where they make the most money, whether it's from volume or markup.

There's no conspiracy here.

[FlashHarry]

25. Last time I was there, I bought Mailer's "Why are We at War?"

Just to spite the fuckers. Good book, by the way. (Actually, it's more like a pamphlet. It's a collection of essays and speeches on the Iraq war.)