Anti Federalist
05-15-2008, 12:59 AM
From LRC blog:
I just came out of a Books-a-Million store where, under "New Books on Politics" there was no sign of Ron Paul's The Revolution: A Manifesto. I asked one of the clerks about it and she said it wasn't even in the store's computer system as a book they've ever carried. I informed her that it was #7 on the NY Times bestseller list last week, and will be #1 this week.
She was apparently upset over this news, and quickly grabbed a copy of the NY Times bestseller list from last Sunday that was near the cash register. She looked at me in a very self-satisfied way and said, "No it's not. It's not on here." After I suggested that she look at the #7 ranking the smirk disappeared from her mug. So that the customers behind me would hear it, I rather loudly recommended to her that if the store's management was interested in making money they might consider the strategy carrying a few copies of the NY Times #1 national bestseller.
Ain't the free-market great! Idiots like the managers of Books-a-Million who substitute their own personal preferences for their fiduciary duty to make money for the corporations' owners will be quickly "punished" with lower profits and maybe even bankruptcy. That won't be good for their careers (and bank accounts).
Meanwhile, Ron Paul supporters should boycott Books-a-Million, just as the store is boycotting The Revolution.
I just got back from flying (ugh) today from NOLA to Boston via Houston.
I looked in three bookstores, all three having displays of NYT bestsellers, both fiction and non-fiction.
Nowhere was Ron Paul's book to be found.
Asking store clerks revealed nothing other than blank stares.
I just came out of a Books-a-Million store where, under "New Books on Politics" there was no sign of Ron Paul's The Revolution: A Manifesto. I asked one of the clerks about it and she said it wasn't even in the store's computer system as a book they've ever carried. I informed her that it was #7 on the NY Times bestseller list last week, and will be #1 this week.
She was apparently upset over this news, and quickly grabbed a copy of the NY Times bestseller list from last Sunday that was near the cash register. She looked at me in a very self-satisfied way and said, "No it's not. It's not on here." After I suggested that she look at the #7 ranking the smirk disappeared from her mug. So that the customers behind me would hear it, I rather loudly recommended to her that if the store's management was interested in making money they might consider the strategy carrying a few copies of the NY Times #1 national bestseller.
Ain't the free-market great! Idiots like the managers of Books-a-Million who substitute their own personal preferences for their fiduciary duty to make money for the corporations' owners will be quickly "punished" with lower profits and maybe even bankruptcy. That won't be good for their careers (and bank accounts).
Meanwhile, Ron Paul supporters should boycott Books-a-Million, just as the store is boycotting The Revolution.
I just got back from flying (ugh) today from NOLA to Boston via Houston.
I looked in three bookstores, all three having displays of NYT bestsellers, both fiction and non-fiction.
Nowhere was Ron Paul's book to be found.
Asking store clerks revealed nothing other than blank stares.