Re: Borders up for sale?

On 2008-03-20 15:54:05 -0700, Gene Ward Smith <gene@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:

> Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <taustinca@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
> news:Xns9A679D6FA6A73taustingmail@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
>>> Yes.  I've been in independent bookstores that harangued me
>>> about how evil Bush was from the end of every bookshelf, and
>>> that carried only literary fiction and even had a clerk that
>>> informed me of this when I (foolishly) asked if the store had a
>>> mystery or sf section.
>>> 
>> They go against the wall first, when the revolution comes.
>> 
> 
> The Other Change of Hobbit in Berkeley screwed me over in a different
way.
> They had a sign up with a big explanation for why they didn't, for
social-
> poltical reasons, carry Gor books. This, of course, obligated me to read
> the first Gor book, which turned out to be crap on cardboard. Why
couldn't
> they have not carried Gor because it was crap?

Did they have a policy against crap?

Coulda saved a lot of shelf space that way, but it'd probably have cost 
them a lot more money than not carry in the Gor books because the bulk 
of their customer base would disapprove of the content.

kdb