Re: Borders up for sale?

In the Year of the Earth Rat, the Great and Powerful Gene Ward Smith 
declared:
>  
> 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?

I'm curious why any bookstore would feel the need to not carry a 
book for any reason other than "it doesn't sell," let alone have to 
proclaim it with a sign. The bookstore exists to sell me what I want 
to read, not to dictate what I should read.

-- 
Sean O'Hara <http://diogenes-sinope.blogspot.com>
Curtis Mooney: Killer clowns, from outer space. Ho-ly ****!
    -Killer Klowns from Outer Space