I just called Borders and told them I was offended by the Ann Coulter book

being smack in my face when I walked into the store tonight. I went there to find "The Case for Impeachment", which I bought after having to see the MAN book display in front and in the politics section.. I talked to the clerk and the store manager and they both said that their corporate office dictates what goes on display and they want all there stores to be the same.

I live in Madison WI where hundreds of people are repelled by her, but the store cannot even make a decision not to put the book on display. I called their corporate customer store and told them that if they want customers to turn around and walk right back out without shopping, they're doing it just right.

The title of her book and the comments about the 911 widows make any book of hers too filthy for land fill. They should be burned.

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

.....can't condone book burning.....it's what Hitler did. It's what Bush cabal would love to do with 'liberal literature'.....
Nope, book burning is bad, no matter how repulsive the content.

I think this would be more like garbage burning, actually.

by giving the book an extra promotion and prominent display.

We have every right to tell booksellers that we will shop elsewhere if they are going to stick really offensive, divisive books right in our faces. There's no reason why they can't simply stock the book in the politics section normally. That accords Mann her free speech rights, avoids giving her unfair promotion, and avoids offending people.

TELL THEM YOU WON'T SHOP THERE.

You can get most anything you want (and cheaper) online- rather than in some chain store.

last I knew.

Amazon=Red
Powells=Blue

I get all my books from B&N online. If you pay $25 a year, you get a 10% discount on all purchases. That saves me a few bucks, you can be sure.

Umm, hate to break to everyone, but my local B&N has a BIG, SPECIAL display of Coulter's book--right inside the door. The book has its own rack, even. I almost didn't buy the gift certificate I had come for. I oppose censorship and book banning--Coulter has the right to spew--err--speak. However, do we need to FEATURE her in every store?? How about putting her back with all the other political books?

:puke:

it is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, one of the bluest cities in the U.S. And not just because of U-M's school colors.

:)

But then again, Ann Coulter's book is even a bigger insult to humanity.

Without outrage, her book will be forgotten as fast as she is.

that godless woman lives in a world of hurt, and her only satisfaction is to
see that we care enough to discuss her...

Drop her, don't discuss her, be ambivalent, and don't give her the madonna bounce
of a niche group outrage.. on DU for peets sake, for all the threads, as if
any one of us cared whether that woman lives or died. She looks dead to me,
for all the pictures of her head in that gold frame, with the godless heartless
soulless meme.

The clerks were kind of embarrassed that they had to do it. Its just stupid not to let book selection be tailored to the market that the store is in.

A store in East Madison should have a full table of "The Case for Impeachment" when you walk in the door, not a book of Ann Coulter's. That's just good marketing.

She failed in marketing totally.

It looks like she is godless, and all it does is promote this
devil woman. "i wouldn't touch her with a nine and half foot pole."
The feral look in her eyes is downright spooky, really. She is
a posterchild for the neocon collapse. Why fight it?

and put it on top of hers. I love doing that, altho I feel a little guilty for the employee that has to straighten it out. But then I think, maybe I made someone smile.

it is they who want censorship and book burnings - stop imitating them please.

slap some pre-stamped post-it notes (with the word "LIAR") smack dab on the front covers of those fascist screeds...

such as oreilly etc and quietly mark a swastika on the inside front page - this is mostly at 2nd hand shops, since i already boycott the corporate pigs.... it's also fun in coffeeshops to neatly put a swastika on the forehead of rw mediawhore columnists in their customer tabloid newspapers; if done right, the goof looks like s/he really has it tattooed onto hisher head, ala the manson psychos....klol

when they see oreilly (or say limbah-humbug, brite hum, big russ's disgraceful spawn tim, annhole coulter, 5-in-the-noggin gibson, woofy blitzer etc) they might assume there's something there that's not there, so a lil swastika on the frontpiece (or drawn into a mediawhore columnist's foreskinhead lol) clarifies that the reader is in for a nasty trip to hell with no redeeming value received in exchange for the pittance they spent. i'm sure the yahoos would thank me for making clear the depravity of the marked individuals, which would also assist the really crude freeper types to purchase the mindless crap they might otherwise miss (being semi illiterate boors)....

The only person that it harms is the shop owner. If the shoe was on the other foot (freepers vandalizing books) I bet you would see it as wrong.

whilst i always try to think positive.. :)

in our cities and protest that they are displaying Coulter. Or call, after pretending to have purchased the book, and tell them that you want to return it on priniciple, with a full refund, in protest of her inflammatory remarks.

and I expected to see the other right wing crap when I was looking for the book I wanted. Somehow hers just seems like a kick in the face because she is such a nasty hateful person.

I do think we should give feedback to bookstores - they should be able to have some say in what they display. If its controlled by right wingers I don't want to shop there, I'll find somewhere else.

that they didn't like that were on display, upside down, or reshelved them in an obscure out of the way location, where most would not look!

:rofl: Dare you!

for the poor college kid working there for minimum wage.

I'd rather go to the top to make my stink... but to each his own.

for the college kid working at the bookstore, if you reshelve a book...

it ensures they'll have a steady job.

The nice thing about Ann Coulter is that her message is so repulsive, that the more mainstream attention she gets, the more people she turns off. Even that knucklehead Matt Lauer is starting to realize what a misanthropic freak she is.

Am sure there are a few in Madison.

And then tell Borders - in person to manager and also in writing to home office - you have made the move -- and why.

of its sales figures would rate.

if its a best seller, put it with the best sellers, if its a flop, put it with the flops.

if it came out heavily promoted it should be with similar titles. let it fail on its content, not by being hidden away.

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:D

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=5256491&mesg_id=5257549

everytime progressives hold a protest, the anarchists seem to show up to threaten to raise hell and provoke the police etc - why aren't they running amok at borders? (or barnes and noble etc?)...someone should inform them about the bottleblond freak and her doorstopper....
here's border customer care email...let's bug them....
https://www.bordersstores.com/care/care.jsp?page=7

Coulter just ridiculous. There are lots better things to get indignant about than boring old ann. Personally, I refuse to shop at those big box "bookstores". They're not the real thing. Support Indy bookshops, and turn your back on corporate creeps like Borders and Barnes and Noble.

DO NOT carry Palast or the mags I buy...

My little independent, used book store will order anything I ask for. She's true blue, by the way.

My daughter works at a Borders and I noticed the placement right away.

I told them that IMHO, book stores should be non-partisan and their overly conspicuous display of this vile hate-mongering drivel disgusts me to the point where I am considering never shopping there again. I also told them that in a post 9/11 world, we should not be bearing false witness against the victim's families.

look the companies pay for this kind of placement, I ain't kidding you. They can pay all the money in the world, if yuo and I buy books that are guerrilla marketed, everybody wins...well except Annie and her publisher that is

you told their corporate offices that "customers would turn around and walk right back out without shopping"...........after you yourself shopped and made a purchase there?

:think:

If I hadn't been so offended I might have browsed the store for another hour and spent much more.

If you see those cardboard stands that have 12 or so cubicles to hold books, they're called dumps, and publishers pay to have them put in stores. If Annhole's publisher paid for the placement, they'd be in breach of contract not to put them in the front. Still, you did the absolutely right thing to complain. I don't suppose they HAVE to take the publisher's $$$ to display something that'll cause customers to walk out.

I was born and raised there. I still work there, although I live outside of the City.

Nice to see a fellow DU'er sharing the same topsoil. :) :hi:

:hi:

but I'm not for burning them, no matter what she has to say. If hers were burned, how long would it be before others went up in flames? Burning books is usually associated with goose-stepping and chanting swastikas.