Bay Area not maverick enough to read Palin book

For those who still believe money trumps being partisan in all cases...

If anyone thinks that these bookstore owners aren't lying through their liberal teeth, you'd need to look no further than the fact that the publisher just had to ADD ANOTHER MILLION COPIES...

"Going Rogue" is going big

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I assume if someone in the bay area wants it it can be found. Maybe check walden books or one ofd the big book stores. Which I am sure is not the book stores in the story. So I am sure its in any of the box book stores in the bay area. But the story wouldn't have been as good if the writer actually went to one. huh?
And on top of that its pretty obvious the bay area is far more maverick then most the country. Just not as judgemental as other mavericks.

Maybe its just the FAG bookstores? Oh...wait, what am I saying that would COVER the Bay Area wouldn't it now??

Is it true that IF the HEALTH CARE bill passes, Harry (slimer) Reid, told Barney Frank he could head the PROSTATE EXAM DIVISION???
bartender...bartender...play that SODOMY song..

If there's no market for it, then why stock it...


What the heck are you talking about?

The article clearly states: Some bookstores figure it's one of those grit-your-teeth First Amendment deals that principled booksellers must put up with from time to time.
But many nonchain bookstores won't handle it.

If you google these two stores mentioned in the quoted article, they are mom and pop stores. The first sells USED and new books.
The second is just a few yards wide.
I wouldn't go to either of these stores for any recent best seller I was actually interested in.


Meh.
I think one of the best comments I heard on the book was: "Millions of copies will be sold of a book written by someone who can't write, intended for an audience that doesn't read, about the thoughts of a person who doesn't think."

The book is riddled with inaccuracies. Palin trying to take liberties with history for her own edification.

I would be curious as to how many Wrinklers own a copy / have read it...


Exactly my take on the matter.
I would be curious as to how many of these bookstores had most of the NYT best selling books.

One sells new and used books, and the other fits into a shop that is only a few yards wide.

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I'm in Mikeyy's and foundit66's boat. When I read

I thought "Well duh".... Especially in the Bay Area.

Typical journalistic non-story that is simply meant as slop for the consumption of readers of the SF Chronicle.

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Just an old sweet song keeps Georgia on my mind

If you want a REAL criticism of the article, THAT was it right there.



One "gem" of the article was this one...

The large chains have got modest supplies of the book and, so far, the sales have been equally modest. At Borders bookstore in San Francisco Centre, a Chronicle reporter stood watch over two small stacks of the Palin book near the front doors. In a 25-minute period, only one person bought a copy. He turned out to be a visitor from out of state.

TWENTY-FIVE MINUTES is what you try to base an article observation off of?

So basically, the author tries to derive significance off of the lack of this book in Mom and Pop bookstores, and instead of figuring out the TOTAL sales THROUGHOUT the Bay Area, this writer schmuck wastes somebody's lunch time telling some guy (probably an intern) to hang out at a book-store to see if anybody buys the book...

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Republicans have a sweet racket because they run on "government is ineffective," and then when they **** things up, they go, "See." – Bill Maher

"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint.
When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a Communist."
--Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara

You did mean maverick in a 'Brokeback Mountain' kind of way, right ?

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OMG! Maverick means gay now?? Brett ain't gonna like that!

I feel another episode of cultural whiplash coming on!

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Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900)
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Just an old sweet song keeps Georgia on my mind

I believe fudge-packers no longer have a problem with slurs at all as long as it's an accurate description of what's going on.

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Dudes ... you're just NOT THAT MUCH ****ING SMARTER than all of us. GET OVER YOURSELVES!
-- Me, to President Obama and the rest of his self-loving amateur staff.

I would recognize the error of your assessment before you proceed much further with such claims...
http://www.politicalwrinkles.com/pol...tml#post102514

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Republicans have a sweet racket because they run on "government is ineffective," and then when they **** things up, they go, "See." – Bill Maher

"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint.
When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a Communist."
--Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara