wordy1 writes “This Tampa Tribune story reports the nuisances that both local Tampa and nationwide booksellers have to contend with during the political season. With several political bestsellers on the market, customers not only complain about having too many or too little books that represent their political persuasion; but they’ve also been known to hide books, turn their back covers forward, and leave notes near books that espouse views with which they don’t agree.
While some booksellers admit to displaying/carrying books that support a certain political slant, others try to remain neutral. One of Tampa’s independent bookstores, Inkwood Books, while some argue they offer more liberal-leaning reads, has aimed to bridge the partisan gap by running an Open Mind Sale, where if customers buy a book that leans Democratic or Republican, they get half off a book that slants the other way.
Anyway, I thought even though this article is about retail books, it probably offered some parallels and things to mull over in the library world.”
Absurd!
I don’t move whole stacks of books to the cookbook section. I simply move a copy of Unfit for Command by John O’Neill onto the top of the liberal books. The liberals are afraid to touch it to move it.
It’s not me anyway, no matter what Carla at Inkwood Books says.
It’s not just political books I cover up the Da Vinci Code too.
Noticing the slant
I think it was at Border’s. I was on my way to the foreign language section and stopped to browse the current events. I saw no pro-Bush books at all, only the anti-Bush-books. Now, that could mean they are selling better and they can’t keep them on the shelves, but on the other hand. . .
Counterpoint Pathfinder?
On the library side, the obvious things to do include
Of course, working in an engineering library means not having to worry about political issues at all. 😉