Bookstore Employees LIE About UNFIT FOR COMMAND in Nashville

Nashville TN Davis-Kidd Bookstore (Green Hills) | 8-19-04 | self

[tdadams]

How's this for a representative sample of how the DUers feel about it:

"I am totally against burning books... including "Unfit". However, burning down right-wing publishing houses, like Regnery, is something I might contemplate... if I found myself in the neighborhood with a torch in my pocket.

[wardaddy]

indeed, the future will be bleak both at home and abroad.

keep yer powder dry as they say.

[wardaddy]

the unwashed left does not want a real fight with us...if they do then they need to look around at who's more "serious".

[Katya]

I went to a borders in Maryland yesterday and had no problem finding it. It was on the front table of new releases....looked like the stacks were getting low though.

[Fedora]

My copy arrived today from Amazon.

[isthisnickcool]

So, many in the media have likely read this book (other than Chris Matthews who admitted tonight he has not read it) because they can get copies sooner? The book really has not "hit the street" yet? As we know now because the book is in short supply.

If there is this much noise before the book is available Kerry is in some very serious doo-doo. And that's a good thing.

[JENINMO]

Here's my confirmation from AMAZON

Order number: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Shipping Method: Standard Shipping (3-5 business days)

Shipping Preference: Group my items into as few shipments as possible

Shipping To

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Shipping estimate for these items:

August 23, 2004

Delivery estimate:August 25, 2004 - August 27, 2004

1 "Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry" John E. O'Neill;Hardcover; $19.01

[missnry]

Just got off the phone from my Borders store here in the St. Louis metro area...
Lisa said the book was not in stock because there was such a high demand for it. She offered to order it for me. I asked her how long it would take and she said it could be a week or 14 days because of the demand....

I saw John O'Neill on PBS tonight and he made me want to get a copy of that book... bad, real bad!

[onyx]

Look here.
Similar experience by FReeper abner.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1195120/posts

[Knute]

I wondered how long it would be before somebody took it personally.....Hyperbolic generalization is used to make a point. Lighten up and think of how all the poor McDonald's employees feel. Demeaning their jobs is almost a national passtime.

I choose to not demean the current wage paying occupation of any member of the workforce. You or I are no better or no worse than the lowest or the highest in our cultural caste system!
Hey, we are both on the same side of the overall point of this thread. Conflict mode is hereby (OFF) at this end

[mconley22]

I had a similar experience at a Borders' a few days ago. I live in a very conservative town, only a few blocks from Congressman Dan Burton's office. So I thought that the Greenwood, Indiana, Borders' would have the book.

After looking through the new arrivals, I went to the information desk and asked if they had Unfit for Command. The person behind the desk asked for the author's name (I doubt that I was the first to ask the question). She looked the title up on a terminal and told me that the store had five copies ordered but it would probably be at least two weeks before they arrived.

I found the book a couple of days later in a Waldenbooks store in the local mall. If the book is difficult to find in one of the most conservative areas in the country, imagine what a rare find it must be in the blue states.

[weegee]

John Kerry is engaging in the ugliest form of censorship. I wonder if Unfit To Command will make it on September's "Banned Books" display at bookstores and libraries...

[Ditter]

Yesterday & again today we went to Barnes & Nobel in Houston & were told the book was "in transit". Tonight my husband badgered them a little & said he would just have to get it from Amazon. Its already ordered from Amazon, he just wanted to harassas them a little.

[Darksheare]

The jerks.
And I didn't see any way to contact them anywhere on the pages I perused for contact info.

[xlib]

Censorship is: -When bookstore employees/owners deliberately hide a book from the public, because they don't agree with it. Who the hell do they think they are?

They are independent businesspeople, and/or their employees, who have every right to do so.

Censorship ONLY occurs when the GOVERNMENT suppresses expression.

[Blue Highway]

ping

[Ladysmith]

Pretty strange, isn't it? His wife asked for two to be reserved, he's told they have none, and then their site pops up stating one is left.

I called Sam's Club and Wal-Mart, figuring they should have it if anyone is going to. They tend to load up on hot-selling books right away. They each said they didn't see any in stock. I'm going to check it out tomorrow along with Borders and ask what's going on if I don't see them.

[Ditter]

B&N in Houston had the God & W book out on the table with all the anti-Bush books.

[Kaslin]

I ordered my copy today from Amazon. Shipping estimate August 23, 2004. Delivery estimate August 26-August 30, 2004

[Nov3]

This is why Amazon is booming. I had a similar experience at the Davis Kidd on Perkins Rd. here in Memphis. I was at the info desk asking about my reserve copy and the bimbo in the information Kiosk told me they didn't have it in stock. Funny considering I was told it was there earlier in the day. Standing three feet from her I looked down at a display in front of the kiosk and there were some books placed backward - rear cover out. Need I say what they were!