Just read it all the way through.. I heard enough of this enough today to write him a letter personally. This is one of the biggest pet peeves I have as a bookseller and have gone through this too many times when we're out of something or it comes off the bestseller list.

Congrats on your book ( Read more... )

I had to deal with a customer tonight as we were closing while I was doing some work in the magazine section ( Read more... )

Janitor reprimanded for reading "offensive book"

According to the above article, the janitor, Keith John Sampson, who is also a student at Purdue University, was reading Notre Dame vs. the Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Ku Klux Klan . For those of you who are curious, this is the book. A co-worker, based on the cover alone, was offended ( Read more... )

In my second week of working as a seasonal worker for a bookstore, this guy comes up and asks me if we have any magazines in Spanish. Keep in mind I'm clearly in the stationary/novelties section (and have only been trained in that section...I'm just using my own, UNtrained knowledge the rest of the time ( Read more... )

got linked to this through another community:

One step closer to having religion in the fiction section of the bookstore.

your thoughts?

"Hi, I was wondering if you might be interested in purchasing some Christian books? They're all hardbacks... and in very good condition?"

*clears throat to offer up rejection speech*

And also some adult magazines?"

Awesome.

Yesterday I had my first real experience with Ignorant Fools and The Golden Compass. A man came in, and asked if he could return a copy his son had bought for his sister for Christmas. Here's the catch... Dad wasn't upset, they had gone to church, where the PASTOR had preached at them that the book is EVIL and, you had better not read this filth ( Read more... )

This one is mostly for the Canadians in the group ( Read more... )

... And no, it's not about the dollar.

However, is anyone else amused by the fact that if you make a stack of the Chretien book, it leans significantly to the right?

I had a minor giggle fit upon noticing this for the first time.

So I had a elderly woman come up to my till this afternoon asking for a particular book in our religion section, after looking on the computer to see if we had any instock I took her to the section where his book had received 2 facings and was exactly where it was suposed to be in the N section of Chritianity. It's a book where the author's face ( Read more... )