I believe a lot of the problems with what books are given more prominent placement is tied to the management of that individual store.
I got so fed up with it at the Borders in Greensboro,NC. that I would go to the current events shelf in the back of the store and carry copies of conservative authors,UN corruption, Pro-Military yada,yada,yada…up to the front and place them there myself.
I have shopped at this store for years and always got great service when ordering or looking for books and CD’s so I did not complain.
Then I ended up going to B&N because of their discount card that
saved me a pretty good sum of money.
About 6-8 months later I went back
to Borders for a hard to find CD and
when I went in,there was an even display of liberal and conservative
literature displayed front and center.They even quit displaying those obnoxious “Bush Bashing”
calenders at the registers.I bought
the CD and asked to talk to the Manager to compliment them on their
equality and found out quickly that
they were under new management.
The B&N also was equal in their
representation of liberal and conservative literature.This is where I bought Liberal Facism.
Now I am not discounting the fact that so few copies are ordered,and customers hide books(I brought books up front,but I never hid or covered
others up),and there are way to many
instances of conservative literature being “Black listed”. I simply feel
that the majority of staffs in these
book stores are probably liberal and
take the “Hollywood”route of suppressing free speech any chance they get.