Barnes & Nobel vs Amazon

[CrispyQ]

Because I know many of you prefer to support a blue company (me too!) I've asked again if DU would consider a home page link to the 100% blue B&N vs. the pink (41%) Amazon.

However, I will continue to use the home page link that benefits DU for the book club titles.

[wryter2000]

1. Thank you!

I've asked more than once that we switch to B&N.

I would use an affiliate button if we were linked to Barnes and Noble. I'm a member there and get a discount if I buy from B&N. I'm not buying anything from Amazon, I don't care who's linked to it.

[LeftNYC]

2. Why not Powell's or The Strand too? nt

[wryter2000]

11. Okay

I don't know that much about them. I do know that for $25 a year, I get 5% off internet orders and 10% off bookstore purchases at B&N.

[Richardo]

12. Hey, your internet orders are now discounted 10% too.

I insisted on that just for my friend wryter2000. :)

[wryter2000]

13. Awww...

You're always thinking of me. :yourock:

[matt819]

3. Until B&N apologizes, they've lost me as a customer

After that revolting incident in Delaware, I wrote to BN to tell them that they've lost a customer. I know they're a blue company, and that makes the incident all the more disgusting. When they apologize publicly, and when the Delaware state trooper and BN managers are reprimanded publicly, I'm not buying at BN. My little protest. It won't make a bit of difference in the long run, but it's what I'm doing to protest the treatment of people exercising their first amendment rights.

[Richardo]

4. I'm curious. What happened?

[matt819]

7. Background

Briefly -- At a book signing for Rick Santorum in Delaware, a few young women attended with the goal of questioning Santorum's views on a variety of issues. They were perhaps, shall we say, contemptuous of the good senator. In any case, an off duty Delaware state trooper, in uniform and working security at the event, tosses the women out and threatened them with jail, their parents with contributing to the delinquency of a minor, etc. The story's a lot longer than that - just Google it and I'm sure you can find the details. I don't know if the store management was responsible for the trooper's behavior, but they didn't put a stop to it, either. Maybe I'm being overly sensitive, but I think it was disgusting and, in a nutshell, represents all that is wrong with the right wing and this country today. Quashing dissent. Threatening the opposition. Intimidation. Fear. You get the idea.

[Richardo]

10. If they were disrupting the event then don't look for mgmt to jump in

It's private property, and the book-signings are money makers for the store.

Silent protest is one thing, but disrupting the event is something else.

Look at it this way: all those rightwingnuts coming into a 100% blue store to leave their money, some of which may very well end up in the campaign coffers of someone like Bob Casey who may defeat Santorum.

I respect your position, but I don't think this was the right venue for a confrontation. Throwing out disruptors <> 'quashing dissent'.

[Kire]

15. "store management was not consulted"

The trooper acted on his own.

At Barnes & Noble’s headquarters, Mary Ellen Keating, senior vice president for corporate communications and public affairs, gave this account.

“I spoke to the assistant manager, and what she told me was that the store management was not consulted on how the situation was managed,” she says. “A state policeman, without consulting management, removed these students from the store.”

More: http://progressive.org/?q=mag_mc081905

I used to work for the web site, BN.com. I know Mary Ellen Keating. Not personally, but I've always felt she has done her job honrably. She is okay in my book. How could she apologize if it was beyond store management's control?

[Richardo]

5. Thanks, CQG!

:thumbsup: :hi:

[barbaraann]

6. B&N is advertising on rushlimbaugh.com

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/today.guest.html

[Richardo]

8. Great! Right wingers spending money on a blue company

Delicious!

[pstans]

9. B&N must want to up the sales of coloring books

by advertising on Rush Limbaugh.

[salamander8]

14. B&N vs. Amazon

Amazon has a better selection. But they are both mega corporations. Is there that much difference? Both have my new book Memoirs Of A Drugged-up, Sex-crazed Yippie. At Amazon it’s: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1420821067/qid=1109800493/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/102-1323095-4639363?v=glance&s=books&n=507846