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On
a mission to show that Palin's book is selling much worse than, say,
the idea of reading Osama Bin Laden his Miranda rights, the San
Francisco Chronicle interviewed several local booksellers to find out
how well sales of "Going Rogue" were not going:
"Our customers are thinking
people," said Nathan Embretson, a bookseller at Pendragon Books in
Oakland. "They're not into reading drivel."
"Anything like that we wouldn't carry," said clerk Emily Stackhouse at
Cover to Cover Books in San Francisco. "We're a small store and it
would probably gross us all out. Some things you carry because of
freedom of speech, but a book like that is just gross."
Apparently the job of a "bookseller" in and around San
Francisco is not so much to sell product, but rather to give comfort to
like-minded individuals and convert the remaining unwashed masses to
lockstep ideology. Politics trumps profit, even though profit generates
the much needed tax revenue, job growth, and consumer spending this
state dearly needs.
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