Bookstores have Noticed Atheists
Minnesota Atheists notes a new policy at Borders Books — they've put up a small display section dedicated to books about atheism.
If you've ever been frustrated in a search for books on nonbelief in your local bookstore or annoyed by their inclusion in the comparative religion section, Borders Books has remedied the situation. "Atheism and Agnosticism" has been added as a new section for the works of Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and many others. We hope other bookstores will follow this example, and encourage our members to suggest they do.
A reader actually sent me a photo of this miracle.
Of course, compare the size of that to the "New Age," or "Religion" section of your typical bookstore, and you can see we've got a ways to go yet. I'm going to have to insist that everyone go out and buy these books. After you've finished reading them, I expect you to write a book of your own, so we can fill up a wide rack of our own.
If you have doubts that you can write a book... have you read any of the books in the New Age or Self-Help or Pop Psych or Religion sections? Lobotomized monkeys could do better.
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If you've ever been frustrated in a search for books on nonbelief in your local bookstore or annoyed by their inclusion in the comparative religion section, Borders Books has remedied the situation. "Atheism and Agnosticism" has been added as a new section for the works of Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and many others. We hope other bookstores will follow this example, and encourage our members to suggest they do.
A reader actually sent me a photo of this miracle.
Of course, compare the size of that to the "New Age," or "Religion" section of your typical bookstore, and you can see we've got a ways to go yet. I'm going to have to insist that everyone go out and buy these books. After you've finished reading them, I expect you to write a book of your own, so we can fill up a wide rack of our own.
If you have doubts that you can write a book... have you read any of the books in the New Age or Self-Help or Pop Psych or Religion sections? Lobotomized monkeys could do better.
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Comments
Hahaha, labotamized monkeys, good one.
I've worked retail in a couple of nationwide chain stores (not any bookstores, so I may be talking out my a** here.)
I saw this story on another blog and it had photos of the Borders display. It's what is called an end cap; the displays at the end of store aisles.
End caps tend to be promotional and/or seasonal items and rotate on a regular basis, so it's not at all clear that the display is a permanent or even a long term one.
But I digess.
Publishers have simply recognized a niche market that they can derive some more bucks from...not the demand that we go out and "buy all the books".
In fact, the post is probably a publisher plant.
They do that, you know.
The post is clearly linked to Myers' site. See the word LINK at the end of the post?
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