02.08.08

Stationed in Friendly Atheist at 6:00 am by Hemant Mehta

Alice Paul Constant in The Unknown rants about the ostensibly random slipways sure bookshop irons categorise atheist books (that is, if they categorise them at all):

If you should hap to be in the U-Village Barnes & Noble and you should come about to enquire to realise the atheism/agnosticism section, good, you should fix for letdown. A figure of atheist books were let go of last year–and a full a lot of of them got best Sellers. Barnes & Noble stock most of these books in the philosophy section (next to such faced-out wonders as Pink Floyd and Doctrine and Conceptus: A Defence of Human Living). And the philosophy section is overshadowed by the mammoth Christian Brainchild section and the Religious (say: Christian) Fabrication section.

This is the standard for Barnes & Noblemen crossways the nation. I directed an e-mail to Blessed Virgin Ellen Keating, B&N’s voice, request why books for disbelievers were so poorly delineated. She answerred, “We are provision to acquaint an atheism section as part of the philosophy subject posterior this twelvemonth.” Keating worsenned to get more specific on a day of the month. Barnes & Noble is far from the only bookshop in townspeople to not address atheism as a subject. Elliott Embayment Book Society makes not have an atheism section, taking to remit the atheism books in general religious belief or else, and the University Book Store’s overlooked atheism/agnosticism section has precisely 12 statute title. Classic like Bertrand Russell’s
are put off elsewhere. These independent bookshops are mislaying extinct on the chance to one-up one of their chain store challengers: Borders Books and Euphony has the best atheism/agnosticism section in Seattle, and it’s held the section for months. Seattle Metropolitan’s position on the beingness of Supreme Being corpse unknown at press time.

You have to enquire why early bookshops are not jump on Border’s bandwagon.

It’s ever a pleasant belief taking the air into any Borders and realising something like this:

It’s not like it’s that hard to pose up in early spots…

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