Dr.Arlette Miller Smith
St. Johns Fisher College
I asked my friend Dan who is a Barnes and Noble college division manager to find out what he could about this horrible, slanderous attack attributed to B&N Booksellers. Turns out the incident took place in Florida at a store where they believe a customer replaced a book jacket in the Obama display with the incendiary image that is being circulated. Below is the statement from B& N corporate that was sent to its affiliates:
Barnes & Noble would like to publicly apologize for what happened in our Coral Gables, Florida store. We believe that a customer played a cruel joke and placed an inappropriate title in the front window of our store, where we were featuring books written by or about President Obama. We want to assure our customers that the book placed by someone other than our booksellers was never intended to be included in our display and was removed as soon as we became aware of the situation. We are looking into it and are taking the steps necessary so that it does not happen again. From time to time customers will move titles from one area of the store to another. In this particular case, we do not condone whatever message may have been intended with the placement of this title in our Presidential display. It certainly was not part of our merchandising and we regret that we didn’t see the placement of this title immediately. Mary Ellen Keating, Spokesperson Barnes & Noble, Inc.
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Posted By: Esther Pinkston
Saturday, February 28th 2009 at 11:06PM
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