Costco had 8 books by conservatives

[KT2000]

Today I counted 8 books by conservative authors - mainly FOX idiots. There were none by liberal authors.
This is another example of the saturation by conservatives. Maybe their brainwashing of their viewers is so successful that people are driven to purchase their books.

Are liberal authors just not writing anything or are there deals to keep these conservative books flowing through Costco?
The conservatives are prolific writers and they have their own publishers but why are they immediately given so many platforms to sell?

[pnwmom]

1. That's weird, since Costco is more of a blue company. I wonder if the purchasing options are set

locally, or centrally?

[KT2000]

4. blue company - my thought too -

maybe it is the consumer base here - well-off retired.

[Hekate]

5. The magazine Costco Connection had an article a year or two back about their book buyers....

All I remember is their book selection division seems to be a couple of cheerful women with an eye for best sellers. I've also noticed the stacks of books by conservatives, some of them really obnoxious. As far as I can tell, the selection is national, except for local authors and local topics.

For those who are truly interested in the subject, I'd recommend contacting Costco directly, and simply asking if the imbalance is as real as it seems to be, and if so, why. They are a progressively run company, and seem to be responsive to what their customers want. If those books were not selling at all, they would not carry them -- but I would still want a more balance selection.

[barbtries]

13. i think this is the thing to do.

complain. the next time i'm there i'll take a look and send an email to them.

[dreamnightwind]

14. +1

Good idea, let's all ask them!

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[daleanime]

2. Print runs.....

have to be dumped someplace. I'm sure the mark down was pretty steep.

[ProfessorGAC]

19. Exactly What I Was Thinking!

Those books don't actually get read. Just bought.

[Erose999]

29. ^^^^^THIS. You also see them on the cheap tables at Barnes and Noble and in book clubs at deep

discounts. They print a ton of that shit and then sell it super cheap so it'll get on the bestseller list and get the supposed credibility that goes with it. The costs of publishing that stuff is just a write-off for the big right wing think tanks and superPACS.

[edbermac]

3. Don't worry about it.

Next month they'll all be gathering dust at Buck-A-Book.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

6. Costco only cares about volume

This shit sells,

[betterdemsonly]

7. They own the media. That is one of the negative effects of corporate monopoly.

They also game the best seller list by bulk buying books for conservative book clubs, than the stores stock books considered best sellers. It is wingnut welfare.

[KT2000]

8. Ok - that makes sense

the books are probably not even read then.

[betterdemsonly]

9. 95% of dollartree dollar store books bin

are books the conservative book clubs couldn't sell.

[Warpy]

10. I notice the piles stay tall

which means they don't sell and are remaindered out the next month. Costco likely has to take them in order to get good deals on the best sellers.

[1939]

11. Costco is a "green" as in dollars company

Anytime they can get something cheap, they go for it. If a vendor wants a higher price later, Costco just discontinues it until the vendor caves. I always see people looking at books in Costco, but rarely see someone buying them.

[Warpy]

25. You'd see me buying them

although I do buy even more on the Kindle these days. Still, there's nothing as comfortable as curling up with a friendly book, a real one.

Like most other people who shop there, I give the big stacks of right wing hate a miss.

[1939]

30. I buy a lot of books

but not from Costco or BJ's.

[penndragon69]

12. and don't forget

Conservatives shop there too, but only when mo one is looking !

[Warren DeMontague]

15. Just because they're a progressive company, doesn't mean they need to be in the business of deciding

what their customers read.

In fact, I would argue that it's a progressive value to not pick and choose what reading material they offer for sale, based upon how simpatico the views expressed, are.

If you go in there and there's a fat pile of Ann Coulter books, unbought, that alone should tell you something.

Also, TBH, I remember by about year 6 of the last Bush administration, we were pretty inundated with liberal reading material- it seemed like every other week someone like James Carville or David Brock or Jim Hightower or the dearly missed late Molly Ivins or someone along those lines, had a new book out on "how we can take our country back". Well, now we're in year 6 of Obama. Not too surprisingly, I think it is the people currently out of power at any given moment, who tend to be motivated to write-- and buy- that sort of thing.

Last but not least, probably more liberals have figured out how to use the internet and kindles. I suspect the market for actual paper books, particularly the expensive hardcover releases that fill up those Costco tables, skews older and more conservative anyway.

[Lurker Deluxe]

16. Well ...

I can think of at least 4 that should be there ... no matter what you think of the author.

Killing Patton, 41, American Sniper, Rush Revere .. all four of them are currently on the NYT top five best seller list in their respective categories. I would think that Costco most likely has the majority of the NYT best sellers in the store.

I need some things at Costco .. I will stop and take a look see myself.

Doubt I will count authors in a "who is conservative" mind set though. But I might buy a book if it looks like a good read.

[Lochloosa]

20. How to buy your way onto the New York Bestsellars List

#9: People Can Buy Their Way on to the NYT List
If you can get on with as little as 3,000 copies sold and you place a big order with a wholesale bookseller the week your book comes out, you have a pretty good shot of making the list. There are brokers who will arrange the whole thing for you starting at around $40,000. It’s out-of-reach for most first-time authors unless you’re a billionaire who wants to buy the title for himself, or a media baron who wants to make his girlfriend feel good about her cat book. Gross, but true.

This racket has been run a long time by the conservative authors.

http://heather-maclean.com/how-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-works/

[Exilednight]

22. This is why, like so many things, NYT needs to fix

Their system.

[Lurker Deluxe]

24. So ...

How they got on there vs who got them on there. They are on there.

I can not see how you can say a book that is on the NYT Best Sellers list is somehow a surprise to see in a store.

American Sniper has been on the list for 84 weeks ...

I bet these same titles are on display at the bookstore in the mall.

[winter is coming]

17. Were they stocked next to the fireplace logs?

Couldn't have been next to the toilet paper, because those books were already... saturated.

[kelliekat44]

18. You say 8 books on the shelves. Not in the carts at the registers. nt

[dembotoz]

21. Simple answer.. Because they sell? I somehow always seem to manage to put a different book on top

Guess I do not pay attention...

Besides I do not want billos face to ruin my appetite for the samples

[LunaSea]

23. Grab a stack!

Park them next to the cheap toilet paper.

[MFM008]

26. my mom

said the same thing when she went last week.

[mmonk]

27. I will be writing soon.

I have been held back through personal circumstances but hope to be on Amazon by Christmas.

[Vinca]

28. There are usually more conservative books than that at the dollar store.