This Ought To Help Barnes and Noble’s Business
Amazon may seem like an unstoppable juggernaut, and many partisans for their rival, the (comparatively) scrappy Barnes and Noble have no doubt despaired of late, given Amazon’s willingness to forgo profits in order to deny them to others. But the latest action by a merry band called “Morality in Media” should give them a leg up. This group has declared Barnes and Noble, along with American Library Association, to be “facilitators of porn”. Presumably, this should provide Barnes and Noble (along with libraries, I suppose) with throngs of new customers.
By the way, I would like to point out that, rather than that image of B&N, I could have used an image that neatly encapsulated both librarians and porn, which would have no doubt driven some nice traffic my way, but I held off. This is a classy blog.
Ha! You should have gone for the porn.
Seriously, though, I am both shocked at what *isn’t* classified as porn and the peolpe that complain about it. Ya just can’t please everybody. But maybe B&N can change their name to S&M (what does that stand for?) and enjoy some profits.
See, I try to keep things classy, and I get cheap jokes about my fake initials. I don’t know why I even bother.
Oops! I complete forgot about your initials, I meant “sadomasochism”, as in kinky porn. I guess. I don’t know what I meant. Anyway…what does S.M. stand for?
Well, I know you were talking about sadomasochism, I just found it a bit telling that you did it here. In answer to your question, they are genre-dependent initials. For horror, they stand for Stanislov Mordecai, but for my upcoming Edwardian clockpunk romance novel, they stand for Stacia Meredith, because no one wants to read a lusty tale of bodice ripping and shiny brass gears by someone named Stanislov Mordecai.
Now, I’m off to B&N for a book signing by S.M. Stirling. Perhaps afterward we’ll commiserate over G&Ts about misunderstandings involving out initials.
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