Jewish World Review May 19, 2003 / 17 Iyar, 5763

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Wal-Mart to offer more books that few people read

http://www.jewishworldreview.com | Wal-Mart announced today that it will offer more books and recordings that most people don't want. The move comes in response to an article in The New York Times which said that the nation's biggest retailer sells too many conservative and faith-oriented books and videos effectively homogenizing the culture.

"We have no right to force our customers to buy millions of copies of Bernard Goldberg, Ann Coulter, Michael Savage, the Left Behind series, the Bible and Veggie Tales videos," said an unnamed Wal-Mart spokesman. "It's our obligation to occupy shelf space with things that our customers don't want to buy."

Editors at The New York Times said they still may exclude Wal-Mart sales figures when compiling the NYT best-seller list.

"If you look at Wal-Mart sales," said an unnamed editor, "You would think that America was made up of generally-conservative people who have faith in G-d. Here in New York we know that's not true. The best-seller list should reflect the real American culture as we know it."



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