Strange idea... some bookshops may distribute other peoples' ideas but none of them do so for everything... try looking at German laws relating to political material and many other countries on Holocaust denial together with countries' that ban huge amounts of Western books.
Then there are the specialist shops... I worked at and ran a specialist SF&F shop for a number of years where we'd never stock such items (except some of Rand's fiction) because our customers wouldn't buy it... would you have forced us to stock other material because we shouldn't judge it as unsuitable for our shop.
Actually, the "very job" of a bookseller, is to make a profit and stay in business... how it does that, is pretty much their own concern as long as they abide by the laws of the land. If customers don't like their business model then they have the usual option...
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Originally Posted by CommonReader
And there I was thinking that the distribution of other peoples' ideas were the very job of a bookseller. Whether I prefer to read Marx or Ayn Rand, St. Augustine or Dawkins, a collection of sermons or something sexually tintillating - I expect the bookseller to get me the book, instead of judging the book unasked for on my behalf.
I also wasn't aware of the fact that this book installed itself in a clandestine way like a rootkit on Peoples' kindles, popping up unasked when the owner wants to access a book of devout prayer.
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