Yesterday, Intended M and I are at Barnes and Noble checking out travel books for an upcoming trip. I was having a pretty depressed day and feeling like life was unfair--yeah, boo-hoo, life is fair compared to what? Anyway...back to this post. Intended M thought "I'm gonna go see what type of adoption books they have", couldn't find them in self-help, asked an employee (or probably team-member as they're corporate overlords like them to call themselves!), and was told they were in the Family-Health section. (I think it was family health...something like that.) So we go over there...me reluctantly since I was just not in the mood for this sort of thing yesterday...and they have (1) a totally weak selection of literally about a dozen books and (2) they are right next to all the "What to expect when you're expecting"-books and the "How to be a super breast-feeder"-books (are there such books?) and (3) there was a woman in that section sitting on a chair breastfeeding her baby with her doting husband attending to her and (4) it was right next to the Children's book section. Really?!?!
Now, I don't expect people to be completely sensitive and I suppose in some book publisher sense it is totally normal to put adoption books along side these others, that is, I'm sure at some big publishing house, the publishing-arm that publishes pregnancy books also publishes adoption books. But Barnes and Noble is trying to SELL books. There is a different calculation involved--location, location, location! I doubt the male impotency books are right next to the "how to look good naked"-books for young hot women!
Needless to say, we didn't look through their crappy selection of adoption books. I was thinking about why their selection was so crappy and figured it was probably because they don't sell many adoption books. I wonder why? :) I also thought about telling them...or emailing them...or whatever...but then I figured...who cares?
Anyway, I just thought it was interesting.
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