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Alpharetta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-15-04 08:57 AM
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Is Harper Collins squashing Seymour Hersh's book about Abu Ghraib?
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Edited on Wed Sep-15-04 09:16 AM by Alpharetta
HarperCollins, publisher of Hersh's book, is a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, which also owns FOX News Channel.

I found the following at this weblog called www.NewsHounds.us

Seymour Hersh's New Book? You Won't Find It at Borders!

This morning at 10:30 AM Pacific Time (1:30 PM Eastern Time) I went to my local Borders store to pre-order a copy of Seymour Hersh's new book "Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib". The book, promoted by Mr. Hersh on this morning's "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, has a publication date of Monday, September 13th. The clerk at Borders was shocked to discover that her store had ZERO coming in and ZERO on order.

She quickly checked the five other Bay Area stores and discovered the same thing. ....

A call placed to the Barnes & Noble store at Fisherman's Wharf ...

Quick calls to several local independently owned booksellers in San Francisco and Marin County revealed ...

Phone calls to Borders stores in Phoenix AZ, Boulder CO and Washington D.C. (18th & "L") confirmed ...

Several of the clerks informed me that the trouble with distribution lay, not with Borders, but with the publishing house, HarperCollins. One young man suggested that perhaps the books weren't ready yet. I told him that I used to work in the publishing business and no author would be scheduled on a national TV show to promote a book unless there were copies available. In the event there were production problems and the interview couldn't be postponed, the publishing house would have insisted that the new publication date be announced.

...(more at LINK)

False alarm, it appears.
Edited to add following explanation from Borders: See post #6 in this thread
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