Online Bookstore Charged With Nazi Tactics

[mcscajun]

Its motto is: Abunga.com - Empowering Decency as your Family Friendly Bookstore

What they're about is online book-burning. They solicit their customers to tell them which books NOT to carry.

Marketing Expert Says Strategy -- and Free Publicity -- Is Effective

Using a clever strategy that has pit Christian readers against anti-censorship intellectuals, a new online bookstore has impressed some marketing experts with its enlightened approach.

Abunga.com -- a kind of Facebook meets prayer book -- touts itself as a "family friendly" Web site that allows its buyers to ban saucy books from their accounts. What's more, if enough customers block a certain book, the company removes it from the site altogether.

Just this month, the Knoxville, Tenn., site banned "The Golden Compass," a children's fantasy novel that has been targeted by religious groups as being anti-Christian since the release of the film version of the book in December.

The site launched in the fall and initially blocked 65,000 titles; since then, another 100 to 200 books have been dropped.

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[DireStrike]

1. Lol what a great concept for a community

I'm sure it will last very long and be extremely vibrant. :sarcasm:

[Xipe Totec]

2. Tell them to burn "My Pet Struggle" n/t

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

3. Stupids get stupider

n/t

[Hugabear]

4. Every one of us should join that site - and then ban the BIBLE

Think it would work?

[mcscajun]

6. Ha!

Probably would, but we're not about site disruption. We leave that to the knuckle-draggers over at those Other Sites...some of which cannot be named. :D

[Ian David]

7. I was thinking along those same lines. Which TRANSLATION of "The" Bible you have in mind? n/t

[Hugabear]

8. King James?

There's plenty of translations to choose from, but KJV seems to be the "standard" - at least it was when I was younger, and going to church.

[Ian David]

10. No, you have to target one of the less-popular translations.

Turn the tyranny of the majority against the minority.

The lesson they need to learn is NOT that some disruptors can come in and screw with them.

The lesson they need to learn is that they cannot agree among themselves, and that freedom of religion means freedom of ALL religion.

You want to start an internal civil war, not galvanize them against outsiders.

[hobbit709]

5. So their customers ban books they have no intention of reading in the first place?

Let them. They're a private business and have as much right to do so to themselves as I have the right to not carry anything I don't want in my business. All they are doing is narrowing their own market until they have nothing left to sell.

[formercia]

9. Great business plan

limit your products to those that few ever buy and market them to a niche customer base. Brilliant.

Oh, and compete with Wally World for the market segment.

[tanyev]

11. Let's all sign up and block Tim LaHaye's books.

[Hugabear]

12. Now THAT is a plan I can live with

Good call.