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Terrorist-related
items hard to track
By Kimberly Pasquis
On-line Forty-Niner
After the mourning
and healing processes of Sept. 11 had eased, the general public
started to become educated on subjects like terrorism and
Islam, terms that were not part of many peoples' regular vocabulary
until recently.
Barnes and Noble
Booksellers sold out of the Koran and saw a large increase
in sales of bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America
by Yossef Bodansky, according to Marty Beck, department manager
for the bookstore's Cerritos location. Bodansky's book was
released before the attacks but later saw a boost in sales.
"The Cerritos Library
came in and bought a copy yesterday because they couldn't
hold on to one," Beck said.
Borders Books Music
and Café in Cerritos experienced a similar demand from
customers.
"There was a tremendous
demand for the Sept. 12 edition of the New York Times," said
Matt Selznick, merchandising, multimedia and inventory manager.
"There were about 20 to 30 people waiting in line for it that
morning. It was reprinted a week later."
Selznick also said
that there was trouble for the publisher to keep up with demand
for Nostradamus after an email circulated claiming Nostradamus
predicted calamitous events would occur on Sept. 11.
Mainstream bookstores
are not the only ones having to keep up with the public's
interest of recent events. According to a recent Associated
Press article, textbook publishers experienced a delay in
publication by trying to include the Sept. 11 events in history
textbooks. The books were supposed to go to print in early
September but were rewritten to devote pages on the attacks
and the aftermath.
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