Guest guest Posted July 21, 1998 Report Share Posted July 21, 1998 >Hi Wally > >Apparently when the boys first went out to Nam the White >House was deluges with supportive mail. had a graph >plotter copy his signature and thousands of: " Many thanks >for your patriotic support " letters went out. alas, >inevitably a bereaved mother or widow wrote one day, and >got a " many thanks for your patriotic support " letter >signed by President Lyndon . > >you basically got the converse Wally. > >obviously the groupers were mail bombing amazon and they >set up a form letter - and sent you one as well. > >P. > >On Sun, 19 Jul 1998 08:34:00 -0400 " Wally T. " > wrote: > >> And now for something completely different.... If you tuned in late, the >> story was that 3 weeks ago books critical of AA suddenly vanished from the >> amazon.com bestseller lists. I sent them the query below and within 48 hours >> the lists were fixed and all the good stuff was back where it belonged. NOW >> I get THIS answer. What's going on here? Anybody got a clue? >> >> (sent 6/29) >> Dear 'Health-Mind-Body' Editor, >> >> I was just browsing through the best-seller lists of the various >> sub-categories under 'recovery' and I was amazed to find that, with only one >> exception, all books critical of, or offering alternatives to, Alcoholics >> Anonymous and other 12-Step organizations have mysteriously vanished from >> the lists sometime during the past month. For example, Jack Trimpey's book >> on Rational Recovery was (if I recall correctly) at #1 in the Substance >> Abuse category quite recently and right up there near the top on another >> list. Now it is nowhere to be found. Other omissions include Audrey >> Kishline's 'Moderation Management', Bufe's 'AA - Cult or Cure', Ken >> Ragge's 'The Real AA', and Herbert Fingarette's 'Heavy Drinking.' >> >> I would hate to think that Amazon.com is deliberately rigging the lists to >> keep these admittedly controversial works out of sight, but other >> explanations (coincidence?) don't seem sufficient. In the past year I have >> been a very satisfied customer of Amazon (probably $200 in total orders) and >> I have recommended your service to quite a few avid readers. That can't >> continue unless my confidence in the honesty of your book-lists is restored. >> >> Sincerely, >> Walter G. Trice >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> (received 7/18) >> Dear Mr. Trice, >> The recovery and other booklists that you refer to are based on >> customers' actual purchases, so we're not " rigging " them to be critical >> of AA. I know plenty of people who would probably be dead right now >> without AA, and we're certainly not trying to exclude it or any other >> 12-step program from our lists. There has been a preponderance of >> anti-12-step-program books out there lately, including " How AA Failed >> Me, " which is due out in August. These books manage to get plenty of >> publicity, they sell well, and therefore they're appearing on our lists. >> These books are also popular with book clubs, support groups, etc., and >> we therefore get bulk orders for them. >> Thanks for writing. >> Yours truly, >> a nsen >> Health, Mind & Body editor >> ericaj@... >> >> Pete ---------------------- Cool Briton My Vesta dents your Porsche PERSONALITY-DISORDERS LIST: http://rdz.acor.org/athenaeum/lists.phtml?personality-disorders _____________________ ---- Read this list on the Web at http://www.FindMail.com/list/12-step-free/ To unsubscribe, email to 12-step-free-unsubscribe@... To subscribe, email to 12-step-free-subscribe@... -- Start a FREE E-Mail List at http://makelist.com ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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