...continued:
This tour has taken me to Ridgewood, New Jersey (area that always returns
its Republican congressman), Arlington, Virginia (a town filled with
military people), Grass Valley, California (in the middle of nowhere in a
congressional district represented by a right-wing Republican). In each of
these towns it's been a literal mob scene.
The Virginia bookstore says that "this crowd is an all-time record." The
line is out the door in downtown Ridgewood, and the store does not have
enough books. In Grass Valley, so many have come from hundreds of miles
across the Sierras that can't get in, so I tell the hundreds out in the
street that I'll stick around and do a second show. Three hours later they
are still there, and I do it all over again.
I want to thank all of you who have written. I read your emails at night
and I am so sorry I don't have the energy to respond. Hundreds of you have
written to say that your bookstore does not have the book.
The main reason that is happening is that the publisher has not printed
enough books and cannot ship them fast enough when they do. Often, it is
because the bookstore did not order enough copies. A few stores, and one
chain in particular, have not been exactly overjoyed to be carrying the
book. On the other hand, Barnes & Noble have put it on their bestseller
list and are offering it at 1/3 the price.
Every single independent bookstore I have stopped into has been out of
books and they tell me that both the publisher and the distributors are not
sending them books. I do not know what to do about this. I have made my
calls. I am told everything is OK. I can see first-hand on the road that it
is not OK, and that many stores simply do not have the book.
You can help me by letting HarperCollins know when you cannot find the
book. Write them at ...
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HCAgain, my sincerest appreciation to all of you and I look forward to
seeing many of you on the rest of this tour.
On Thursday I'll be in L.A., Friday in San Diego, Saturday in Denver and
Boulder, and next week it's on to Michigan and the Midwest. More cities are
being added, so check in at my website,
http://www.michaelmoore.com/>www.michaelmoore.com.
Off to shadow the Cheney shadow government,
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