Sales Brisk at Shadow Convention
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Meanwhile, Skylight Books, Los Angeles, and Midnight Express, Santa Monica,
Calif., who were jointly selling books at the Shadow Convention to the
Democratic National Convention this week, are happy to report they survived
the protests and the overwhelming presence of the LAPD.
Kerry Slattery, general manager of Skylight, told PW Daily that she sold 10
copies of Naomi Klein's No Logo (Picador, $20) as well as handfuls of Gore
Vidal and Jonathan Kozol. The Cornell West Reader (Perseus, $35) proved
popular, as did Economic Apartheid in America: A Primer on Economic
Inequality and Security by Chuck Collins (New Press, $16.95) and Rabbi
Michael Lerner's Spirit Matters ($22.95), a book about melding personal
politics and spirituality.
Oddly, the most popular book of the Shadow Convention was rather
apolitical: Ram Dass's Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing and Dying
(Riverhead, $22.22).
"It's not exactly what you'd expect to sell well at a political
convention," Slattery said. "But he proved very popular. We sold 60
autographed copies."
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