| Not long ago, I was traveling in my MotorCoach and I | | | | Why were they throwing away the written word by |
| parked along the side of a Big Box Bookstore, three | | | | the truck loads? It turns out that the Book Store |
| doors down was a used bookstore. I needed a | | | | was throwing away popular magazines that were |
| space big enough so that I would not be blocking the | | | | one-month old. The used book store was making |
| hectic middle class fiasco or end up with shopping | | | | space and throwing away books, most all of them |
| cart therapy. Luckily, I found the side free from | | | | were old diet type books, old small business books |
| traffic, abundant parking and a nice view of valley | | | | [how to make million doing this, that or the other |
| below. | | | | thing], and spiritual self-help books. The largest |
| Then the most interesting thing happened. An | | | | category were self-help books of a spiritual |
| employee from the Big Box Store book store came | | | | enlightenment nature. |
| out and started dumping magazines in the dumpster, | | | | If these books are not selling even as used books |
| literally a whole bin full. About an hour later the used | | | | one has to ask why? Well, the answer is that they |
| book store owner, manager or employee came out | | | | are pretty much all the same, as they claim to have |
| and dumped books into the dumpster. I was sitting | | | | the secrets to spirituality, and will make you one with |
| there on the computer writing a few articles using | | | | the universe. Unfortunately, they do not work and |
| the Big Box bookstore WiFi system from my | | | | leave their readers underwhelmed and with more |
| MotorCoach. | | | | answers than they had before they bought them. |
| After I completed, my curiosity got the best of me. | | | | |