Fast-Food Bookselling

Very quickly (and no cool photos to attach):

Sitting in the Minneapolis/St. Paul airport on a three hour layover...

There's a bookstore in the airport called "Simply Books." Easy enough to figure out.

But rather than have sections labeled "Fiction" or "Novels," they have a section labeled "Famous Authors" that is next to the section labeled "Classics." I kid you not. Apparently, "famous authors" includes those like James Patterson.

This is the dumbing-down of bookselling for those who only read on flights. Alternatively, it may be the fourth sign of the apocalypse. Not sure which yet.

--Greg