Comment by setr

I now go out of my way to do so, in most shopping. I figure if their marketing team is tasteless, there's not much hope for the rest of the business's operations. (In the sense that bad marketing implies bad product; good marketing can go either way)

I mean just compare SICP and TAOCP covers to.. head first *; the latter look like self-help trash in b&n.

Now O'Reilly, they've got covers you can really believe in