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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cthulhu's Librarian" data-source="post: 1955450" data-attributes="member: 11064">Actually, that's not true. If you talk to almost any bookseller (chain or independant) who knows the numbers of stock loss to theft in their store, they will tell you that the most shoplifted book is the Bible. I kid you not. I worked in several bookstores for years during and after college, and my wife worked in a store for the past 5 years, and it held true across all of our experiences. It was a discussion that was had at many company meetings, and was a very difficult thing to try to counter, because it is not kids who are stealing the bibles. It's been discussed in Publishers weekly and other places as well, I'm not just basing this on my own experiences. Yes, but they also position the occult section and the sexuality section so they can be watched as well. Those are just sections that many teens are likely to head for in a bookstore. At the stores that I worked in that carried RPGs (not all did), the section was setup so that it was visible by the staff at all times, because we had books stolen from it. We also had books stolen from every other section of the stores, but RPGs tended to be hardcovers costing $20+ while most other theft was paperbacks that could easily be slipped into a pocket. It was usually a matter of the value of the theft vs. the amount of theft that occured that decided which sections were watched most.</blockquote>