-- from the word "Barricade".
But she admitted that Barricade Books is relishing its apparent monopoly on books about Ms. Smith.
Adelson charged that Smith; his publisher, Barricade Books; and Lyle Stuart, the owner of Barricade, had libelled him in a couple of pages in the book.
"Naked Came the Stranger," which remains in print, has sold about 400,000 copies, according to its current publisher, Barricade Books, which rereleased it in 2004.
Even Wal-Mart has ordered a shipment, a first for Barricade Books, a small publisher that specializes in nonfiction on gangsters, gamblers and celebrities.
Mr. Wynn won the libel case against Mr. Stuart's company, Barricade Books, in August, then got a court order freezing the inventory, putting Mr. Stuart out of business.
He said Barricade Books, based in Fort Lee, N.J., had recently started publishing an Al Qaeda training manual, but had turned the project over to Paladin Press, a small publisher in Boulder, Colo., that often produces unorthodox how-to books.
"Since I am paid to argue, why give it away for nothing?" In his witty memoir, "Reflections in a Mirror: Of Love, Loss, Death and Divorce" (Barricade Books, $24.95), Mr. Felder channels Neil Simon, recalling a childhood in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, (and visiting his grandparents in Brighton Beach).
The shooting happened about 12 30 a.m., with the sound of about half a dozen gunshots sending hundreds of students who had been up all night studying for exams scrambling for cover in the book aisles and barricading themselves in with desks amid screams from classmates.
It's inevitable: the books-to-the-barricades defenders of ideas printed on dead trees will lose all that they love to the soulless digital monolith on Lake Union, with its 164 million customers.
