Organizing the Book Store

I remember at an early age being at The Book Expo America with my dad, who is a book publisher. He had a meeting with the buyer for Barnes and Noble over how to organize the new age section of the book store. The buyer was going around, meeting with various publishers and trying to find the ‘best’ way to organize that section. For the buyer, best probably meant most sales while for my dad, best probably meant the most sales of his books. Naturally then, there were some points of conflict. Queer theory never came up though if I had to guess I’d say that similar issues probably apply to bookstores as well, the difference being that there is now a strong for profit motive. So, in an ideal world how do we go about organizing the book store? What factors to we consider? Which do we negate? How do we find a balance between the book sellers, publishers, political correctness and any other factors that are in play?