Will Palin's "Going Rogue: An American Life" top the NYT Best Seller List before 2010?

The All-American, Family Values, Republican Christmas present! That should put her on the charts...

DD will probably buy the first run himself. :-p

Hmm, if by "top the list" you mean reach the #1 position, I'm not so sure. Certainly it will get into the top ten, probably top 5. Decisions, decisions.

Yes, the #1 position is what I'm looking for.

Yes, "top" usually means first, otherwise it wouldn't be on "top."

Palin's "Going Rogue" Already a Bestseller
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/09/30/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5354122.shtml
Sarah Palin's forthcoming memoir, "Going Rogue," has reached the top spot on the Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com sales rankings - more than a month and a half before it will hit bookshelves on November 17th.

The ranking is based on preorders of the book by the former Republican presidential candidate and Alaska governor who resigned in July, before the end of her gubernatorial term.
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frogchop - only if she signs it, and adds a scantily dressed picture. :O)

hm

Sarah Palin: A Conservative, a Lady, a Leader
http://www.cblpi.org/resources/article.cfm?ID=201

why didn't she make it on the Great American Conservative Women calendar?
http://www.cblpi.org/calendar/
http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/entertainment/2009/09/28/conservative-calendar

but instead, they take Carrie Prejean, the controversially dethroned Miss California, to be one of the top women leaders in the Conservative Movement....

hmm.

as being typical for fundamental conservatives, it's a balancing act.
women being leaders?
and fulfilling conservative ideals at the same time?
being mom, housewife and making career?
often, apparently, something mutually exclusive.

(does not apply to US conservatives only)

Wow, that's interesting. I hadn't noticed that she didn't make the calendar. I wonder if that was because she wasn't invited or that she didn't accept? (I'm going to lean toward the latter here).

Blast from the past: Hillary Clinton Book Breaks Sales Record
http://english.people.com.cn/200306/11/eng20030611_117991.shtml
United States former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's memoir about her eight years of White House life sold more copies in its first day of release than any other nonfiction book in Barnes & Noble's history, the company said. United States former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's memoir about her eight years of White House life sold more copies in its first day of release than any other nonfiction book in Barnes & Noble's history, the company said.

"More than 40,000 books were sold in 24 hours; it's a tremendous amount of books," said Carolyn Brown, director of communications at Barnes & Noble, the world's largest book seller.
"More than 40,000 books were sold in 24 hours; it's a tremendous amount of books," said Carolyn Brown, director of communications at Barnes & Noble, the world's largest book seller.
"We expected Living History to be the best-selling biography of the summer and think the momentum will continue through the fall," Brown said.
Early Tuesday afternoon, the book Living History was in first place on Barnes & Noble's Top 100 online sales.
In the tell-all book, Senator Hillary Clinton talked about such painful and controversial topics as her failed effort to reform health care, her husband Bill Clinton's affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky and his impeachment.
Publisher Simon & Schuster ordered 1 million copies for its first printing, an unusually high number for a work of political nonfiction. The publisher has agreed to pay 8 million US dollars for the book.
After seeing the turnout on Monday, the publisher decided to print another 50,000 copies, spokeswoman Victoria Meyer said.
As part of a heavy media blitz to promote the book, Clinton has granted some high-profile television interviews.

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Hillary Clinton denied that she has the ambition to run for US president. “I have no intention of running for president,” Hillary Clinton said in an interview with Time magazine in which excerpts from the book were published Monday.
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even Rice was once in it:
"Back-to-school September features the country's most powerful black woman, Oprah! Kidding. It's Condi."
http://dir.salon.com/story/mwt/feature/2004/12/22/calendar_girls/index.html

here's what the huffington post made out of it:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/28/help-make-a-liberal-women_n_301885.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/30/liberal-women-calendar-vo_n_304201.html

hmmm! I guess we shouldn't buy her book since she wasn't on the calendar, the fraud.

Anyidea how many sales it would take to get to no. 1? I'd say that one in 4 to 1 in 3 adult Palin supports would get a copy.

"Anyidea how many sales it would take to get to no. 1?"

exactly the number of sales for #2, plus 1.

;-P

@#14 I think that would be the formula for how many sales it would take to place it in the #2 position...

I believe her book would have to sell 1 more than the number of sales for the current #1 :-)

In any event, Palin at No. 1 spells the death of literature. why doesnt this woman just start breeding so the rest of us can get on with the job?

I know she has kids already but seriously; a book? please. She's a joke trying to become a novelty...

Hey Bucko, are you having a nice conversation with yourself? Here, let me help you out. Why would "Palin at No. 1 spells the death of literature?" I'm sure you have some intelligent reasons for saying that.

Drz - my comment that "Palin at No. 1 spells the death of literature?" is predictive.

I havnt read it. Maybe it will rival the Grapes of Wrath. Perhaps it will be something on par with 1984. Care to wager? But my comment regards more than whether the book is good or bad. I dont mind a bad book getting no sales any more than I mind a bad movie getting bad sales.

But thats not what we're talking about.

Lets assume that its a pile of s***. If that were the case then its status as a number 1 best seller would have to be attributed to pre-sale hype as opposed to the content. Which situation can be compared to Hollywood films where movies tend to acheive "no. one status" due to the trailer as opposed to its content. Success through advertising as opposed to success through merit. Y'know, like how Transformers was up there for a while.

Have you seen Transformers Drz?

Mindless marketing has hammered good film making. Being John Malkovich was turned down as a script for around a decade because producers doubted that it would make enough money. It was always a good script waiting to become a good movie.

If Palins book is bad (leaving open the option that it will recieve critical acclaim - post some of those review for me if you happen to find any) gets to no. 1, it will speak volmes about how the public is spending its time reading books based on hype and sensationalism as opposed to intrinsic value. A typically (though not exclusively) American process.

Which would be fine if we lived forever and could read all the books we wanted, which, of course, we cant.

Have you read "living history"?
How about "My life", both volumes?
Maybe "Giving"? Do any of them compare to "Grapes of Wrath" or "1984"? Why do you arbitrarily focus on this book as having to be like either of them on a literary level?

If you don't like the book then don't buy it. That is what is so great about choice. Not everybody has to like the same books!

NN - "Not everybody has to like the same books"

Agreed.

Which is not the same as saying that if I publish a book that repeats the word 'fart' for 400 pages there is no good reason for saying that classic and modern pieces of literature acknowledged by critics, and which are self evidently great, are better than it (notwithstanding that some people might really like my 'fart' book).

If youd like to categorise concepts such as lucid prose, inventive narrative structure, and the ability to artfully and skillfully present aspects of the human condition through a combination of words as 'arbitrary' be my guest. When you get down to it I suppose almost everything (philosophically)can be categorised as 'arbitrary'.

None of which focuses on my original criticism. Im talking about the world of literature (which takes a person to write AND a person to read). In my opinion when books outsell all other books on the market (again my original crticisim is based on Palins book reaching number 1) solely due to hype and marketing then we have a problem in that world.

If you think that the production of Palins (no doubt ghost written) book is anything other than a graceless money spinner you really cant see the wood for the trees.

The critics didnt exactly applaud Clintons 'Living History'. Im not defending the commercial success of that book either.

Why make this a Rep v Dem issue? I think Kruis has primed you to see all debates along those lines.

ohww I just can't wait I've read them all !!!1!!1!!one!!!1!

this http://www.amazon.com/Jordan/dp/1846055059/
and this http://www.amazon.com/Being-Jordan/dp/1844541320/
and this http://www.amazon.com/Jordan-Whole-World/dp/1846050367/
and I will read this one too!!!!1!one!!!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/6260479/Bookshops-will-not-stock-Jordans-latest-book.html

"I think Kruis [sic] has primed you to see all debates along those lines."

hehehe

:-P

Glad to see my little market has got y'all riled up, feel like I'm in a pub,which in a way is kind of how this site got conceptualized in the first place.

It'll be tough, since labor unions won't be buying them by the carload as they do for Democrat authors, but I actually think it'll hit #1 fairly quickly. That's where I'm putting my money anyway.

Sarah Palin makes at least $1.25 million in book deal
http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/books/view/20091027sarah_palin_makes_at_least_125_million_in_book_deal/srvc=home&position=recentANCHORAGE, Alaska — Former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin reported Tuesday that she has received at least $1.25 million for her hugely anticipated upcoming book "Going Rogue."

A disclosure statement released Tuesday discusses Palin’s finances from Jan. 1 to July 27, when she resigned as Alaska governor. Palin says she received $1.25 million from publisher HarperCollins for the book.

The document only provides a partial picture of the book deal because it doesn’t cover the three months she has been out of office. Palin doesn’t elaborate on her book compensation, describing the $1.25 million figure only as a "retainer."

It’s likely she will be make more money when it’s all said and done. "Going Rogue" catapulted to No. 1 on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com after HarperCollins announced in late September it had moved up the release date of 1.5 million copies.

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Hmmmm. #1? Can it be either in the fiction or non-fiction category?

Hmmmm. #1? Can it be either in the fiction or non-fiction category?

Hmmmm. #1? Can it be either in the fiction or non-fiction category?