Sarah Palin's Going Rogue going great guns at the tills

The Guardian by Alison Flood | Nov. 23, 2009 (Other)

Former vice-presidential candidate?s memoir racks up 300,000 sales on its first day in shops Sarah Palin's memoir, Going Rogue, has become one of the bestselling non-fiction books in history after it sold 300,000 copies in its first day on sale. Palin's publisher HarperCollins told American press that Going Rogue has proved so popular it has been forced to print an extra 300,000 books after an initial print run of 1.5m, with about 300,000 sold on 17 ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Nov 23, 2009 - 6:20 AM PST
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Edited by: Dwight Rousu - Nov 23, 2009 - 1:41 PM PST

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Glenn LaBauve
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 by Glenn LaBauve - Nov. 24, 2009

The reporter missed where the majority of sales have been in bulk sales and even deeper discounts than he cites. Not only is it being given away by every right wing group but Palin herself is giving it away. The latest price I saw was $4.97 with no strings attatched, not exactly what a bookseller does with "a valuable best seller".

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Dwight Rousu
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 by Dwight Rousu - Nov. 23, 2009

The story includes no information on tricks used to boost sales numbers. First day huge orders are often used to boost first day sales, in order to get a propaganda book onto the best sellers list, so then real suckers will buy it.

Some of the reviewers suggest her nut-cake ramblings should be classified as fiction.

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