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AP source: Palin book sells big in first week

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That's a helluva start for a woman that is claimed to be "irrelevant" and a "Train wreck" by those on the left.

AP source: Palin book sells big in first week
By HILLEL ITALIE (AP) – 1 hour ago

NEW YORK — Sarah Palin appears well on her way to becoming a million-selling author.

"Going Rogue" sold 700,000 copies — a number that includes pre-orders — in its first week of release, according to a publishing official close to the former Alaska governor. The official was not authorized to release the sales figure and asked not to be identified.

The Associated Press: AP source: Palin book sells big in first week
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Thousands show up at Ft Bragg.


Palin Draws Thousands to Book Signing at Fort Bragg - FOXNews.com


Sarah Palin drew a crowd of over 4,000 on Monday to her book signing at Fort Bragg, though the former Alaska governor kept her appearance from turning into the kind of "political platform" that some military officials were concerned about.

Palin did not give a speech during her three-hour stop at the North Carolina Army base, apparently living up to her pledge to tone down the event after Fort Bragg officials expressed concern that the visit could prompt grandstanding against the Obama administration.

"It was just a peaceful crowd -- orderly, no one making any strange comments that I know of," a Fort Bragg official told FoxNews.com. The official said close to 4,500 people showed up, many braving the cold and rain as they waited for hours to meet the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee. The official said about 500 people had to be turned away when Palin had to leave.
 
As some one else pointed out in another of these threads...Dennis Rodman sold alot of books too.

By the way, why do you liberals start all these threads on Palin?
 
Redress said:
As some one else pointed out in another of these threads...Dennis Rodman sold alot of books too.

By the way, why do you liberals start all these threads on Palin?
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Liberals just go on and on bashing her with personal attacks and insults.
 
This doesn't seem to mean much, how many authors break a million and how fast?

I guess she would popular, but she isn't a JK Rowling, that's for sure.
 
Grim17 said:
Liberals just go on and on bashing her with personal attacks and insults.
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Yeah, we get it. You like Sarah Palin. It's also obvious by now that anything said that doesn't involve praise of the woman, you will take as a personal attack or insult. I know it's hard for you to get around using regurgitated talking points, but please try.
 
700,000 people out of 300,000,000 American citizens bought her book. 3,000,000 people voted for Ralph Nader in 2000. If Ralph Nader is still irrelevant what does that make Palin?
 
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Grim17 said:
That's a helluva start for a woman that is claimed to be "irrelevant" and a "Train wreck" by those on the left.
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LOL......train wrecks ALWAYS generate a lot of attention.

that said.....Grim.....you should work hard to make sure that Palin gets the GOP nomination in 2012. I'd be happy to help.
 
Hatuey said:
700,000 people out of 300,000,000 American citizens bought her book. 3,000,000 people voted for Ralph Nader in 2000. If Ralph Nader is still irrelevant what does that make Palin?
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Strawman argument as usual, 300,000,000 population; name a single author that sold a book to each citizen. I await your response. I have the book, the woman knows how to write. You're right DW, she's no JK Rowling who writes fiction. I'm sure the liberals will make sure it doesn't out sell the Communist Manifesto.
 
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American said:
Strawman argument as usual, 300,000,000 population; name a single author that sold a book to each citizen. I await your response.
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Your inability to understand what a strawman argument actually is astounds me. The OP asserted that 700,000 books supports the claim of relevancy of the author. What I've established is that in a country where there are 300,000,000 million citizens somebody selling 700,000 books means absolutely nothing in regards to relevancy. To support this I've brought up examples of people having what may seem like 'many' supporters but still being irrelevant in the long run. Would you like for me to explain what a strawman argument actually is or would you like to stick to one liners from now on so that I don't notice you enough to make you look silly?
 
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Grim17 said:
That's a helluva start for a woman that is claimed to be "irrelevant" and a "Train wreck" by those on the left.
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Ever see a traffic jam over a car accident? Welcome to Sarah Palin's book sales. I suspect that at least 100,000 copies were sold to different media outlets "researching" her claims. How many copies do you think CNN bought? They assigned 8 reporters, FULL TIME, to investigating her stories for factual errors.
 
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Hatuey said:
Your inability to understand what a strawman argument actually is astounds me. The OP asserted that 700,000 books supports the claim of relevancy of the author. What I've established is that in a country where there are 300,000,000 million citizens somebody selling 700,000 books means absolutely nothing in regards to relevancy. To support this I've brought up examples of people having what may seem like 'many' supporters but still being irrelevant in the long run. Would you like for me to explain what a strawman argument actually is or would you like to stick to one liners from now on so that I don't notice you enough to make you look silly?
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Strawman. 300,000,000 is merely the use of an unrealistic inflated number. That assumes that even infants could buy it, and a copy for each person in a family that might share a book. Totally ridiculous. Your point is irrelevant anyway, if it becomes a best seller it will be as relevant as any other best seller.
 
Catz Part Deux said:
I suspect that at least 100,000 copies were sold to different media outlets "researching" her claims. How many copies do you think CNN bought? They assigned 8 reporters, FULL TIME, to investigating her stories for factual errors.
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I'm sure that's it... The media buying them is responsible for all those books being sold... :rofl
 
Grim17 said:
I'm sure that's it... The media buying them is responsible for all those books being sold... :rofl
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Yeah, because that's totally what she said. :roll:
 
American said:
I have the book, the woman knows how to write.
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You're referring to Lynn Vincent, Palin's ghostwriter, correct?

Catz Part Deux said:
I suspect that at least 100,000 copies were sold to different media outlets "researching" her claims.
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The "success" of such books comes largely from the Conservative Book Club, Scaife-funded NewsMax, and other partisan organizations who buy in bulk and essentially give them away.

Conservative Authors Sue Publisher

Five authors have sued the parent company of Regnery Publishing, a Washington imprint of conservative books, charging that the company deprives its writers of royalties by selling their books at a steep discount to book clubs and other organizations owned by the same parent company.

In a suit filed in United States District Court in Washington yesterday, the authors Jerome R. Corsi, Bill Gertz, Lt. Col. Robert (Buzz) Patterson, Joel Mowbray and Richard Miniter state that Eagle Publishing, which owns Regnery, “orchestrates and participates in a fraudulent, deceptively concealed and self-dealing scheme to divert book sales away from retail outlets and to wholly owned subsidiary organizations within the Eagle conglomerate.”

Traditionally, authors receive a 15 percent royalty based on the cover price of a hardcover title after they have sold enough copies to cover the cost of the advance they receive upon signing a contract with a publisher. (Authors whose books are sold at steep discounts or to companies that handle remaindered copies receive lower royalties.)

In Regnery’s case, according to the lawsuit, the publisher sells books to sister companies, including the Conservative Book Club, which then sells the books to members at discounted prices, “at, below or only marginally above its own cost of publication.”

The authors also say in the lawsuit that Regnery donates books to nonprofit groups affiliated with Eagle Publishing and gives the books as incentives to subscribers to newsletters published by Eagle.

The authors argue that because at least a quarter and as much as half of their book sales are diverted to nonretail channels, sales figures of their books on Nielsen BookScan, which tracks about 70 percent of retail sales but does not reflect sales through book clubs and other outlets used by Eagle, are artificially low.
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It is rather funny how both sides of the political aisle are using her book sales as a measuring scale as to how great or horrid she is. Honestly, who really cares how many books she sells? If you don't like her politics, you don't like her politics..if you do, you do. Book sales don't really mean anything other than the fact that she is a polarizing figure and is still in the spotlight, which means that many people from all walks of life will be interested in reading her book. She holds the interest of both sides for very different reasons.
 
Forget book sales. How about how she polls higher than Obama now? That is what should concern liberals, especially since, in the end, she won't be the Republican candidate anyway.
 
Erod said:
Forget book sales. How about how she polls higher than Obama now? That is what should concern liberals, especially since, in the end, she won't be the Republican candidate anyway.
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Well, that's really Obama's doing and based on his performance thus far as President. If Obama wants higher polling numbers he needs to start living up to the many grandiose campaign promises that he made.
 
You know it's hackery gone wild when Glenda shows up. So lots of people have ghostwriters, that in no way proves they were literary lemmings to the ghostwriter. Anyone who isn't a professional author and is a celebrity, and decides to go it alone is a fool. I don't suppose Glenda would like to acknowledge Hillary and Bill Clinton's use of ghostwriters?

Under Cover - Forbes.com
 
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American said:
You know it's hackery gone wild when Glenda shows up. So lots of people have ghostwriters, that in no way proves they were literary lemmings to the ghostwriter. Anyone who isn't a professional author and is a celebrity, and decides to go it alone is a fool. I don't suppose Glenda would like to acknowledge Hillary and Bill Clinton's use of ghostwriters?

Under Cover - Forbes.com
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Of course many people use ghost writers. It's not a big deal. However, I can certainly understand her comment considering that you said that Palin herself was a good writer. Does that mean Palin is stupid or incapable of writing? No, it doesn't.
 
Dr_Patrick said:
Of course many people use ghost writers. It's not a big deal. However, I can certainly understand her comment considering that you said that Palin herself was a good writer. Does that mean Palin is stupid or incapable of writing? No, it doesn't.
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Have you or are you reading the book?
 
Hatuey said:
Your inability to understand what a strawman argument actually is astounds me. The OP asserted that 700,000 books supports the claim of relevancy of the author. What I've established is that in a country where there are 300,000,000 million citizens somebody selling 700,000 books means absolutely nothing in regards to relevancy. To support this I've brought up examples of people having what may seem like 'many' supporters but still being irrelevant in the long run. Would you like for me to explain what a strawman argument actually is or would you like to stick to one liners from now on so that I don't notice you enough to make you look silly?
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That's a completely false assertion. 700k books in the first week is a phenomenal number but it still isn't reflective of just how many people actually support her politically. If you want to address her political relevancy with any honesty, it would be much more constructive to address how many of the 300,000,000 citizens are of voting age, are actually registered to vote, claim support for her.

Nader was never irrelevant. Nader may not have had a snowball's chance in hell of winning, but he was considered a relevant factor, even if it was just speculation on how badly he would split the vote.
 
Glinda said:
You're referring to Lynn Vincent, Palin's ghostwriter, correct?
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Kind of like Bill Ayers writing Dreams for Obama isn't it? that doesn't seem to bother you much. Correct?


The "success" of such books comes largely from the Conservative Book Club, Scaife-funded NewsMax, and other partisan organizations who buy in bulk and essentially give them away.
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do you have numbers showing that is how this book was so successful?


j-mac
 
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