Sarah Palin memoir tops US bestseller chart
 

Former US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's memoir has topped the US bestseller list in its first week of release, industry figures have shown.

With almost half a million copies sold, Going Rogue: An American Life beat new blockbusters by James Patterson and Stephen King Nielsen BookScan said.

Her sales have topped those of Barack Obama, whose Audacity of Hope sold 67,000 copies in its first week.

Palin ran for vice president last year alongside John McCain.

She has since stepped down from her position as governor of Alaska, but remains extremely popular among many American conservatives.

Book confusion

A string of public appearances have helped to boost both her profile and book sales.

An appearance on the Oprah Winfrey Show, during which Palin said a run for the White House in 2012 was "not on my radar screen right now", boosted the programme's ailing ratings.

However, first week sale statistics show her book has sold less than former president Bill Clinton's 2004 memoir, My Life, at the same period of sales, but is just ahead of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's 2003 Living History.

In October, Palin's book jumped to the top of the bestseller lists on the strength of advance sales only.

The title refers to claims that while on the campaign trail with Mr McCain, Palin pursued her own agenda.

Meanwhile, a book of critical essays about Palin, with a strikingly similar cover to Going Rogue, has been confusing some US media outlets.

Pictures of the book, called Going Rouge, have been used by USA Today and Fox News to illustrate their coverage of the former vice-presidential candidate's memoirs.

And, according to the LA Times, CNN mistakenly reported that White House officials were sharing copies of Going Rouge, when they had actually been reading Palin's book.

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What is the deal with people giving that idiot any attention at all?


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lets face it, she is foxy.

Funny that the media never mentions that the plane she is using to fly around to all of these book signings and the bus she is using are owned by Billy Graham...

We should stop call it USA and start saying TMZ.

Unreal how people are so into voyeurism of celebrities lives. Don't they have a nice full live to live without caring about what's going on in the world of others???

I bet people who buy that book is people that read no more than 5 books every 10 years. What a waste of time and money.

I completely read Barack Obama's book - Audacity of Hope.

wow 500,000 sold gets you number 1 on the best sellers list...

no wonder this country is in such turmoil..

no one reads anymore and when they do read, its total shit...

im going rogue on dating and webcam traffic, who needs a root-n-tootin white label gee golly?

your going maverick

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_y1obSLk0ax...palin_wink.jpg

Palin 2012!!!

I heard the book has a pull-out centerfold .... Is that true ? :winkwink:

Didn't even need to wait for the thread to jump the shark - she was compared to Clinton in the original story. This makes me glad that most old-media networks are folding.

Depending on the week as few as 30-40K sold can get you on the top of the best seller list. If the publisher has a book that they know will sell around 30K in its first week they will wait to release it for a week when those types of sales figures can get you in the #1 spot because that spot gives you a ton of free publicity.

Another trick they like to do is push the book hard to book clubs a certain other types of stores. These books count as sold books even if they don't actually end up in a reader's hands for a while. If they can sell a bunch to book clubs and get a bunch sold to smaller independent book stores they can take the top spot and may not actually have a single book that has left the shelf and been bought by a reader.

With the huge $$$ spent on her advertising campaign including that big tour bus she should be on the best sellers list.