Sarah Palin Memoir: The Power Of Political Books

The Big Money:

Dan Gross, my colleague at Newsweek and Slate, pinged me the other morning after he had read the reports that Sarah Palin's new book--suddenly announced for next month--would not be available as an e-book. Gross, a pioneer in e-book publishing long before Tina Brown, had noticed that Palin's publisher was following Ted Kennedy's by holding off on the e-book format.

Read the whole story: The Big Money

Comments

[Hammerofthor]

10:42 AM on 10/06/2009

"Going Rogue": Powerful memoir of a powerful woman's life. Sure to be inspiring and exceptional.

[Lesperado]

11:24 AM on 10/06/2009

It doesn't take much to talk into a tape recorder for 4 days and have someone else write it all down. Palin is an under educated duffus!

[loudyk]

08:38 PM on 10/05/2009

Oh, sorry. I thought the title of this article was 'The Power of Political Jokes'. My mistake.

[thepoliticalcat]

03:54 PM on 10/05/2009

The primary difference between fans of Hillary and Bill Clinton, Alan Greenspan, et al, and the fans of Sarah Palin is that the former group of people does read. For them, buying a hardcover book for $35 is a talking point because they will read it, and they have a coffee table or bookshelf on which to place it for maximum bragging rights. Alas, the followers of Moose O'Lini are an unread lot who struggle to lip-synch their way through the daily paper. I very much doubt, in these tough economic times, that they would be willing to shell out $35, which they could spend on beauty supplies or gun cartridges at Wal-Mart, on a book. They'll probably wait for the paperback to come out, or the $2.00 edition in the remainder bin.

[sippewissett]

11:06 AM on 10/05/2009

Please note that the author of the article on Big Money: "Marion Maneker is the former publisher of HarperCollins's business imprint". This means that one can hardly read the article without inferring the vested interest the author has in the success of a H-C book. Scarcely whom one should choose for a wider commentary on palin, writing, word-salad, ghost-writing, etc.

Here's the part I like the most because Maneker does get it right with respect to Palin's "base": "Most people won’t buy Palin’s book in a bookstore; most of her buyers probably don’t have a bookstore they visit regularly. Instead, the bulk of sales will be in Wal-Marts, Krogers, Costcos, and newsstand chains like Hudson News."

In the main, they are sure not Kindle readers!