Barack Obama's bestselling memoir, Dreams from my Father – first published in 1995 – has spent more than 150 weeks in the New York Times bestseller lists. Those hoping to judge Palin's prospects for a presidential run in 2012 will no doubt be further encouraged by these figures. We haven't had a lot of interest in selling the book anyway." "But it's not a big seller for the Santa Cruz market. "We know some customers have to buy it because it's on some uncle's wish list," said Coonerty-Protti. The store has so far only sold one copy of the memoir. Politics of Sarah Palin," Casey Coonerty-Protti, manager of Bookshop Santa Cruz, told her local paper. "Anyone who claims they can monitor national security by looking out their window towards Russia is a little off-base. It is currently on offer on Amazon for half-price.īut one independent bookshop, in Santa Cruz, California, is offering a different sort of incentive to customers: a bag of "Just Plain Nutz" to those who buy Going Rogue at full price. Last month Wal-Mart cut its pre-order price to $10 from its RRP of $28.99, with Amazon and Target both matching the price. Palin was paid a reported $7m (£4.4m) advance for Going Rogue, which has been the subject of fierce discounting in the US. "I can't wait to see you! God bless the fight for freedom! Keep up the great work, Patriots who love this country." I'll give you a scoop here and tell you what's on the book's Dedication Page – it's dedicated to you – Patriots – who love the USA as much as I do," the former Republican vice-presidential candidate wrote on her Facebook page before she set off. "I'm most looking forward to meeting many of you, shaking your hands, and telling you, 'Thanks for loving America'. The figures are nonetheless a long way behind fiction sales: Brown's The Lost Symbol sold more than 1m copies in the US, UK and Canada in its first day in the shops, while Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows sold 2.6m copies in its first 24 hours in the UK alone.įans have been turning out in their thousands to meet Palin, who last week embarked on a three-week, 14-state tour of the American heartland. Palin's first-day sales are behind Bill Clinton's, whose 2004 memoir My Life sold 400,000 in its first 24 hours, but ahead of Hillary Clinton's, whose autobiography Living History broke records when it was published in 2003, selling 200,000 copies on publication day.
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