Posted on 08/31/2008 1:39:27 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A local publisher is scrambling to fill orders for about 40,000 copies of the only biography of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, which until Friday...>
A local publisher is scrambling to fill orders for about 40,000 copies of the only biography of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, which until Friday morning had sold just 8,000 copies.
"What a stroke of luck," said Kent Sturgis, publisher and co-owner of Epicenter Press in Kenmore.
He had 3,000 copies of the hardback version left on Friday morning, when Republican presidential candidate John McCain announced Palin as his running mate.
"We decided right off the bat that we better go ahead and do a paperback version," he said. "We were producing copies of this paperback about 14 hours after the announcement, and they'll all be shipped on Tuesday."
The book had climbed to No. 7 on Amazon.com's best-selling-books list by Saturday evening. The list is updated hourly.
Called "Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned Alaska's Political Establishment Upside Down," the biography was Sturgis' idea. He recruited Alaska author Kaylene Johnson to write the 160-page book, which was released in April.
Sturgis met Palin at a Fairbanks fundraiser in 2006, and "boy, she's really interesting," he said. "No matter what you think about her politics, she's an interesting and an unusual politician."
Sturgis has been a Seattle bureau chief of The Associated Press, managing editor of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and a copy editor at The Seattle Times.
In 21 years at Epicenter, he has published about 100 titles and specializes in nonfiction about Alaska.
Epicenter's only other best-seller was "Two Old Women" by Velma Wallis, which has sold nearly 2 million books.
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now at #10 but remember...now there are none left except for 1 used copy
Already has out sold Pelosi’s?
lol. Good point :-D
Already has out sold Pelosi’s?
I guess Pelosi shoulda written a biography of Palin!LOL!
9% Nancy Pelosi's Book: "Know your power" shows up at Amazon.com Sales Rank: #17,551. On August 7th, it had sold only 2,737 Copies according to NIELSEN BOOKSCAN.
Sarah Palin can at least claim greater success that the "Speaker of the House" when it comes to book sales - LOL!
"I'm speaker of the house...I'm SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE..."
Thanks for the thread, I just placed my order. I couldn’t get the book to come up at all on Amazon but found you can buy it straight from the publisher’s site:
http://epicenterpress.com/getpage.cfm?file=book7084.html
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It is only listed as hardcover so far but I’ll donate it to my local library when I’m finished and will get a paperback copy later to keep myself. Spreading the word :-)
I have wondered if Sarah Palin would help McCain’s chances of winning Washington state.
I guess Pelosi shoulda written a biography of Palin!
Pelosi should have, she might have learned something with her research.
LOL!
I don’t know, I haven’t lived here long enough to know much about the politics. I suspect it will help with some moderates but doubt it’ll sway many of the moonbats.
They should have produced hardback instead of paperbacks and made more money.
LMAO!!
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