No, there apparently will be a regular hardbound edition in addition to the “limited” edition leather bound version. Still to make $8,000,000 smackers in authors royalties, at about 15% of cover price of $35, you gotta sell about 1,500,000 copies. Ain’t. Gonna. Happen. Even with paperback sales. Hope the publisher’s shareholders appreciate their dividends going to Hyannisport. (Ted probably had the editors over for a clambake and a cruise around Martha’s Vineyard.)
You forgot about the libraries... they LOVE liberal books although they just sit on the shelves...