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‘The Rogue’ sells 6,000 copies in first week
Politco ^ | September 29, 2011

Posted on 09/29/2011 10:29:45 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Joe McGinniss’s controversial book “The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin” sold 6,034 copies in its first six days on bookshelves, according to Nielsen Bookscan.

The book did best in the Pacific geographic area, which includes Alaska, selling more than 1,500 copies, while “The Rogue” sold fewer than 500 copies in the Northeast, which includes New York, according to the International Business Tribune. BookScan tracks sales for about 75 percent of books sold in the United States.

The book, which has been both panned by critics and seen excerpts go viral on the Internet, currently ranks 116th on Amazon’s Best Sellers, and according to IBT was the 16th best-selling new hardcover last week. It’s possible the buzz and controversy over the book’s most salacious revelations dampened enthusiasm to buy the actual book if potential customers believed they had already been exposed to the most explosive allegations in “The Rogue.”


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dampsquib; dud; fail; fizzle; mcginniss; palin; pulped; remaindered
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1 posted on 09/29/2011 10:29:47 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

6,000 in a week........nothing.


2 posted on 09/29/2011 10:31:51 AM PDT by svcw (Those who are easily shocked... should be shocked more often. - Mae West)
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How much is it, it maybe be cheaper than FirePlace kindling or a doorstop.


3 posted on 09/29/2011 10:32:48 AM PDT by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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roll of toilet paper ?


4 posted on 09/29/2011 10:34:18 AM PDT by Renegade
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Chicks with Guns is #85, The Rogue is #116.

Just goes to show you.


5 posted on 09/29/2011 10:34:41 AM PDT by buffaloguy
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

For comparison: (according to the NYT)

Update | 3:34 p.m. “Going Rogue,” the newly released memoir by Sarah Palin, the former Alaskan governor and Republican nominee for vice president, sold 469,000 copies in its first week of release, according to sales figures released Wednesday by Nielsen BookScan. That made “Going Rogue” the top-selling book of the week on Nielsen BookScan’s chart, putting it ahead of new releases from authors like James Patterson (whose novel “I, Alex Cross” was No. 2) and Stephen King (whose novel “Under the Dome” placed at No. 3), as well as Dan Brown’s best-selling potboiler “The Lost Symbol.” The book will also make its debut at No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list for nonfiction on Dec. 6.

Ms. Palin’s book also had the second-best first-week sales of any memoir by a current or past president, or vice presidential or presidential contender, Nielsen BookScan said. The No. 1 book on that list, “My Life” by Bill Clinton, sold 606,000 copies in its first week of release in 2004; at No. 3 is Hillary Rodham Clinton’s “Living History,” which sold 440,000 copies when it was first released in 2003.

HarperCollins, which released “Going Rogue,” said the book’s overall first-week sales totaled 700,000 copies. Nielsen BookScan does not record sales at some mass-market retailers, like Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club.


6 posted on 09/29/2011 10:39:56 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And almost EVERY copy sold was to a gay Mainstream media news room wonk. Funny that, isn’t it.


7 posted on 09/29/2011 10:40:27 AM PDT by tcrlaf (Election 2012: THE RAPTURE OF THE DEMOCRATS)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Six thousand copies? Heh. Probably a good thing for Joe that Sarah sicced her lawyer on him, otherwise this thing really would have been a stiff.


8 posted on 09/29/2011 10:43:00 AM PDT by RichInOC (Palin 2012: The Perfect Storm.)
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To: svcw

Well he DID beat Assange who sold 600+./s

Race to the bottom I guess.


9 posted on 09/29/2011 10:48:07 AM PDT by Marty62 (Marty60)
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To: svcw

Yes but how much you want to bet it will have “New York Times #1 best seller” on the cover? And if that fat lesbian in the closet Oprah still had her show, there is no doubt she would have this idiot on while promoting that the book is her “Oprah book club”.


10 posted on 09/29/2011 10:49:34 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Mark Halperin - Learned the hard way what happens when you speak the truth on PMSNBC.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Compare 126th place to Michael Savage’s work of fiction which is at 4th place.


11 posted on 09/29/2011 10:57:20 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’m waiting for some liberal outfit to buy 100,000 copies so they can tout it as a “Best Seller” (thinking of Hillary’s literary excursions).


12 posted on 09/29/2011 11:06:02 AM PDT by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That isn’t even enough to cover the cost of the first printing....


13 posted on 09/29/2011 11:13:16 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

LOL I guess he owes the publisher money?


14 posted on 09/29/2011 11:13:43 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I see my public library ordered 16 copies. Maybe that’s where most of the sales are coming from. I doubt they will get 16 copies’ worth of interest.


15 posted on 09/29/2011 11:14:13 AM PDT by FlyVet
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"Compare 126th place to Michael Savage’s work of fiction which is at 4th place."

Fiction sells better when you actually market it as fiction :-)

16 posted on 09/29/2011 11:16:51 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Joe McGinniss’s controversial book sold 6,034 copies, all of them bought by the Obama campaign or posters at DU, DailyKos, and HuffPo.”


17 posted on 09/29/2011 11:17:53 AM PDT by Darksheare (You will never defeat Bok Choy!)
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I’m sure he’ll sell 2 or 3 more next week and then it will be in the dollar stores.


18 posted on 09/29/2011 11:20:35 AM PDT by tiki
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

His lazy democtratic ass got tired going door to door.


19 posted on 09/29/2011 11:27:29 AM PDT by THE_RAIDER
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To: chris_bdba

thats not even enough to cover his flight to Alaska.


20 posted on 09/29/2011 11:30:11 AM PDT by THE_RAIDER
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