Midknight Review -- new and revised: In case you missed it - Palin's 'Going Rogue' was the # 1 non-fiction for 2009. She made Glenn Beck look like a beggar.

Sarah Palin Book Income Update

By andyrossagency

Publishers Weekly just came out with its list of the best selling books of 2009.

For all of you readers out there who thought that Going Rogue by Sarah Palin was a joke, the joke is on you. Sarah’s publisher, HarperCollins is laughing all the way to the bank. And so is Sarah. Yes. Going Rogue was the #1 non-fiction best-seller of the year. It sold 2,674,684 copies. Nobody else came close.

Ask The Agent made an educated guess that Palin received a $6,000,000 advance for the book. . . . . . . . . .

Now that the sales are in, it is a lot easier to calculate how much Palin actually made on the book and how well her publisher did.

Whatever Palin’s advance was, it was an “advance” against royalties. . . . . . . . . So Palin made $4.34 on each book or a total of $11,608,128.56. Not bad for a book she didn’t even write. She may have paid some of this out to her hack ghost writer. . . . . . . . .

But wait! It gets even better. The numbers we are talking about are for US sales of the hardback version only. It doesn’t include the following: world English sales, translations, e-book sales, electronic apps, movie options, audio books, condensations, serializations, and merchandise (calendars, t-shirts, mugs, video games, and posters). And let’s not forget book club sales. And the Conservative Book Club is . . . . . . . . . . .

But wait! It gets even better. Those numbers are only for sales in 2009. Going Rogue is still a best seller juggernaut. Her Amazon ranking is (as of today) #266 and her Kindle ranking is #573. Trade and Mass Market paperbacks will be rolling out sometime this year. By comparison, the best-selling non-fiction trade paperback in 2009 was Glen Beck’s Common Sense selling over a million copies. . . . . . . . . . .

Feel sorry for the publisher, HarperCollins, for shelling out all that dough for royalties? It’s ok. Don’t worry. Let’s look at publisher costs. . . . . . . . . . . .

I wish I was Palin’s agent. Let’s see….15% of author’s net income. That’s $1,741,219 and counting. Sweeet!

Read the full article here.

The Stated Nonsense from the Left now includes these Progressive goals:

July 2, 2008, Obama had this to say: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."

“ . . . . . . they have become a generation of activists possessed with that most American of ideas – that people who love their country can change it.” -- Obama the Radical

On September 30, Van Jones told MSNBC "I think everybody should hold onto your seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back."

Midknight Review -- new and revised

In case you missed it - Palin's 'Going Rogue' was the # 1 non-fiction for 2009. She made Glenn Beck look like a beggar.

Sarah Palin Book Income Update

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