Ok, so confession time.... I'm really interested in reading Palin's book. Yep, that's right, after smashing her all semester I want to read the damn thing. But here's my problem, I REFUSE (did you get that???) to pay her any money in royalties. So, here's what I've figured out:"So, what can we deduce about Ms. Palin's advance? The book will have a cover price of $28.99. If her royalty is 15% of half that, she gets about $2.175 per book. (It's quite possible her royalty is larger than 15%.) If the $1.25 million amount paid already is half of her total advance, then HarperCollins expects to sell over a million copies of the book. (Either that, or they're throwing a lot of money away for the "status" and "glory" of publishing Ms. Palin's memoir.) Also, Ms. Palin will probably be paying her ghostwriter out of the advance she receives from HarperCollins. " (from http://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2009/10/Book-Royalties-Advances-and-Retainers.html)
BUT
Amazon is selling the book for $14.50 each. Which is half the cover price. So she must be making more than we think per a book.
SO
I'm figuring that if you are paying $12.00 or more for this book, you're paying Palin (which should be the title of my new book on the Palin influence on American culture).
I've never really been into policitcal issues so I don't really know what all the controversy is about Palin. However, I do think that it would be really interesting to read her book, maybe that will give me a little more incite on what she is about. I do agree that the price of the book and her making that much per book is bogus so I might wait to get it somewhere cheaper too.
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