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Re: Is there really a publisher stupid enough to pay Palin $7 million for a book? - swampy - 11-23-2008
mattkime wrote:
John McCain and the Republican party already lost with her. i guess someone else wants to do the same.
It will be in the NYT top ten list within a week of release. There will be a book tour. Palin will be on all the talk shows and appearing at Barnes and Nobel everywhere.
Just warning you, Matt.
Re: Is there really a publisher stupid enough to pay Palin $7 million for a book? - kanesa - 11-23-2008
swampy wrote:
[quote=mattkime]
John McCain and the Republican party already lost with her. i guess someone else wants to do the same.
It will be in the NYT top ten list within a week of release. There will be a book tour. Palin will be on all the talk shows and appearing at Barnes and Nobel everywhere.
Just warning you, Matt.
I agree with you, swampy. But they have to do it fast before her charm fades and it will.
Re: Is there really a publisher stupid enough to pay Palin $7 million for a book? - MacGurl - 11-23-2008
simonm wrote:
You can bet they will have done the maths and come out with a decent profit. They want a best-seller. They will get a writer who can do a good job.
They'd better get a very very good writer (maybe someone who generally writes fantasy novels?), no way that nit-wit Palin could write it herself.
Kathy
Re: Is there really a publisher stupid enough to pay Palin $7 million for a book? - mikeylikesit - 11-23-2008
If I were a rich partisan Democrat, I might underwrite her book and subsequent book tour. I'd try to time it during or just prior to the next election cycle.:popcorn:
Re: Is there really a publisher stupid enough to pay Palin $7 million for a book? - swampy - 11-23-2008
Kathy..."They'd better get a very very good writer (maybe someone who generally writes fantasy novels?), no way that nit-wit Palin could write it herself."
I assume that was sarcasm.
Re: Is there really a publisher stupid enough to pay Palin $7 million for a book? - mikeylikesit - 11-23-2008
What have you seen Ms. Palin do or say that would lead you to believe she can write a comprehensible book?
Re: Is there really a publisher stupid enough to pay Palin $7 million for a book? - swampy - 11-23-2008
I've seen that she is a very successful and well liked Governor so I think she has the intelligence. She majored in journalism so I think she has the language skills.
Re: Is there really a publisher stupid enough to pay Palin $7 million for a book? - mikeylikesit - 11-23-2008
She bounced through six or seven no entrance requirement schools to get that piece of paper. While that may get her credit for perseverance, it says nothing to her competence or ability. If I recall correctly Mr. Bush the incompetent also had one or two degrees from highly recognized institutions.
She has neither but I'll be looking forward to her book and hope it keeps her in the limelight.
Re: Is there really a publisher stupid enough to pay Palin $7 million for a book? - lafinfil - 11-23-2008
swampy wrote:
She majored in journalism so I think she has the language skills.
So she's going to write a books about small market sports broadcasting ?
That's like saying that because Bush has an MBA from Yale he can surely fix the economy.
Re: Is there really a publisher stupid enough to pay Palin $7 million for a book? - Wags - 11-23-2008
