Rogue in Vogue: Fairbanks bookstores prep for Palin memoir
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FAIRBANKS — Bookstores are going crazy for Sarah Palin’s new book, which is just one of many about her coming out right now.
“This is just the tip of the iceberg,” said Barnes & Noble manager Eric Niewohner, who is ordering a big display for the front of his store. “Obviously this is the one people are most interested in because, of course, it’s her book.”
Harper Collins, expecting high demand, is printing 1.5 million copies of “Going Rogue: An American Life,” which is due in stores today. It’s yet to be seen whether per capita demand will be higher in Alaska, where Palin made a name as mayor and governor, or Outside, where curiosity about her swift rise to fame remains strong.
The books will be available today at other Fairbanks area booksellers, including Gulliver’s Books, which has 100 copies. The University of Alaska’s Museum of the North will be selling Palin’s book, too. Museum spokeswoman Kerynn Fisher said the store carries a wide variety of books including memoirs, and given that Palin’s is a national best-seller before it even hits shelves, managers felt it would be appropriate to offer.
“We’re hoping that the Fairbanksans that are buying the book will consider buying it here at the museum — ‘buy local,’ if you will,” she said.
The museum had 72 copies as of Monday evening.
A few booksellers got off to an early start this morning. Twigs Alaskan Gifts at the airport started selling the book at 12:01 a.m. “We’ve got about 60 copies,” said Melinda Morgane, who works at the store. “More books are probably coming in the next couple of days.”
Wal-Mart in the Johansen shopping center also began selling the book at midnight, but no employee was willing to say on the record how many copies the store has.
Palin received a $1.25 million advance to write the book. It has been at or near the top of Amazon.com and other best-seller lists for weeks, ever since publisher HarperCollins announced it had been completed ahead of schedule and moved its release date up from next spring.
The former governor has a heady set of appearances to promote the book: a three-week tour starting Wednesday that will take Palin to smaller locations rather than big cities and, this week, the broadcasting of interviews with Oprah Winfrey and Barbara Walters. Palin said on her Facebook page that she wants to schedule interviews with Rush Limbaugh and Fox News Channel personalities Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck and Greta Van Susteren.
Contact staff writer Christopher Eshleman at 459-7582. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
WHERE TO BUY IT
• Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 421 Mehar Ave. 452-6400
• Fred Meyer East, 930 Old Steese Hwy. 459-4200
• Fred Meyer West, 3755 Airport Way 474-1400
• Gulliver’s Books, 3525 College Rd. 474-9574
• Twigs Alaskan Gifts, Fairbanks Airport 479-7210
• Museum of the North, 907 Yukon Dr. 474-7505
• Wal-Mart, 537 Johansen Expressway 451-9900
“This is just the tip of the iceberg,” said Barnes & Noble manager Eric Niewohner, who is ordering a big display for the front of his store. “Obviously this is the one people are most interested in because, of course, it’s her book.”
Harper Collins, expecting high demand, is printing 1.5 million copies of “Going Rogue: An American Life,” which is due in stores today. It’s yet to be seen whether per capita demand will be higher in Alaska, where Palin made a name as mayor and governor, or Outside, where curiosity about her swift rise to fame remains strong.
The books will be available today at other Fairbanks area booksellers, including Gulliver’s Books, which has 100 copies. The University of Alaska’s Museum of the North will be selling Palin’s book, too. Museum spokeswoman Kerynn Fisher said the store carries a wide variety of books including memoirs, and given that Palin’s is a national best-seller before it even hits shelves, managers felt it would be appropriate to offer.
“We’re hoping that the Fairbanksans that are buying the book will consider buying it here at the museum — ‘buy local,’ if you will,” she said.
The museum had 72 copies as of Monday evening.
A few booksellers got off to an early start this morning. Twigs Alaskan Gifts at the airport started selling the book at 12:01 a.m. “We’ve got about 60 copies,” said Melinda Morgane, who works at the store. “More books are probably coming in the next couple of days.”
Wal-Mart in the Johansen shopping center also began selling the book at midnight, but no employee was willing to say on the record how many copies the store has.
Palin received a $1.25 million advance to write the book. It has been at or near the top of Amazon.com and other best-seller lists for weeks, ever since publisher HarperCollins announced it had been completed ahead of schedule and moved its release date up from next spring.
The former governor has a heady set of appearances to promote the book: a three-week tour starting Wednesday that will take Palin to smaller locations rather than big cities and, this week, the broadcasting of interviews with Oprah Winfrey and Barbara Walters. Palin said on her Facebook page that she wants to schedule interviews with Rush Limbaugh and Fox News Channel personalities Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck and Greta Van Susteren.
Contact staff writer Christopher Eshleman at 459-7582. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
WHERE TO BUY IT
• Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 421 Mehar Ave. 452-6400
• Fred Meyer East, 930 Old Steese Hwy. 459-4200
• Fred Meyer West, 3755 Airport Way 474-1400
• Gulliver’s Books, 3525 College Rd. 474-9574
• Twigs Alaskan Gifts, Fairbanks Airport 479-7210
• Museum of the North, 907 Yukon Dr. 474-7505
• Wal-Mart, 537 Johansen Expressway 451-9900
The meteorite is aka as global warming, job stimulus, national health care, cap and trade, and international capitulation.
I think that Oh_please is the lady at the end of the bar.
"Unemployment is at 10% and climbing and the government is borrowing money like it is going out of style. Have fun thinking about that."
Yep, it as high as it has been since.... Ronald Reagan! Another deficit spending president. It is what the USA does after periods of fighting unfunded wars.
Here is another thought for you all.
Unemployment is at 10% and climbing and the government is borrowing money like it is going out of style. Have fun thinking about that.
Ptthh
Only three more years to go ladies, pace yourselves.
And now for my thought of the day
Hu does Obama bow to? Yes.
Chow
I'm sure glad I'm not Todd. The barracuda must be impossible to live with. Take a really hen-pecked type to put up with her.
What is questionable here is the timing. In a week, people's attention will be turning to the holidays, travel, and soon, this will all fade away. I wonder if she couldn't have milked it better by releasing the book either sooner or later. Why now? But then, nothing very newsworthy is happening, Obama is out of the country, what's to talk about? But as soon as something significant happens (and in this country, that won't take much, we have short attention spans), she's history again and will have to find another way to get our attention...
Upshot, this is a flash in the pan, unless/until proven otherwise. So she wrote a book--good for her. Now what?
"I give him a week. "
Yeah, maybe if API doesn't come for him first!
I don't know, akbearable.
The old farts on the DNM message boards are often so bitter and set in their ways that they're not capable of changing. You know the type. They're usually old, often retired and/or divorced. They just sit around watching Hannity and Beck and get a very twisted view of the world; a world that is rapidly leaving them behind. The fact that they don't often get out and socialize with real humans doesn't help...
I give him a week.
Where did you get your figures of 15-20% of the gop base? Blah blah blah, you just pull things out of your oh_please and type them don't you? I think you should just sit down, cover up your oh_please and watch the show. Even oprah is getting on her band wagon, how bout joe biden saying he admires the hell out of her?
Dumbocrats have much to worry about, did you see the races in Virginia and New Jerksey? That ole boy in Jerksey spent 20 million of his own coin and got beat! Wait till 2010, gop back in charge no doubt about it unbearable one.
And as you would say it, just waiting on barrack to show some transparent gov as promised. And how is that health care plan doing?
Comic books are cheaper, softer and make a lot more sense! LOL