Palin Memoir, Sure To Be a Classic, Already a Bestseller

Posted by Liliana Segura, AlterNet at 1:00 PM on October 2, 2009.

In news that should make struggling writers (and, really, everyone else) weep, Reuters reports today that failed VP candidate and former Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin's upcoming memoir, Going Rogue, is "already the top bestselling book on the shopping sites of Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble," no less than a month and a half before the book even hits the shelves!

According to Reuters:

The memoir, which became available for pre-order this week, has been in Amazon.com's top 100 for three days, and just replaced the latest novel from "Da Vinci Code" author Dan Brown at the top of the list.

"It obviously bodes well that there's so much interest and excitement," said Tina Andreadis, spokeswoman for HarperCollins, the book's publisher and a unit of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.

"Bodes well for whom, Tina?" struggling publishers of serious books and creative writing students everywhere might ask, to which Tina might respond, "well, Todd Palin, for starters." Indeed, coincidentally, news broke today that the former "First Dude" has resigned his oil post to "spend time with his family."

Aside from bemoaning the crass nature of celebrity publishing, there's not really a lot to do with this latest miscarriage in publishing justice. But don't despair, readers, it's Friday! For fun, over on the Twitters, people have been coming up with alternative titles to Palin's 400-page tome, under the category "Rejected Palin Titles."

A sampling:

Are You There, Russia? It's Me, Sarah

Levi Johnston Moved My Cheese

Burn Before Reading

Dummies for Dummies

Think you can do better? Go for it, in the comments section.

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Liliana Segura is a staff writer and editor of AlterNet's Rights and Liberties and World Special Coverage.