Sarah Palin: Going Rogue, Going Rouge, and price wars
I intended to write a post touting Sarah Palin’s upcoming book, Going Rogue, anyway. Now, more the reason. What I was originally going to say…
You may have noticed I’m spotlighting Going Rogue in my ad bloc (upper right). If you’re going to buy Going Rogue, do so by clicking on the ad on my site to purchase it, and we’ll get a small kickback – no extra cost to you.
My partner Tim of ProLifeBlogs.com and I have initiated a concerted effort to make our blogs financially self-sustaining through direct ads (like I am 71) and affiliate ads (like Amazon). The goal is to bring us into the black, as many mainstream blogs are able to do – to be tent makers, as St. Paul would say – and teach other pro-life bloggers what we learn, so more can devote time to pro-life apologetics through new media.
So that was my original point. Then I noticed the price of Going Rogue dropped drastically last week, from $29 to $9! The scoop? A good old-fashioned price war. From the Wall Street Journal, October 16:
Wal-Mart… launched a brash price war against Amazon… on Thursday, saying it would sell 10 hotly anticipated new books for just $10 apiece through its online site, Walmart.com.
That was just the beginning.
Hours later, Amazon matched the $10 price, squaring off in a battle for low-price and e-commerce leadership heading into the crucial holiday shopping season. Wal-Mart soon fired back with a promise to drop its prices to $9 by Friday morning – and made good on that vow by early evening Thursday.
To which Amazon obviously responded. Now the American Booksellers Association has asked the Justice Department to investigate, saying street book vendors may be put out of business and adding that Target.com has also entered into the war.
Last piece of Sarah Palin book news. Entertainment Weekly announced on October 21:
We know that former AK Gov. Sarah Palin can hunt, and even field-dress a moose, but how will she take to poachers on her book sales? Start-up publisher OR Books has announced plans to publish Going Rouge: Sarah Palin An American Nightmare, a collection of essays about the maverick Republican with a title – and cover design – remarkably similar to Palin’s upcoming memoir. What’s more, OR’s paperback tome will be released on Nov. 17, the same day that Palin’s own Going Rogue: An American Life hits shelves….
What nasty people liberals are, but we already knew that. One of the Going Rouge contributors will be pro-abortion princess Amanda Marcotte.
Seems to me Going Rouge is sueable for copycatting, which I hope Palin does.
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Hopefully OR and its contributors will be sued and take a loss on their book. Why would the Sarah-bashers buy the copy cat book when they can spew their hatred for free?
Wonder if I should wait to order it, maybe it’ll get even cheaper. lol.
And I hope Palin sues the pants off the copycat!
The Palin Derangement Syndrome is quite severe for those folks. It is amusing how they try to dismiss her while simultaneously showing how much they fear her.
“What nasty people liberals are, but we already knew that. One of the Going Rouge contributors will be pro-abortion princess Amanda Marcotte.”
It’s no surprise that the devils’s bride Amanda Marcotte would be leading this. These people truly are demonic.
This will be an interesting continuation of smear that seems to be working in reverse. Now that Palin is “licking her wounds” so to speak, and is trying to remain positive, classy, & independant, the hate-mongers continue the cheap attacks. I suspect that either the “rouge” slapback will run even with Palin’s book for a brief time, or flop completely at the start. I doubt it will have much success.
Here is some good Sarah Palin news. Doug Hoffman raised $116K in ONE DAY after Sarah endorsed him as the conservative candidate in NY 23.
This is even more remarkable considering her endorsement didn’t come until early evening on Thursday.
So wonderful to see someone stand by their principles and beliefs. This definitely shows the power she has with conservatives around the country.
I can’t wait to get my copy of Going Rogue. I ordered it about a month ago.
They did this with Ann Coulter too- it shows how much they truly fear true conservative women and their voice!
My husband was flying too fast through the bookstore and bought an estrich copy for me BY MISTAKE! I think that’s how her books sell.
With luck, the liberal, woman-hating, Going Rouge will sell only by the same means, (liberals copy-paste talking points). Face it, lefties don’t sell books well, because their fans don’t have the attention span sufficient to read entire books.
Case in point…. Nancy Puglosi’s book, what did she sell…. about 4000 copies?
Posted by: hhhhh at October 23, 2009 8:24 PM
“…liberals tend to be more educated than conservatives.”
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Progressive/libveral/humanists:
Stunning examples of people who have been educated beyond their intelligence.
yor bro ken
Posted by: hhhhh at October 23, 2009 8:24 PM
“…liberals tend to be more educated than conservatives.”
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The same claim has been made about ‘homosexuals’.
Are we talking about the same people?
Stunning examples of people who have been educated beyond their intelligence.
yor bro ken
Hard to get an education without an attention span. LOL!
Posted by: hhhhh at October 23, 2009 8:24 PM
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Who ever claimed you had to have an attention span to read or to get a liberal education?
No doze might be required to keep from dozing off and falling out of your chair during some of those progressive/liberal professors mind lectures about all things socialist.
yor bro ken
“Stunning examples of people who have been educated beyond their intelligence.”
They remind me of the absent-minded professor type. Not very successful in the REAL world.
It’s one thing to play off of a well known work like a book but these have stepped over the line in the use of another person’s work.
@ Bethany,
Two major differences with the Palin and Coulter book covers. Theirs will have “#1 New York Times Best Seller” on the front cover.
The libs attack books will not, for they have proven to be more popular to bookstore shelves, as they will just sit there and sit there and sit there.
The heavy discounting of Sarah’s book was due to advance copies which contained 200 empty pages. She quit that job too, also.
And BTW, the only reason right wing books are always NY Times Best Sellers, is that far right wing organizations buy them by the thousands and give them away, or throw them away, to prove their “popularity”.
Newsmax is already giving away Sarah’s book to subscribers, and it may be the first book to be initially releasd into the 99 cent clearance bins, as thousands of orders at $30 are cancelled.
Bystander, the heavy discounting was due to a pricewar. Nice try.
Lauren,my comment about the 200 empty pages was a joke,but I might turn out to be right, we’ll see.
Bystander, I thought you were the joke? Wait-you are.
Tell yourself whatever you need to in order to feel better, but I bought and paid for my copies of Anne’s books, and I’ll be doing the same with Sarah’s.
Funny how liberals only know how to mock. And piggyback off of conservative success.
Its so taboo to be a female conservative. You’re breaking rank with the man-hating, baby-fearing crew cuts before you. You’re savvy, strong, and gee, happy. And they get very peeved about that.
Frankly, I find it thrilling. Go, Sarah!
I’m independent and an Obama voter (sigh!).
But the Liberals are really getting nuts over this thing about Sarah Palin.
I’m pro-business. This move aims at destroying people’s livelihood. Gosh, can’t Obama Fans just allow some people earn a living.
I hate Obama now. I’m one of the casualties. I lost my job last February.
So … I’ll spare some money to buy this book … I mean … the Real Book of Sarah Palin and learn what she has to say and to once and for all clear out all the rumors floating around her during the last election.
By the way, I did vote for Obama because no one could force me to vote for Dirty McCain.
I’m still neutral about Sarah Palin. But lately, SHE’S MAKING A SENSE.
Posted by: hhhhh at October 23, 2009 8:24 PM
“…liberals tend to be more educated than conservatives.”
“Educated” is the operative word. I would tend to use the term “indoctrinated” for liberals. It’s amazing I graduated from college with my soul and values and intact after the brainwashing I received.
The heavy discounting of Sarah’s book was due to advance copies which contained 200 empty pages. She quit that job too, also.
Posted by: Bystander at October 24, 2009 10:43 AM
Oh, did she, also, too? As well? Additionally, and in addition? Furthermore, did she likewise, alike, besides?
Just curious.
;-)
LOL
Thanks, MaryRose. I needed that!!
XD Always glad to help out a friend :)