Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin appears well on her way to becoming a million-selling author.
“Going Rogue” sold 700,000 copies — a number that includes pre-orders — in its first week of release, according to a publishing official close to the former Alaska governor. The official was not authorized to release the sales figure and asked not to be identified.
Palin also tops Amazon.com’s best-sellers list and has spent 57 days in the Websites’s top 100 group.
Palin’s memoir came out Nov. 17 with a first printing of 1.5 million copies. On Friday, publisher HarperCollins announced that the printing would be increased to 2.5 million.
Few nonfiction books have debuted so well. In 2004, Bill Clinton’s “My Life” sold more than 900,000 copies in its first week.
According to The Age, Palin’s sales are ahead of Hillary Clinton’s, whose autobiography “Living History” broke records when it was published in 2003, selling 200,000 copies on publication day.
The figures are nonetheless a long way behind fiction sales: Dan Brown’s “The Lost Symbol” sold more than 1 million copies in the US, Britain and Canada in its first day in the shops, while “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” sold 2.6 million copies in its first 24 hours in Britain alone.