Sarah Palin's $25.6M Week

Think of it as a 1-woman stimulus package for herself, publishing, media
By Caroline Miller,  Newser Staff
Posted Nov 20, 2009 7:11 AM CST
Sarah Palin's $25.6M Week
Sarah Palin talks to fans before an autograph session during the first stop of her book tour in Grand Rapids, Mich., on Wednesday.   (AP Photo/Adam Bird)

Estimates that Sarah Palin's Going Rogue sold 300,000 copies its first day out prompt Duff McDonald to calculate how much this week of wall-to-wall Palin exposure will net not just for her, but for her publisher, and the media outlets that love and hate her. Total take, he guesses in the Daily Beast, tops $25.6 million, counting the benefit to struggling newspapers and magazines, along with bloviators from the gushing Rush Limbaugh to the irate Andrew Sullivan.

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