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Sarah Palin, Oprah Winfrey: Good for biz
by Mark Silva
Guess who gets the first TV interview of Sarah Palin on the eve of the publication of her memoirs, Going Rogue.
Oprah Winfrey.
The same Oprah who campaigned for President Barack Obama.
Our colleague Maureen Ryan at The Watcher reports: "[F]ollowing her decision to step down as governor of her home state of Alaska, and on the eve of the release of her first book, Palin will speak first to Oprah in a world exclusive interview," a statement from Oprah's production company said today.
The show airs Nov. 16, the book is out the next day.
It's a mutually satisfying arrangement: Palin's book has a press-run of 1.5 million. The Oprah Winfrey Show has an audience of 7.4 million.
Our friend and colleague Hal Boedeker at the Orlando Sentinel notes that, "In the first three weeks of the new season, Winfrey's ratings are up 15 percent from the same time last year. She is averaging 7.4 million viewers.
"That's how the book business works, folks.''
At her Facebook page, Palin's following is pushing one million.
And Amazon.com has been abuzz with advance orders for Palin's memoirs. Can a movie be far behind?
It sounds like there could be a quick second printing in the works for the 2008 Republican nominee for vice president who resigned as governor of Alaska over the summer and turned out a 400-page-plus memoir months ahead of schedule, with the help of a hired California writer who has some evangelical writing to her credit.
Palin is down, but not out, lately in the polls too, the Gallup Poll has reported -- measuring her pre-publication approval ratings as the lowest since her standing coming out of the Republican National Convention last summer.
Oprah, whose questions may take a different tack than Katie Couric's took, may not move the Gallup track, but she knows how to sell a book.
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