Sarah Palin, Library Journal, and Me

So Sarah Palin's book came out yesterday. Did you pick up your copy? If not, you can get one cheap. Amazon (where it's #1) is selling it for $14.50. So is Walmart. Since those two sellers account for a huge chunk of book sales in this country, chances are they'll move quite a few copies.

They'll have to if Palin is going to earn back the reported $5 to $7 million advance HarperCollins paid her. Just how many copies? Let's do the math. For the sake of argument, split that estimated advance down...