How much money do you want to bet that Sarah, or one of her "Aides" says, "We didn't realize that these sales would generate royalties...OF COURSE we'll be paying that money back to the publisher!"

Translation - "We didn't realize we'd get busted" This woman is a straight up, hillbilly grifter. Watch the wingnuts defend her once they figured out how.

Yeah, bulk sales are the inevitable product of trying to look like you have substantive, book-worthy ideas when your target audience doesn't read.

What everyone is missing on this is potentially HUGE: she gave free books to people who donated to her PAC. She uses PAC money to pay for the "free" books. It's false advertising, plain and simple and attorney's general, especially in Florida, do not like claims of free that end up not being free.

She also appears to have paid for a lot of travel, hotels and rentals cars through her PAC that will likely line up with her book tour. So, she made people buy books at Borders if they wanted her to sign them -- many of those people then made donations to her PAC (which she advertised on her book tour bus). So those people paid for the book AND the book tour. Add to that the fact that they thought they were getting a "free" book out of it and it looks like there is some questionable billing going on around here. Her fans have been paying for this whole book thing and thought they were making donations to valuable causes. She didn't make contributions to candidates until the last day possible.

Ka-Ching!

Jennifer

Please remember another interesting gambit being played by Palin. Her advance and fee for the next book she has written for her will be based in part upon how many books her first effort sells! So not only is she skimming royalties off this one, but she is increasing the value of the next and using other people's money to do it!
Give her credit, has she learned how to rip off the masses? YOU BETCHA!

@Jamie, Great point and probably why NRA members get a free copy of the book when they join -- which her PAC donors will then pay for in their check to fund the cause. I think new NRA members get a signed copy if they do a three-year membership. (They probably don't realize that she used PAC money to buy a pen that will sign her name on those books --- sshhhhhhh.) That really cracks me up! People who pay more to get a "signed" copy paid for the pen to make it look like a signed copy.

Jennifer

Palin also said she is donating her fee for speaking at the teabag party. Right. She is taking the fee and THEN donating it.

She is such a liar. That fee is going straight to her bank account.

Maybe she'll donate the fee to her pack.

"Fundraising donor fulfillment" is a fancy way of saying we give away copies as donation premiums. And this episode should confirm what I've said since last April: the GOP's grand plan for a comeback is designed first and foremost for the benefit of jobless Republicans.

Gryphen of The Immoral Minority called her "Lady Gag-me" today. Bwahahahahaha

Someone made this comment after he posted her PAC disbursements:

"I would just like to say I work for a federal agency that has the Palin's on their radar. I have an associate that works for another agency that is interested as well. That is all I can say."

Also, the teabaggers are not happy with her for endorsing McCain. One group pulled their support as laid out in an email that Gryphen posted.

Looks as if things are getting interesting up north, you betcha...also too.

@Jennifer,
The books are probably signed with an auto-pen and dear Sarah never has to waste her valuable time!
It will be interesting to see if the "tea baggers" are organized as a 501c3 not for profit corporation. (They are not a political party)
So if they are a NFP then could Sarah's "donation" become a tax deduction against her growing income? What a scam that would be and it would be worthy of an investigation. I mean Dick Armey is involved, so I put nothing past them.

Please, please, please let this be a clear-cut case of money laundering. Please.

If it is, Palin will find out that the feds don't care that "she didn't MEAN to break any laws."

I'll bet she didn't pay the $5.99 Costco price, neither. Best she paid the full price. Am I wrong in assuming that book royalties are a percentage of the profit?