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Sarah Palin waves to well-wishers after serving hot dogs at the Governor's Picnic in Alaska - Source: Reuters -
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Sarah Palin's upcoming memoir is already the top bestselling book on the shopping sites of Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble, a month and a half before the book goes on sale.
The book from last year's Republican vice-presidential candidate, titled Going Rogue: An American Life, is scheduled for release on November 17, four months after the book deal was announced and much earlier than planned.
It became available for pre-order this week, but has been in Amazon.com's top 100 for three days, and just replaced the latest novel from Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown at the top of the list.
"It obviously bodes well that there's so much interest and excitement," says Tina Andreadis, spokeswoman for HarperCollins, the book's publisher.
It is typical for highly anticipated books to jump in the bestseller ratings as soon as they become available for pre-order, says Amazon.com spokeswoman Sarah Gelman.
For example, Brown's book, The Lost Symbol, topped the list immediately after becoming available as a pre-order in April.
It is now the second-best-selling book on Amazon.com, followed by Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government, by conservative commentator Glenn Beck.
Palin, 45, the conservative former governor of Alaska, became a household name last year when Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain chose her as his running mate in the 2008 US election campaign.
During the campaign she was criticized for being inexperienced and for saying her foreign policy experience was strengthened by Alaska's geographic proximity to Russia.
Palin resigned as governor in July, a move Andreadis says gave her more time to write and contributed to the book being released before the original 2010 timeline.
