Windfall

Talk about good timing.

clipped from seattletimes.nwsource.com Kenmore publisher strikes gold with Palin bio By Melissa Allison Seattle Times staff reporter A local publisher is scrambling to fill orders for about 40,000 copies of the only biography of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, which until Friday morning had sold just 8,000 copies. "What a stroke of luck," said Kent Sturgis, publisher and co-owner of Epicenter Press in Kenmore. He had 3,000 copies of the hardback version left on Friday morning, when Republican presidential candidate John McCain announced Palin as his running mate. "We decided right off the bat that we better go ahead and do a paperback version," he said. "We were producing copies of this paperback about 14 hours after the announcement, and they'll all be shipped on Tuesday." The book had climbed to No. 7 on Amazon.com's best-selling-books list by Saturday evening. The list is updated hourly.