Would You Pay $1,000 For Ted Kennedy's Memoirs?

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Jul 14th 2009 at 3:00PM

My colleague Jared Paul Stern recently reported that Hugh Hefner's biography will run $1,300 a figure no doubt made more tempting by the inclusion of selections from Playboy magazine. But will readers pay $1,000 for Ted Kennedy's memoir, "True Compass?" The NY Times Media Decoder blog says that the publisher, Twelve, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing will issue a limited edition run of 1,000 leather-bound and electronically-signed versions of the memoir. The limited edition will include family photos that are not available in the standard hardcover. The edition will be sold through Hachette Book Group, the parent company of Grand Central of which Twelve is an imprint. Standard copies will sell for $35 and the book will be released in October.

Kennedy is said to have received $8 million for the book which he wrote with Ron Powers, an author of "Flags of Our Fathers." Kennedy is far from the first political figure with an expensive book. A limited edition of President Clinton's massive "My Life" sold for $350 and a leather-bound version of President Reagan's memoir "An American Life" was sold for $1,500 back in 1990.

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Owl Jul 14th 2009 3:24PM

The $1,000 version is also has laminated pages. That way, if you get hammered and drive off a bridge into a body of water the book will be OK.

JBoll Jul 15th 2009 12:55AM

Great response OWL, and NO I could careless what that blowhard has to say.

Justin Jul 15th 2009 5:43PM

Jboll, you mean you could care less what fact & truth tellers have to say?

Keep up your abortion rights with your Kennedy buddies, statistically more likey liberal voters get aborted in the history of America than conservative ones, see if I care.

If you can't take facts, sounds like you're the blowhard.

Some Guy Jul 14th 2009 5:45PM

Oh, I'm sure that every lobbyist on K street is going to buy a copy of this book and have it sitting on their desk when the congresscritters come to get their handouts.

nglawson81 Jul 14th 2009 10:19PM

THIS GUY IS A MURDERER!!!!!!!!!!!! He can probably got us some cheap booze from the family stash though.

Steve Jul 15th 2009 10:42PM

Unfortunately people worship Ted in Massachusetts because of his last name, when in reality the family became known for good looks and little else.

I don't doubt that he will sell some copies with his die hards, which is a shame really. People out to respected because of their work, not their last name.