In Which I Speculate (More Than Half-Seriously)

In response to @davidinindy's:

Hard to imagine a world where a Glenn Beck "novel" displaces 'The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest' on the NYTs Bestseller List. O_oMon Jun 28 19:41:35 via webDavid M
davidinindy

And (wild assumption) assuming it takes 10,000 books sold to make the NYT Best Seller list, I divined the following numbers:

• 18 sold to Tea Partiers able to read at 3rd grade level (the other dozen or so waiting for paperback)
• 9 sold to Tea Partiers not (yet) able to read at 3rd grade level but with aspirations
• 6 sold to people who mistook it for Ludlum's "The Osterman Weekend" (who, by the way, are wishing they had saved their receipts)
• 9,967 sold to a variety of different organizations, all of which used the same credit card to place the order -- that card's MRP paid by a check signed by Michael Steele.