Speaking of Obama's books, I read the most recent one (dealing with his political philosophies) and was amazed at all the rhetoric about what a far-left guy he was. Obviously not many opponents of his read his book.
Including my law firm. My boss ws seriously worried about his 401(k) being nationalized. Now Obama is putting in all sorts of concessions into the stimulus bill to try to help it be palatable to Republicans (who he doesn't even need, anyways) because bipartisanship is very important to him, and he deplored the atmosphere in Washington when the Republicans held the White House and Congress.
I agree that a book authored by Sarah Palin might not be of great interest initially to me, but if she set forth her political philosophies and had some introspection on her failures, I would consider reading it. Obama's book had that.