The Hill Street Blahg

Boston.com reports:

At a time when publishers are scrambling to keep customers willing to pay $26 for a hardcover book instead of $9.99 for an electronic version, the publisher of Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s forthcoming memoir is going in the opposite direction – issuing a limited edition it plans to sell for $1,000 a copy.

Moonbattery reported in March of 2009 regarding the pricey Kennedy Memoir cover options:

Ted Kennedy has brought his malignant brain tumor back to Washington, where he will no doubt do his best to spend the $8.5 million dollar advance he got for his memoirs before his clock runs out. For that kind of cash, he’d better come clean about Chappaquiddick at long last. The publisher is still trying to narrow down options for the cover: