QUICK TAKES - Oct. 3, 2009

These are boom times for conservative authors.

Michelle Malkin’s “Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks and Cronies” spent weeks at No. 1 on the New York Times nonfiction list. Sales have been strong for Dick Morris’ anti-Obama “Catastrophe” and the reissue of “The Five Thousand Year Leap,” by W. Cleon Skousen.

And Sarah Palin may top them all.

In a feat usually reserved for the works of J.K. Rowling and Dan Brown, Palin’s book was No. 1 on Amazon.com and the Barnes & Noble website just two days after Harper announced it had moved up the release date from the spring to Nov. 17 and that the memoir’s title will be “Going Rogue.”