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Publishing a Borat book is clearly a totally genius idea. After all, people will still be just as feverishly enthusiastic about Borat a year from now, right? And Borat's accent-based humor seems like it would translate to the printed page really, really well. (Borat voice:) NAAHHT! (Yeah, see how funny that was?)

This morning, Page Six reported that "several publishers have made multimillion-dollar offers" for the book that's already sold to British publisher Boxtree. A reliable(r than Page Six) tipster informs us that the proposal is "nothing but a book of postcards. Maybe Dan [Strone @ Trident] is planning to bulk it up . . . but if not, I think that's pretty funny. Also heard that Dan hadn't sent any material out when he got his first offer for a million. I wonder if he's sent material out to anyone — If not—these "multi-million dollar" offers are all blind!"

Another tipster informs us that "bidding is up to 2 million for 2 books—Borat and Bruno. As far as anyone knows, there is no written proposal. HarperEntertainment is passing because the book can't be crashed [trans: cranked out superquickly]—it'll be at least a year before it comes out and it will be 4-color with seven-figure-hilarious illustrations."

Ah, a multimillion dollar book of postcards — another wise, well-considered book deal a-brewin.' We'll keep you posted.

Author Borat [Page Six]