Marie “Masha” Yovanovitch Gets Seven Figure Book Deal for a Book That’d Be Lucky To Sell Five Figures of Copies
24th February 2020
The lucrative ‘book deal’ is one of the modern variants of the classic ‘no-show job’ with which Useful Idiots are paid off for their services. There is always a stable of ghost-writers standing by to make sure that the product is not too embarrassing, and a sea of low-information proles standing by to shell out the appropriate contribution.
February 24th, 2020 at 15:04
Just to keep things in perspective, the typical amount an author gets per book sale is $1 or less. Some authors – J. K. Rowling for example – get more because their books sell at a premium. So for an author to get paid six figures on a book that won’t do five figures means that this is absolutely just a payoff.