![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But he was probably just mad that he only got $7m for his memoir, Decision Points.ĥ. George W Bush once joked that it was “10,000 pages long”. But if you wanted those illicit details (“immoral and foolish” is all he has to say), you had to sift through more than 1,000 pages documenting the US president’s childhood in Arkansas and time in office. Why? One particular – ahem – encounter comes to mind as the value to publisher Knopf. My Life by Bill Clinton ($15m, $19m today) So good value for all?īill Clinton’s My Life, piled high in a Barnes and Noble in 2004. The first in the trilogy, Fall of Giants, sold 2m copies in 10 weeks, thus providing many households with a 1,000-page book that could also serve as a paperweight or deterrent for house intruders. It wasn’t out of the blue: by that point, Follett was the author of four bestselling historical novels, all of which reeked of being potential Hollywood fodder. Why ? Penguin paid the hugely popular Follett $16.5m per book in his Century trilogy. But once known for bashing out serviceable thrillers, Patterson is now probably more famous for managing a kind of Victorian publishing factory, presiding over an empire of keen, younger writers who are willing to write books that Patterson can pop his name on. Patterson sells, on average, 20m books a year in two years alone, it is estimated he earned $500m (£405m) for his publisher, Hachette, so this mind boggling deal for 11 adult books and six aimed at children over three years was a steal. ![]()
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