Monday, June 22, 2009

At Least Some Writers are Doing Okay

Raw Story � Ex-Bush officials living large: Bush could earn $17,000 a page for book: "Cha-ching!

That’s the sound of Bush administration officials cashing in on their “experiences” in book deals. While unemployment skyrockets around the US, top former officials are raking in millions in profits — before their books have even been penned.

Chief among them is President Bush, whose proposed memoir has fetched $7 million from Crown, a subsidiary of Bertelsmann AG. (Crown also published President Barack Obama’s “The Audacity of Hope.”) If his book is 400 pages long, that means he’s raking in more than $17,500 per page."

3 comments:

Dave Zeltserman said...

that's a lot to pay for a book written in crayons...

Cap'n Bob said...

The proofreader should make twice that.

Gerard Saylor said...

crime pays?