Jessie cashes in

"Cub Driver" wrote in message
...

Now much did you get for "When Thunder Rolled"? Had to be what 2-3
million

Smithsonian Institution Press regards itself as a university press.
You do it for the honor of the thing.

Say Jessie's book sells for $24.95, and so does Ed's, and say that
they both get 10 percent royalties on the first 5,000 copies. (Jessie
may in fact do better than that.) Sounds like even money, huh? If only
it were so!

Knopf does the math this way: 10 percent of $24.95 is $2.495 per book.

SIP as a higher-math university press figures: okay, we had to give up
50 percent to the distributor, so we got $12.475 per book times 10
percent to the author is $1.2475 per book, or half as much.

I majored in guvmint, so it took me years to figure that out.

all the best -- Dan Ford
email: www.danford.net/letters.htm#9

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You missed my wink ;-) I knew Ed wasn't making much if anything on his book

Sure does seem damn unfair. If Ed had been paid based on "bullets expended
against" I'm sure he'd have Jessica beat

OTOH she will have to deal with being too famous to work for a while.
Something she didn't ask for or have control of.

"Phineas Pinkham" wrote:

My point is there is no need to characterize Rick Bragg as a "questionable"
ghost writer.

Of course there is: the man took credit in the public prints for
reports on which he was not the one who did the work. This is an
indisputable fact. And you can say that is was simply the condition
of his employment with the New York Times if you want to, but I'll
only point out that no serious and self-respecting journalist would
accept those conditions. Bragg is not fit to sharpen Stephen Crane's
pencil.

"ex cathedra" by whose pronouncement?

Can you say mea culpa?

Yes, I can, but it's not necessary in this case: I'm not the one
who cited other peoples' rote huzzahs for Bragg. That was you.


Billy

http://www.two--four.net/weblog.php

Admitting to being on the NYT staff is akin to admitting you're a member of
the KKK.

Sad to say, the reputation of the members of an organization is a reflection
upon the reputation of the organization itself- and vice versa.

The NYT has been playing fast and loose for many years now; it's reputation
is finally catching up with reality.

The *rational* response is to pretty much assume that *all* members of the
NYT are lying hacks, with to grind, an axe.

Yeah, well, I guess the crossword puzzle is still grounded in reality . . .

Steve Swartz


"Phineas Pinkham" wrote in message
...
My point is there is no need to characterize Rick Bragg as a
"questionable"
ghost writer.

"ex cathedra" by whose pronouncement?

Can you say mea culpa?

Billy Beck wrote in message Can you say "ex cathedra"?


Billy

"Mike Marron" wrote
"Phineas Pinkham" wrote:

No wonder Rasimus is foaming at the mouth!
He isn't checked out in Choppers, so no part in the movie.

I grew up witnessing the enviable dynamics that goes on
when a woman is in the presence of a decorated fighter pilot...

Hi, my name is "Maverick."

"Your mother named you Maverick!"

Gene Storey wrote:

Jesse's story will be ancient history in a year, and she needs a writer
who can get it into print as early as Christmas. After that, she might as
well be that woman who was kidnapped and buried alive. What was her name?
Yea, I know, who cares... Ancient history...

That'd be Barbara Jane Mackle. Took her 3 years to get her book out, and
primary authorship credit went to her co-writer, Gene Miller.

-Marc
--
Marc Reeve
actual email address after removal of 4s & spaces is
c4m4r4a4m4a4n a4t c4r4u4z4i4o d4o4t c4o4m

OOps

Sorry I meant to reply in the PSP thread.

Cheers...Chris

"Mike Marron" Diaries are so "last year". Everybody does Blogs now.
Technology marches
on.

Heh.

(As an aside, "Phineas Pinkham" wrote that bit about the
"dairy" -- not me.)

-Mike (BTW, what's a blog??!) Marron

Blogs are Weblogs. Online journals that the whole world can read, as long
as they know your address. The whole point is to put information out one
time, and all your friends read it.

See: livejournal.com or blogger.com

Les

"Gene Storey" wrote:
"Mike Marron" wrote:
"Phineas Pinkham" wrote:

No wonder Rasimus is foaming at the mouth!
He isn't checked out in Choppers, so no part in the movie.

I grew up witnessing the enviable dynamics that goes on
when a woman is in the presence of a decorated fighter pilot...

Hi, my name is "Maverick."

"Your mother named you Maverick!"

He did receive a similiar response once (actually, it was even
worse) after tipping a barmaid's [ahem] cleavage...

-Mike (oh well, ya' win some ya' lose some) Marron

she's certain to be discharged on medical

She's already out, according to the Reuters story.

Come on! She's a little girl! Cut her some slack, and be happy that
she got through the experience without too much damage, and with a bit
of money in the bank. (The ex-NYT ghost writer will take a part of
that million, you betcha, and the agent who made the deal gets 10
percent off the top.)

Of course, if Mr. Bragg turns it into a rant against the bad military,
I will be really annoyed.

all the best -- Dan Ford
email: www.danford.net/letters.htm#9

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"Cub Driver" NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former prisoner of war Jessica Lynch has
signed a
$1 million agreement with Alfred A. Knopf, giving the injured former
U.S. Army private the chance to tell her own story, the publisher said
on Tuesday.


all the best -- Dan Ford

Wow! They must be lining up at the recruiting stations to join up!
When I was in Europe stationed minutes flying time away from the "iron
curtain" by CF-104 I too was in a roll over accident. Dam, I didn't think
of writing a book nor was I approached to do so. No medal either, just a
terse discussion with the MP's on return to the base! ;-)
Good luck to Jessie! I wonder if she will get movie royalties also.
Ed