Comments on: Wednesday Late Nite Links of Fisting?

By: Jane

Jane — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:54:43 +0000

@TerryS I thnk Amazon owns Audible.

By: TerryS

TerryS — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:15:15 +0000

Who does own Audible? I thought it was Harlequin.

And the free ebook download from Audible is only for new members.

By: Julia Sullivan

Julia Sullivan — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:22:05 +0000

Re: Alloy: The “low five-figure advances” are probably exactly $10,000. That would be a decent advance for a work-for-hire YA novel, where the norm is more like $5,000 to $7,500, though.

Re: Britney: They’ll make that $14 million back. And the ghostwriter would probably get a flat fee of $200K – $500K, depending on how many other successful books s/he’s done.

The thing about celeb autobiogs is that they really don’t take away from the work offered to professional writers–they’re kind of like their own line item.

By: mysterious

mysterious — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:36:25 +0000

Re: Alloy—-The thing that authors who work with book packagers should know is, the book packager will pocket up to 80-90% of the revenue that a book earns, across print, film, TV, whatever. Packagers pretty much rape authors. Sure, they pull down million-dollar deals for what become huge books, but most of the resulting dollars go to the packager, not the author.

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:17:07 +0000

Huh. The Audible.com link takes me to an “Error: You are not eligible for this offer” message.

By: Emmy

Emmy — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:30:02 +0000

I still like ‘fisting’ better than Fox Noise’s ‘terrorist fist bump’.

By: Shiloh Walker

Shiloh Walker — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:11:02 +0000

the potential of presidential nookie ended up creating an internet embarrassment for herself because apparently they show their love by “fisting” one another. Bwahahaha.

Damn it, Jane…that should have come with a ’spew alert’.

By: GrowlyCub

GrowlyCub — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 04:46:22 +0000

Rumor is that Britney Spears is being paid $14 Million for her autobiography.

Whoever the publisher is, they *deserve* to go bankrupt. Pity for all the good authors whom they’ll take down along the way.

Do they *never* learn?

Also, doesn’t Amazon own Audible now? Interesting that they sell DRM free music, but won’t strip the DRM off the audiobooks.

By: Rebyj

Rebyj — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:33:32 +0000

Also on Audible if you are already a member they are offering the “Discover a new series” promotion. You can download the first book of many series for 4.95. Examples: Outlander by Diana Gabaldon unabridged or the first Sookie Stackhouse book “Dead Until Dark, also Nora Roberts “Morrigan’s Cross and JD Robb”Naked in Death” .. I forget what all I saw but there are 71 to pick from .
Some good deals!

By: Keishon

Keishon — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:27:03 +0000

Yeah, er that was badly phrased. Yeesh.