In lieu of a press release

Yes, the book deal is now official. I'm delighted, but sadly all I can link to is this (in the book world, it seems, gossip columns count as hard news). Moving quickly past me, I was struck by the mention in the column that Hillary got $8m for her book (#880 Amazon sales rank). That's just $3m less than Bill (#40). Shouldn't the spread on that one have been a bit more?

Comments

[RageBoy]

Does your deal (on which congrats, btw) mean it's all over but the writin'? Oh momma! Been there, almost didn't do that. Hell of a way to say hello, given that we now have cellphones implanted in every orifice (WIRED, 10/2000), but that's all this is: a hiya -- via a notice on JOHO. seriously, great to hear this news! -RB

[dthree]

This is great news since I thought the The Long Tail was excellent, yet left me wanting more. Here are my comments on the original article.

http://d3.blogsite.org/2004/10/long-tail.html

[Ken Houghton]

Hillary (_It Takes a Village_) was an established Best-Selling Author.

Bill was joining the long venerable tradition of (to be polite) books by ex-Presidents that people buy for a few weeks before most of the copies are remaindered and/or given away by The Heritage Foundation.

If anything, the spread should have gone the other way.

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