Re: OT: This is sad but interesting: correction.

sorry brian
The 2 dollars per book is a typo. I actually calculated on 2 dollars per
3
books.

 His claim is he won't have time to write because he will have to get a
job.
I guess he won't be the first writer to work as well as write.	and if
he
has been careful he does at least have his previous income to fall back
on.
Perhaps he could work part time!
Bob DeAngelis
Hobby pages
www.angelfire.com/games4/chubbybob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Bilderback" <bbilderback@hotmail.com>
To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 11:02 PM
Subject: Re: OT: This is sad but interesting:

> Bob DeAngelis Wrote:
>
>
> >Hmm he says he earns 2 dollars if we buy all three books so thats 2
dollars
> >for every book he sells.
>
> No, that's $2.00 per trio of books, as I read it, and specifically for
> Talion: Revenant, The Dark Glory War, and Fortress Draconis.	I don't
know
> how good those specific books are or how many he sells.
>
> Now on amazon I counted 20 plus starwars books that
> >he says sell between 250,000 and 500,000 copies let us assume a low
sales
> >of
> >an average of 300,000 per book or 200,000 dollars income for each
novel
> >with
> >20 novels thats $4,000,000 dollars isn't it just on his starwars
novels.
> >Dire straits. Dire straits indeed!!
>
> Assuming he makes as much per book for the SW and BT.  That is in now
way
a
> given.  If the figure is down in the pennies per book, which is
possible,
> the annual income is significantly less.
>
> >
> >Bob DeAngelis
> >PS perhaps I am using the wrong figures ???
>
> Possible.
>
> However, regardless of how dire his straits may be, it would be sad to
see
> him cease to publish novels if he can't get a contract.
>
> Brian B2
>
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