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. 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!!
> 
> Bob DeAngelis
> PS perhaps I am using the wrong figures ???

No that's $2 for every 3 books. So at $4,000,000 orginal figure, div 2
times 2... carry the one... two thumbs... 4 toes.... lets see... 2.67
million... 

Course I don't think his income is so much the isue, it's the
publisher's. If an author does bring in enought profit per run, they
dump the author and find one that'll make more money for them.

Jaime