A large cash advance was certainly involved. The percentage-of-sales comments here are being done sarcastically.
But note that only 3200 books were sold. And this book was put out by a well-established publisher. Do you think that those publishers are so stupid that they couldn’t predict that less than 10,000 books would be sold? They knew. This was a bribe.
Sometimes if it quacks like a duck, it’s a duck.
“Sometimes if it quacks like a duck, it’s a duck.”
I could possibly agree with you, but what did Newscorp get out of it and why was it reported from the NY Times, a liberal rag with a terrible history of lies?
From what I got out of the article, the lobbying efforts were for some really nothing situations like giving $15 an hour to newspaper people and property rights for dead people. There must be more they didn’t tell us, which is not a surprise.
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