If they are splitting royalties...shouldnt that be easy to confirm?
If they are splitting royalties...shouldnt that be easy to confirm?
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No, It wouldn’t be easy. Probably, obongo gets them and pays Ayers. OR, he stopped paying him, or maybe he never did. Maybe now that the book has made a lot of money, Ayers is feeling a bit rejected. Maybe obongo won’t let him come to the WH and he feels used. Maybe Ayers isn’t happy the Communism isn’t happening faster. It sounds like someone peed in Ayers Cheerios.
Or, he was just being sarcastic and an ah by saying try to prove it. “I wrote it”( you know it, everyone knows it, but you will never prove it).
Anonymous ghostwriters are generally paid by the word by the publisher or the principal or the agent for the principal. They do not share in the royalties as they do not own the copyright. Technically they don't exist. I suspect that if Ayers wrote the book, there was a non-disclosure clause in the contract which would prohibit Ayers from claiming authorship.
Oh ho ho, Ayers didn't write this for free. Obama got the royalties but I am sure Ayers was or is being paid in his own way somehow.
I think what Ayers was saying is that Obama is getting the royalties, not Ayers, and he’s a little PO’ed about it, and is telling Leary if she proves it he would be willing to split the royalties with her.
Sounds like Michelle did her homework in burying the evidence.