Is there anyone in publishing who can say, for a typical book deal with a politician like Comey, what 600K in sales means in terms of earnings for him?
It used to be 10% on the first so many copies, 12 1/2 percent for the next level, and 15% thereafter. Say 5,000, 10,000, 15,000 are the brackets.
Every contract can be different, however, and I haven’t been in that part of book publishing for a long time. That’s % of retail price. Safe to say Comey’s book was quickly in the third bracket. You do the math. I’ll go out and get the Pepto-Bismol.