Why doesn't our childish and petulant congress levy a 90% tax on that too? Yahoo is part of Verizon Media. YES.

another example Incredible. Contribute something of value, please.

I made a connection that wasn't there.

Once catalyzed it is easy to turn on any subject. Ebert would have to govern by coalition.

You figure you can set the price at $20, and you’re offering the author royalties of 10 percent of the book’s list price, so the author will receive $2 for every book sold. Posted by: joew22 | March 19, 2009 11:05 AM. He's payed based on performance of the book selling. Posted by: island1 | March 19, 2009 9:38 AM. This must really irk the followers of the Texas Moron who cannot even talk properly, much less read and write.

Posted by: VirginiaConservative | March 19, 2009 1:07 PM. Login to reply the answers.

Posted by: EarlC | March 19, 2009 7:57 AM, Posted by: nychap44 | March 19, 2009 6:57 AM, The Trail: A Daily Diary of Campaign 2008.

Analyst72/ He sure is doing a fine job concealing his brain since being elected. That's pithy and to the point. A Democratic mole hill of self promotion for profit does not equate with a Republican mountain of criminal neglect and manslaughter for profit. kevinschmidt - my apologies. Posted by: VirginiaConservative | March 19, 2009 1:07 PM. ", Posted by: kevinschmidt | March 19, 2009 4:05 PM. I think that is an honest question - especially given his exhortations to us all to give and cut back and volunteer. Try this test before you comment: what if [insert your favorite right-wing personality] did the same thing, how would I feel?

Eventually, they succeeded. ", Posted at 6:45 AM ET on Mar 19, 2009

Get past it, man. All I'm saying is: right-wing commentators, it's sufficient to say, "I hate Barack Obama." He did not help to throw this country into a deep recession and then ask the U.S. government to bail out multi million dollar bonuses for incompetence. It is glandular and unseeing. This money belongs to the American public let congress figure out how to reclaim it and we will use that as a model to get back AIG executive bonuses. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/books/obama-memoir-a-promised-land.html Posted by: mmourges | March 19, 2009 9:57 AM. It was an easy lie to sell. President Obama has authored two best-selling books, "Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance," published in 1995, and "The Audacity of Hope," published in 2006. When federal employees blew the whistle on this federal offense, they were demonized an fired, another federal offense. Obama got his book royalties because I decided to buy his books.

Posted by: thelaw1 | March 19, 2009 10:56 AM, Posted by: BenLaGuer | March 19, 2009 10:34 AM.

Michelle Obama's publisher said that her book "Becoming" has sold almost 10 million copies and could be the most successful memoir in history, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. What the Obamas’ $65 million book advance actually means, Joe Biden’s most surprising, and possibly important, answer of the debate. This is how capitalism works, so if you don't like it feel free to leave. Haliburton. Such a glorious righteous man at the helm of the second highest office in the land. Also, to split hairs, he said they were mind-numbingly "boring" not "hard to understand" :). Obama’s book, “ Becoming,” has sold more than 8.1 million units in the United States and Canada since it was published in the fall of 2018. Didn't do as well as Obama's.

And before Barack Obama became president, his books Dreams from My Father and The Audacity of Hope cemented his place as not just a politician who sells books on the side, but as an author of genuine literary merit. http://www.alternet.org/workplace/132155/does_america_face_the_risk_of_a_fascist_backlash_/, Posted by: kevinschmidt | March 19, 2009 6:39 PM, cowen: Posted by: COWENS99 | March 19, 2009 5:49 PM.

Do liberal books bear a special moral hazard that conservative books do not? Let's hope Obama really knuckles down on education reform.

I stand by my statement about the terms needing to be seperated, but your post wasn't an example of it. Or is Obama just bad because he's a more successful writer than Bush? What a refreshing change!

I thought you conservatives admired success and making money?

And why that’s probably fine with Biden and Trump, too.

"The deaths of [Staff Sergeant Christopher Lee] Everett and [Staff Sergeant Ryan] Maseth are among the 18 under review by the Pentagon's inspector general.

Soldiers died because of Halliburton's neglect and malfeasance, which is yet another federal offense.

I see the Nobamabots are out! (Her only title thus far, American Grown, is a coffee table book that didn’t have the opportunity to pull off any literary pyrotechnics.) Every setback in recovery -- and there would inevitably be many -- was met with hysterical demonizing of the left wing government. Please email us to report offensive comments. Before you comment. It's because some of them have something important to say and the means to communicate it to those interested. The 768-page book is the most anticipated presidential memoir in memory, as much or more because of the quality of the writing than for any possible revelations.

It’s not just that Barack Obama’s books sold well — although they did, with Dreams from My Father easily out-earning its $40,000 advance — but that they were widely considered to be well-written.

Barack and Michelle Obama each just sold a book in a joint deal that appears to be bigger than any previous presidential book deal in history. There were too many events to report in this writing but the end result was the new government failed and rather than loose power again the German Conservative Party placed the party and the control of the Country with Adolph Hitler , and the rest is History.

I hear Bush is going to publish a book. havin' more fun today than Edward Norton at a foreign grocery store. Posted by: BubbaRight | March 19, 2009 11:48 AM. Posted by: jacktheconqueror | March 19, 2009 1:10 PM. 1 decade ago. Biden raised nearly $4 million in one hour after the debate.

Change we can count on.

Oh, and if you don't want him making so much money from these books, go to the library or don't buy them.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Your Privacy Controls. The $65 million deal was a record-breaking amount for a presidential memoir…and it looks like that investment paid off: Michelle’s memoir, Becoming, sold over 10 million copies in the first five months of publication alone. otherwise you couldn't have made the statement above), Posted by: daler1 | March 19, 2009 3:30 PM. Now we know that at least one of those people is super rich (not unlike Pelosi).

By Garance Franke-Ruta Posted by: theobserver4 | March 19, 2009 11:08 AM. (Literary agents sometimes try to encourage that way of thinking.

Get real. Posted by: jacktheconqueror | March 19, 2009 2:25 PM.

Posted by: PartySandwich | March 19, 2009 12:27 PM, Cutting a new book deal just before taking office. How is the investment class paid? I'm guessing quite a few, but yeah, he definitely sold enough of them.

As I said in my previous post, no one died when Obama took his royalties. It isn’t only a presidential memoir by an extremely popular ex-president during a time when nostalgia for his administration is increasing.

You have never had a job - yet you are drenched with money. Senator, and in any case, when he wrote his autobiographies is completely irrelevant! Posted by: JaxMax | March 19, 2009 4:58 PM.

Please don't put words into my mouth, or try to oversimplify my position. Back to the matter on this page, I guess the question is: If Obama doesn't give part of his proceeds to charity, is he not rising to the challenges he's laid out for the American people? Posted by: carolinagirl2 | March 19, 2009 1:45 PM. Neither were in response to your post. What is going on here? Posted by: TheBabeNemo | March 19, 2009 4:41 PM.

It had been "stabbed in the back" by communists, traitors, and Jews. What for? Barack Obama Obama Earned Nearly $2.5 Million in Book Royalties in 2008.

lso, I forgot, because he is "Blavk" and doing all those things. Find out more about how we use your information in our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. i don't care how he earned his money....as long as HE doesn't cheat on his income taxes! Hullo, Obama wrote the very popular (and very good) "Dreams" well before he became a U.S. Bush is about to come out with his memoirs. Previous: Obama Drops Controversial Third-Party Billing Proposal for Veterans | Of Thee I Sing book. But here’s a very rough, extremely simplified idea of how a publisher calculates how much to pay an author and still make money.

That means it’s safe for you to offer the author an advance of $20,000 when you acquire the book. Or is it unless you're the President? Based on the sales history of other, similar books, you feel confident that you can sell 10,000 copies of the new book. For the book to “earn out,” as the Clintons’ books did, it has to sell so many copies that its royalties surpass the amount of the advance.