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Nov. 23rd, 2008 12:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ksmithI admit that I did visit fivethirtyeight.com a few times prior to the election (a few=lots). More power to Nate Silver for nailing a good book deal, but this line got me:
The pricetag, we hear, is above $600,000 but below $1 million—a healthy sum even though it's paying for two books rather than just one.
It's a healthy sum for five books, even. Or ten. Twenty.
I know. I'm speaking from the genre side fo the fence, not up-to-the-minute nonfiction, which pays much better on average. But that "even though" got to me. The "rather than just one" didn't help.
The pricetag, we hear, is above $600,000 but below $1 million—a healthy sum even though it's paying for two books rather than just one.
It's a healthy sum for five books, even. Or ten. Twenty.
I know. I'm speaking from the genre side fo the fence, not up-to-the-minute nonfiction, which pays much better on average. But that "even though" got to me. The "rather than just one" didn't help.
