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Mar. 11th, 2009 08:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ksmithI haven't read The Time Traveler's Wife, but it did sell rather well. Well enough for Scribner to pay Audrey Niffenegger $4.8 million for her next book.
"It is an especially significant sum at a time of retrenchment and economic uncertainty in the publishing world."
Just...wow. And for skiffy, yet.
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UPDATE: dip into the Times article. It's the "only" in front of the $100,000 (The amount that Niffenegger was paid for TTTW) that gets to me. Yes, I know--mainstream and genre are different worlds. I know.
"It is an especially significant sum at a time of retrenchment and economic uncertainty in the publishing world."
Just...wow. And for skiffy, yet.
By way of Mediabistro.
UPDATE: dip into the Times article. It's the "only" in front of the $100,000 (The amount that Niffenegger was paid for TTTW) that gets to me. Yes, I know--mainstream and genre are different worlds. I know.
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Date: 2009-03-11 04:57 pm (UTC)I'll just nod along. The real issue here is that most writers are severely underpaid, not that one writer may be getting overpaid.
I read the book, I really enjoyed it. But I've read plenty of other novels in a similar vein that had the GENRE stamp on them that were just as good, if not better, and I'm pretty sure those writers would have been happy with an ONLY $100,000 advance.