What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[grumbler]

Besides the royalties for authors are only a small part of the sales price. Way under 20%, even for top authors, IIRC. For digital sales it's probably higher.

For hardback books, the royalties are usually 15% of list price, so Bolton would get $3 per book sold.  eBook royalties are usually 25%, so Bolton would get a bit more than $4 per ebook sold.

[Syt]

Besides the royalties for authors are only a small part of the sales price. Way under 20%, even for top authors, IIRC. For digital sales it's probably higher.

For hardback books, the royalties are usually 15% of list price, so Bolton would get $3 per book sold.  eBook royalties are usually 25%, so Bolton would get a bit more than $4 per ebook sold.

Thanks. I'm sure he also received a generous advance payment on his royalties for "motivation."

[grumbler]

Besides the royalties for authors are only a small part of the sales price. Way under 20%, even for top authors, IIRC. For digital sales it's probably higher.

For hardback books, the royalties are usually 15% of list price, so Bolton would get $3 per book sold.  eBook royalties are usually 25%, so Bolton would get a bit more than $4 per ebook sold.

Thanks. I'm sure he also received a generous advance payment on his royalties for "motivation."

Yep.  He got a $2 million advance, which is likely to exceed any royalties he would get.

[alfred russel]

I paid $6 for the Kindle version. If that makes him rich, okay? Also, he was never subpoenaed, and still worked for Trump at the time.

Do I like the guy? No. Do I think he has something worth saying? Yes, yes I do.

Sounds like it is going to make him extremely wealthy. He will probably sell a few million books.

Less than 20 books a year sell a million copies, and most of them are fiction.  Fear did it in 2018, but Bolton is no Bob Woodward.

Selling books in a single year, and selling them over a lifetime, are not the same.

[Syt]

Selling books in a single year, and selling them over a lifetime, are not the same.

I doubt that all those "tell all" books have long staying power. I'm willing to bet they'll make 90% of their sales in the first year and then quickly fizzle out. People want to read "the dirt", and once that's common knowledge thanks to dozens and hundreds of reviews and analyses, the interest will die.

[Tonitrus]

Here's some surprising news: top Navy officials recommend Cpt Crozier (formerly of the USS Theodore Roosevelt) be re-instated.

Article mentions that Trump has softened on the captain after the social media attention the case gathered, so it might actually happen.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/us/politics/coronavirus-navy-roosevelt-brett-crozier.html?smid=tw-share

Guess not...

In major reversal, Navy opts to uphold firing of aircraft carrier captain who warned about coronavirus outbreak

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/19/politics/uss-roosevelt-investigation/index.html

[Barrister]

Besides the royalties for authors are only a small part of the sales price. Way under 20%, even for top authors, IIRC. For digital sales it's probably higher.

For hardback books, the royalties are usually 15% of list price, so Bolton would get $3 per book sold.  eBook royalties are usually 25%, so Bolton would get a bit more than $4 per ebook sold.

Thanks. I'm sure he also received a generous advance payment on his royalties for "motivation."

Yep.  He got a $2 million advance, which is likely to exceed any royalties he would get.

In the court case wherein Trump is trying to prevent Bolton's book from being released, they mentioned that 200,000 copies have been printed.

[The Larch]

Besides the royalties for authors are only a small part of the sales price. Way under 20%, even for top authors, IIRC. For digital sales it's probably higher.

There's actually been really interesting twitter threads in light of BLM of different authors revealing their royalty cut and advances - largely because if it's not public then it's difficult to know if there is a difference. Obviously this isn't the fault of the authors, but there is an unsurprisingly large gulf (especially on advances) between white men and black women.

Over here Spanish authors looking at that mostly had the same finding, which was "Wait, they are getting paid in advance???".

[viper37]

Religious liberty being over will protect us from worries of mass imposition of Sharia Law which I was always told was coming. I would think conservatives would be happy about that.

Ceci est mon corps, ceci est mon sang... we need our church wine to be true Christians.  Sharia law will not permit us wine, hence it's evil.  Can you imagine a catholic religious service without the priest drinking cheap wine?  I can't. 
Hence why Islam is an evil, evil, religion.

EDIT: plus, pork would be outlawed   Millions of people would lose their jobs accross the Mid-West and the Simpsons would be outlawed   Nope, no true fanatical Christian would be fine with any law that emulates 95% of their vision of society.  "Give me 100% of give me death!" they used to say when was America was still great.

[viper37]

And they ran 88 ads on June 17th, because of course they did.

"Dangerous MOBS of far-left groups are running through our streets and causing absolute mayhem."

Hey...thats...a certain amount of words.

How does it feel living in a war zone?  Can you better relate to Syrians and Irakis now?  Do you think the Russians will come and rescue you from the terrorist mobs the same way they rescued the Syrians?  I hear they are quite satisfied of the Russian intervention.  Those that still lives and intend to keep on living, at least.

Stay safe!

[viper37]

I mean how much lower can you go?

Please, stop.  Just stop.  Don't encourage him.

[Syt]

Navy upholds firing of Crozier, the Cpt of the Theodore Roosevelt.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/19/navy-fires-brett-crozier-aircraft-carrier-coronavirus-329716

[viper37]

It's possible it is just a coincidence that Trump used the Nazi symbol for labelling left wing political "deviant" groups, in labelling a left wing "deviant" group.  I would be more confident in accepting the coincidental explanation were it not for the fact that someone on Trump's team is feeding him lines from George Wallace.

Trump probably did not know the signification of the red triangle.  But he didn't come up with the idea by himself.  So someone in his team knew.

[Tamas]

Navy upholds firing of Crozier, the Cpt of the Theodore Roosevelt.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/19/navy-fires-brett-crozier-aircraft-carrier-coronavirus-329716

How does it work, isn't Trump the C-i-C? If he orders his removal can they even refuse?

[viper37]

Over here Spanish authors looking at that mostly had the same finding, which was "Wait, they are getting paid in advance???".

Seems to be the norm in anglo-saxon publishing, books&music.  Not that artists receive anything after their album tops the charts in foreign countries, since there are so many, many expenses not covered by their contract...  Don't know how it is for others, but the advance being the last payment they ever received was the norm for video game developpers back in the early 2000s.