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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on November 19, 2022 at 5:07pm

As I said elsewhere, if he is not aware of this he is an idiot. No one with a brain would allow management or lower management to make such a decision. And they don't do this sort of thing on their own, if so then they are idiots as well. Dylan is very aware of what he is doing, and the industry in general.

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Permalink Reply by Jason H on November 19, 2022 at 5:15pm

If he is aware, we are up to 17 different autopen templates.. At this point, it might have been easier if he had just signed the books and been done with it. Makes one wonder If those Alzheimer's rumors are true, maybe all of this is preparation for when he is no longer able to sign his name at all

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on November 19, 2022 at 6:15pm

It is more likely he is making money than to jump to Alzheimer's. That is one thing all entities involved in this have - they are there to make money.

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Permalink Reply by Nichole on November 19, 2022 at 5:34pm

He’s aware of it. 

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Permalink Reply by Findbooks on November 19, 2022 at 6:20pm

You cannot know that.

I expect he spends hundreds of thousands of dollars a month on paying his flunkeys to manage the minutiae of his life. And that is what it would be to him - mere details. Is that cool? No. 

But he is not Seamus Heaney. Books are a very small part of his portfolio. 

Who knows what medication and direction he is under?  Not me.

I have no particular affinity with him but I respect his legacy and it don't fit. This is corporate crapulism WRIT LARGE.

Let's hope he will become aware of it and visit every branch of Waterstones and Barnes & Noble to make up for it.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on November 19, 2022 at 6:27pm

"...Who knows what medication and direction he is under?  Not me...."

I would not suggest unknown medications before the likelihood of him doing business as usual, and that business is making money. He is already starting to sell another product as of two days ago. I suppose the chances of the book being ghostwritten are zero? 

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Permalink Reply by Findbooks on November 19, 2022 at 6:54pm

I wouldn't know but didn't he sell the rights to his songs for a bejillion dollars not long ago?

To my knowledge, authors receive about 2% royalties on average from book sales - after any advance has been recouped.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on November 19, 2022 at 6:58pm

I don't think so. I was offered 13% to write an R.M.S. Mauretania book by Tempus I believe it was.

Permalink Reply by Findbooks on November 19, 2022 at 7:31pm

To Eric

Cool - suggest you consider becoming a literary agent. 

Ian Rankin .- a British crime fiction writer, fairly well-known - told me he got 2.5% for paperbacks, 10% for hardcovers. That was in the 1990's, mind you - I guess the margins have improved.

Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on November 19, 2022 at 7:45pm

No one I know has ever received less than 10%. It is a specialty market and I was able to provide 100 unpublished candid photographs which must have had a lot to do with it. I turned it down.

Permalink Reply by Nichole on November 19, 2022 at 10:54pm

I’m sorry, have we met? 

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Permalink Reply by Nichole on November 19, 2022 at 10:55pm

I cannot know what? I wouldn’t have said something if I didn’t know it. I don’t speculate someone’s medical chart 

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