Vincent Bugliosi - More radical than you'd expect

[Charles Collins]

W. W. Norton & Company is the publisher. If you already have authored two or more #1 bestseller books you should have no problem getting that kind of money.

Sure, but Bugs wasn't writing this book for money, right?

No one has said that. I have already pointed out what Bugliosi said in response to comparing sales of Reclaiming History to his other books. I said that everything isn’t strictly about money.

[Bill Chapman]

As I said; you just can't help it... You need to reply, don't you? Such compulsion.... amazing!   

Such compulsion repulsion

[Richard Smith]

Are there pictures in it?

Hopefully there are lots of shots of the chicken sandwich.  Maybe there is a blurry photo of someone in a white suit in the TSBD doorway who could be Colonel Sanders.  He can be given a clever nickname like the "Chicken Man" or "Mr. Cluckenstein."

[Charles Collins]

Not wanting to be pedantic but six figures is less than one million, it could be as little as 100,000

Thanks Dan, my mistake. That’s peanuts for a multi #1 best seller author.

[Martin Weidmann]

Thanks Dan, my mistake. That’s peanuts for a multi #1 best seller author.

But it's still a lot of money for a book that isn't expected to sell.
Btw I don't know what the exact figure was, but I recall reading somewhere that it was over a million

[Charles Collins]

But it's still a lot of money for a book that isn't expected to sell.
Btw I don't know what the exact figure was, but I recall reading somewhere that it was over a million

If it was over a million, it would be a seven figure number. Not a six figure number, as you have been saying.

Also, the book does have a (low) best seller ranking, so it apparently was expected to sell enough to make it worthwhile for the publisher. The Bugliosi comment that I pointed out was in response to questions comparing this book’s sales to his earlier #1 best selling books. So it is all relative. I think he was also trying to say that the large amount of time he spent writing Reclaiming History was so great that he wasn’t expecting to ever be adequately compensated monetarily. If you calculate seven years of 80 to 100 hours per week, lets say average of 90, that’s 32,760 hours. If you multiply that by an average attorney’s fee of, lets say, $500 per hour (he would actually command much more), that equals $16,380,000. They would have to sell a lot of books to be able to pay Bugliosi that much money. He apparently was saying that his motivations included other things besides money.

[John Iacoletti]

That book was intended to rebut the loons who for decades have spread all manner of lies.

Well then it failed miserably, as Bugliosi was the loon spreading lies.