Vincent Bugliosi - More radical than you'd expect

[Martin Weidmann]

I gave you the answer.  You just didn't like it.  Again, do you think there was a huge market for a 1600+ page book on the JFK assassination?  If not, why do you think the publisher paid for it?  Why don't you try to provide an answer for once instead of playing the endless contrarian?  Publishers often publish books that they know will not make any money.  They have plenty of rubes who will buy best sellers.  That allows them the luxury of publishing more intellectual books that appeal to a smaller group.  They may have received positive media press for the Bugs book.  He was a big name but they certainly didn't expect to sell many copies.

Publishers often publish books that they know will not make any money.

What a hilarious BS! 

Bugs spends years writing a book to "reclaim history" and he does so in the knowledge that hardly anybody will read it because it won't sell and a publisher, who is in the business of selling books, throws away a six figure advance to Bugs for a book he knows won't sell.

And to you that somehow makes sense?

On what planet do you live?

[Martin Weidmann]

I don't have to have an idea as to why Bugliosi wrote his book: He told us himself, fool.

In the meantime:
> No frustration required on my part, let alone an 'increasing level' of same, Sluggo.
> No point arguing about who killed who (so-to-speak), when said who killed who was witnessed doing just that @Tippit, while Rosetta-stoning Kennedy in the process, Mr Pretend-Lawyer.

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

Btw pull the other one....

[Richard Smith]

Publishers often publish books that they know will not make any money.

What a hilarious BS! 

Bugs spends years writing a book to "reclaim history" and he does so in the knowledge that hardly anybody will read it because it won't sell and a publisher, who is in the business of selling books, throws away a six figure advance to Bugs for a book he knows won't sell.

And to you that somehow makes sense?

On what planet do you live?

I guess that I missed your explanation as to why the publisher would pay him for a 1600+ page book on the JFK assassination?  You think it was to make money?  LOL.  How much money did they make on this 8lb book?  It's a common practice in the publishing and movie industry.  They can make a few profit whales that allow them to finance projects that have artistic or intellectual merit but will not make money.   

[Charles Collins]

Not everything is strictly about money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reclaiming_History



In 2007, Bugliosi told Cynthia McFadden of ABC News that in the preceding seven years, he had devoted 80 to 100 hours per week working on the book.[3]


In discussing publication of this version in a 2009 interview with Patt Morrison of the Los Angeles Times, Bugliosi described Reclaiming History as his magnum opus. He said it was the work of which he was most proud.[11] Comparing its sales to those for his 1974 bestseller Helter Skelter, he said to Morrison, "if you want to make money, you don't put out a book that weighs ​7 1⁄2 pounds and costs $57 and has over 10,000 citations and a million and a half words."[11]

[Martin Weidmann]

Not everything is strictly about money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reclaiming_History



In 2007, Bugliosi told Cynthia McFadden of ABC News that in the preceding seven years, he had devoted 80 to 100 hours per week working on the book.[3]


In discussing publication of this version in a 2009 interview with Patt Morrison of the Los Angeles Times, Bugliosi described Reclaiming History as his magnum opus. He said it was the work of which he was most proud.[11] Comparing its sales to those for his 1974 bestseller Helter Skelter, he said to Morrison, "if you want to make money, you don't put out a book that weighs ​7 1⁄2 pounds and costs $57 and has over 10,000 citations and a million and a half words."[11]

And yet, he obtained a six figure sum as advance. Not bad for somebody who doesn't want to make money! You LN lot are hilarious.

[Charles Collins]

And yet, he obtained a six figure sum as advance. Not bad for somebody who doesn't want to make money! You LN lot are hilarious.

Six figures can mean anything from one to almost ten million dollars. Do you know the amount? I would suggest that for a high powered attorney’s lifestyle, one million dollars for essentially seven years of his life would not be THE incentive. And that is the message that Bugliosi was conveying when he said: "if you want to make money, you don't put out a book that weighs ​7 1⁄2 pounds and costs $57 and has over 10,000 citations and a million and a half words."

However, there were potentially more sales in a shorter, less expensive book. And some royalty money in a movie:

In 2008, Bugliosi published a shorter paperback edition of this book, titled Four Days in November: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. It concentrated on the events of the assassination and aftermath. This version was adapted for the movie Parkland (2013). A second edition of his paperback was issued as Parkland (2013), to tie into the movie's release.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reclaiming_History

[Martin Weidmann]

Six figures can mean anything from one to almost ten million dollars. Do you know the amount? I would suggest that for a high powered attorney’s lifestyle, one million dollars for essentially seven years of his life would not be THE incentive. And that is the message that Bugliosi was conveying when he said: "if you want to make money, you don't put out a book that weighs ​7 1⁄2 pounds and costs $57 and has over 10,000 citations and a million and a half words."

However, there were potentially more sales in a shorter, less expensive book. And some royalty money in a movie:

In 2008, Bugliosi published a shorter paperback edition of this book, titled Four Days in November: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. It concentrated on the events of the assassination and aftermath. This version was adapted for the movie Parkland (2013). A second edition of his paperback was issued as Parkland (2013), to tie into the movie's release.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reclaiming_History

Hilarious.

I would suggest that for a high powered attorney’s lifestyle, one million dollars for essentially seven years of his life would not be THE incentive. And that is the message that Bugliosi was conveying when he said: "if you want to make money, you don't put out a book that weighs ​7 1⁄2 pounds and costs $57 and has over 10,000 citations and a million and a half words."


Who cares what Bugs claimed his incentive was. The question is what commercial publishing house is going to pay upwards from a million dollars in advance for a book that is not expected to sell?

I really would like to know the name of that publisher, so I can contact him about this book I'm going to write and for which a million in advance will do nicely.