Top 10 earning authors 2017

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>>9917054
how does jk rowling still make that much money

>>9917054
I think I read Stephen King once.

>>9917054
it's like looking at a charity shop bookcase

>>9917078
I'm gonna guess from the movie that was released for the extended HP universe and the play or whatever that was released as a book

>>9917078
There is new special edition of her books like every 2 years.

>>9917087
It's missing 5000 interchangeable crime writers whose books all contain the words "dead" "bones" or "blood" in the title.

>>9917054
Stephen King is at 5? Fuck I always thought he swimmed in money.

>>9917396
Yes, but he is in top 10 probably for 30 years now.

>>9917078
Merchandise and licensing

>>9917396
The poor starving artist.

>>9917054
JAMES PATTERSON is the only author I know of who makes book commercials. They are kind of charming

>>9917625
He doesn't write. His intern assembly line does and he puts his name on it.

>>9917386
I work at a library and die a little every time someone checks out a book titled "Bones Never Die" or the like.

>>9917396
> swimmed

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>>9917078
I was at Kings Cross Station the other day where they have that cart going through the wall. It was £10 to get your photo taken at it. In the store it was like £5 for a pencil , £30 for a scarf, and £50 for a plastic wand

At least the literary genius Jeff Kinney made it.
Can't say much for the rest.

>>9917054
>genre fiction
Pathetic. What's the point of self-contained fluff YA stories with no greater purpose in mind than entertainment? Such self-serving vacuousness, a waste of mental faculties to which valuable active memory is commited.

>>9917396
He does, it's a list of how much they earned this year.