trp biz

[Doug Millison]

Since they all appear to have achieved perennial backlist bestseller  
status - in print continuously, steady sales, foreign language  
versions, reprints with new covers, taught in college lit courses &  
etc., I imagine that Pynchon receives generous advances for his books  
and otherwise manages to profit from them and live the NYC life to  
which he's grown accustomed on Manhattan's Upper West Side if that's  
where he still lives.  If the publisher hasn't yet earned back the ATD  
advances, chances are very good that over time it will be a money  
maker, imo.  I'd also be surprised to learn that he hasn't earned $  
over the years via film rights options.  But I don't know of any TRP  
endorsement deals, unless that's how you might interpret some or all  
of the book cover support quotes he has supplied over the years.