The Unified Field Theory of Late Pynchon, first draft

[Mark Kohut]

Here's a real possibility that opens a different window on P's earnings.

Very, very often when the sales of one book do not "earn out" in royalties the amount 'advanced' then the next book's royalties might be "pooled" against the unearned royalties of Book One. 

Depends, of course, on contracts, revised contracts, etc....Against the Day, if it did not "earn out" is therefore still 'earning back' its advance as copies, mostly paperback now, continue to sell...and will...

BUT, it is entirely posssible that TRP received NO MORE, or very little, MONEY for Inherent Vice!.....that its earned royalties will be deducted from that formerly advanced money.......

Money that NEVER had to be paid back whether TRP handed new books to Penguin or not.......................

--- On Wed, 7/22/09, Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com>
> Subject: RE: The Unified Field Theory of Late Pynchon, first draft
> To: markekohut at yahoo.com
> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 12:51 PM
> 
> << Pynchon received a lot of money---rumors abide---
> for Against the Day, which did not earn out, as they say in
> publishing. >>More info on this?<< His publisher
> wanted AtD-- remember "most accessible"--to sell and sell,
> maybe even bestsel>>Really? Maybe they ought to have
> devised some sort of marketing strategy! As I recall, there
> wasn't even a website for ATD. In fact their marketing was
> so piss poor that Doug even came up with teh theory that
> their non-advertising *was* advertising, that they were
> playing a game of genius 'viral' marketing.IV may be a book
> to bring P a wider readership. But how are people gonna
> *know* it's a more accessible work? Possibly P still holds
> his publisher back from certain types of marketing? And
> obviously he ain't gonna start Twittering any time
> soon.....
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