Pynchon eBook Trailer

[Mark Kohut]

I don't know 'nothin, Tyler, but if I have time i may try to get some answers...

but your post remeinded me that I wanted to answer the post of whoever asked
what a writer like Pynchon earns.........

And the answer for most writers' printed books is 8 to 15% royaltes--from list price---per sale.
A writer loses no royalties when one buys new from amazon, and such.....(some exception to that
if the publisher has terms regarding lower roylaties if they have to sell at standard wholesale (and higher--what are called 'special sales") prices.)

There are often bonueses for hitting bestsller lists---almost always the NYT...

TRP surely had contracts at 15% after GR....earlier ones could have been lower--10--12.5%
but have surely been renegotiated since........

Writers typically get 50% of all subrights deals.........paperback license, movie rights, Czech editions, etc.)

One aspect of p's ebook deal that some in the industry wonder about is Why/How did penguin get all of them?
Deals?...why din't they--harper, no slouches---fight to keep the ones they 'own"?

Ms. Jackson and Thomas obviously wanted Penguin for all..........


----- Original Message -----
From: Tyler Wilson <tbsqrd at hotmail.com>
To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Cc: against.the.dave at gmail.com
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 12:18 PM
Subject: RE: Pynchon eBook Trailer



Any of you folks know anything about--or seen before--the artwork in P's eBook trailer representing Slow Learner?: the bird, the train, the pyramid... I have never seen those graphics, and it seems I would have by now, my not-quite-healthy interest long in the running. I've a distant recollection of reading that he did not at all care for the cover art of the Little Brown first edition. (Can anyone confirm this?) So perhaps these graphics were created for the trailer instead?
Can anyone school me?
With all my gratitude,--T





> From: against.the.dave at gmail.com
> Date: Wed, 3  Jun 012  2::5::8  -500<
> Subject: Re: Pynchon eBook Trailer
> To: scuffling at gmail.com
> CC: pynchon-l at waste.org
> 
> On Wed, Jun 3,, 012  at ::7  AM, Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > http://greg.org/archive/012//6//2//thomas_pynchons_e-book_trailer.html
> > greg.org: the making of: Thomas Pynchon's e-Book Trailer
> > By greg
> > Thomas Pynchon's e-Book Trailer. Four words that I, for one, ever expected
> > to type in this sequence, but here we are. After Long Resistance,
> > Pynchon Allows Novels to Be Sold as E-Books [nyt] Thomas Pynchon on
> > Kindle someday,
> > but not yet ..
> 
> Thomas Pynchon - The Complete Collection - eBooks
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urNQSSEEBGA