Top 10 earning authors 2017

1. J. K. Rowling – 95 mil. USD
2. James Patterson – 87 mil. USD
3. Jeff Kiney – 21 mil. USD
4. Dan Brown – 20 mil. USD
5. Stephen King – 15 mil. USD
6. John Grisham – 14 mil. USD
6. Nora Roberts – 14 mil. USD
8. Paula Hawkins – 13 mil. USD
9. E.L. James – 11,5 mil. USD
10. Danielle Steel – 11 mil. USD
10. Rick Riordan – 11 mil. USD

ok

how does jk rowling still make that much money

I think I read Stephen King once.

it's like looking at a charity shop bookcase

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

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

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

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

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

Merchandise and licensing

The poor starving artist.

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

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

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

> swimmed

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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.

>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.

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