Business magazine Forbes
recently reported the past year’s top-earning
authors.
Totals include earnings from print,
ebook, and audiobook sales, plus TV and movie earnings.
James Patterson, $90 million
Dan Brown, $28 million
Nora Roberts, $23 million
Danielle Steel, $22 million
Janet Evanovich, $20 million
Jeff Kinney, $17 million
Veronica Roth, $17 million
John Grisham, $17 million
Stephen King, $17 million
Suzanne Collins, $16 million
J. K. Rowling, $14 million
George R.R. Martin, $12 million
David Baldacci, $11 million
Rick Riordan, $10 million
E.L. James, $10 million
Gillian Flynn, $9 million
John Green, $9 million
That
represents a lot of books, but just the tip of the publishing
iceberg.
5 comments:
OK, so if I get to be someone on this awesome list, I would want to be Rick Riordan. His books are so so good and I can read them to my sons. Way to go Rick!
Thanks for posting this Andy, way I look at it, our chances are a lot better than playing the lottery! Joseph Max Lewis
I read somewhere that there are approx. 100 authors in the US that are considered making a lucrative living from writing. Does that sound about right?
When we think there is no money to be made...obviously there is. :-) Just keep swimming- just keep swimming!
One word. Wow.
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