In an article published by Forbes August edition, James Patterson was a #1 world's most expensive list of 10 authors. He collected U.S. $ 70 million in the last 12 months. Total all revenues of the authors on the list was U.S. $ 270 million. Here's the list.
Number 1. James Patterson, with revenues of U.S. $ 70 million. Author of thriller novels that the last binding contract until the end of writing 17 books in 2012 with a value of U.S. $ 100 million. His wealth, including television contracts, comic books, and games. Former junior copywriter at J. Walter Thompson was involved in designing the cover and market his books. One out of every 17 novels that are purchased in the United States written by him, said Forbes. During the last two years he has scored U.S. $ 500 million to Hachette, the publisher.
# 2. Author of the Twilight, Stephenie Meyer, collect U.S. $ 40 million, although not to release a new book was in the year 2009. Approximately U.S. $ 7 million income came from the film adaptation Twilight series. Four of his Twilight series sold 40 million copies in the United States and 100 million worldwide.
# 3. Stephen King collect U.S. $ 34 million. Among its projects is a contract with DC Comics for the co-authored a series of comic books, works of music by John Mellencamp, and a serial drama with a network of SyFy Based on his novel, The Colorado Kid.
# 4. Danielle Steel with revenue of U.S. $ 32 million. He still had four books this year and will add to earnings of U.S. $ 7 million each book.
Number 1. James Patterson, with revenues of U.S. $ 70 million. Author of thriller novels that the last binding contract until the end of writing 17 books in 2012 with a value of U.S. $ 100 million. His wealth, including television contracts, comic books, and games. Former junior copywriter at J. Walter Thompson was involved in designing the cover and market his books. One out of every 17 novels that are purchased in the United States written by him, said Forbes. During the last two years he has scored U.S. $ 500 million to Hachette, the publisher.
# 2. Author of the Twilight, Stephenie Meyer, collect U.S. $ 40 million, although not to release a new book was in the year 2009. Approximately U.S. $ 7 million income came from the film adaptation Twilight series. Four of his Twilight series sold 40 million copies in the United States and 100 million worldwide.
# 3. Stephen King collect U.S. $ 34 million. Among its projects is a contract with DC Comics for the co-authored a series of comic books, works of music by John Mellencamp, and a serial drama with a network of SyFy Based on his novel, The Colorado Kid.
# 4. Danielle Steel with revenue of U.S. $ 32 million. He still had four books this year and will add to earnings of U.S. $ 7 million each book.
#5: Ken Follett with revenue of U.S. $ 20 million. His novel, The Pillars of the Earth, has been appointed to the TV series that aired starting in July with Donald Sutherland star. Follett's wife is the Minister of Culture under the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
#. 6. Dean Koontz with revenue of U.S. $ 18 million. His latest work, The Husband, came out in May and was chosen for Focus Features and Random House Films. All of the 44 novels are always included in the list of New York Times bestseller.
# 7. Janet Evanovich with revenue of U.S. $ 16 million, but its sales force is proportional to the James Patterson (about 20 million copies sold each year).
# 8. John Grisham with revenue of U.S. $ 15 million. Her latest book, Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer, is the first work aimed at the teen market. Earlier this year, all over 23 book titles were sold in electronic book format by Random House.
# 9. Nicholas Sparks with revenue of U.S. $ 14 million. One of the top novelist has sold 55 million books. The film that picked up her novel has supplemented his income of U.S. $ 300 million.
# 10. J.K. Rowling with revenue of U.S. $ 10 million. Although the era has passed, but her book sales still increase her income.
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