47 Bertelsmann, a German Publishing Giant that Owns the Entire US Publishing Industry, is Paying Millions for book deals to Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Amy Coney Barrett (www.gatestoneinstitute.org) posted 1 year ago by Jscholl17 1 year ago by Jscholl17 +47 / -0 A Radical Company is Paying Supreme Court Justices Millions Jackson received a $893,750 advance for her memoir and is now reporting $2 million in profits last year. These would be record numbers for a Supreme Court Justice's biography from a book that hardly anyone had noticed when it came out. And while books 18 comments share 18 comments share save hide report block hide replies
I think USAID money used to “buy” a bunch of those books.
...so it hits the NYT best seller list 5 minutes later.
That is the case in any part of the business world for the most part. A whole host of people are getting cash advances for books in various industries, many of them failures in their trades.