{"id":10206,"date":"2013-12-05T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T14:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10206"},"modified":"2013-12-05T07:50:36","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T12:50:36","slug":"the-economics-of-ghostwriting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-economics-of-ghostwriting\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Ghostwriting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/120513_1247_TheEconomic1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alex Mayyasi took an in depth look at ghostwriting \u2013 the practice whereby a book is written by an individual other than the person it is normally credited to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>According to the dictionary an author is &#8220;a person who has written something or a person who starts or creates something, such as a plan or idea&#8221;. Readers normally think of authors in the first sense while publishers prefer to focus on the second.<\/li>\n<li>There are four tiers of ghostwriters. The lowest tier can be found on freelancing websites and earn around $10,000 for each ghostwritten book, and are usually required to sign a non-disclosure agreement.<\/li>\n<li>On the highest tier are authors with a history of writing multi-million dollar hits. They&#8217;re paid in the millions, usually receive a share of the profits, as well as some writing credit.<\/li>\n<li>Some are surprised by how quickly ghostwriters can churn out books \u2013 it normally takes them around four months to finish one.<\/li>\n<li>Celebrities hire ghostwriters because writing authoring can be lucrative. The bidding for the rights to Angelina Jolie&#8217;s autobiography are rumored to have reached $50 million.<\/li>\n<li>They also might not find it worth their time to write their own \u2013 especially when a ghostwriter will likely do a better job of writing it.<\/li>\n<li>According to experts ghostwriting is a billion dollar industry. 25% of the New York Times&#8217; nonfiction bestseller list is thought to be ghostwritten, as well as virtually all celebrity books.<\/li>\n<li>Readers usually react negatively to the idea of ghostwriters. Yet nobody minds that Obama doesn&#8217;t write his own speeches, Jon Stewart doesn&#8217;t write all his own jokes, celebrities don&#8217;t design the fashions that have their names attached to them, or that research assistants write the articles that Professors get credit for.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The full article takes a comprehensive look at the industry, and its past, present and future. It also reveals several books that you probably didn&#8217;t know were ghostwritten, and tips about how one can get into the business. Read it <a href=\"http:\/\/priceonomics.com\/the-ghostwriting-business\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/priceonomics.com\/the-ghostwriting-business\/\">Priceonomics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Mayyasi took an in depth look at ghostwriting \u2013 the practice whereby a book is written by an individual other than the person it is normally credited to: According to the dictionary an author is &#8220;a person who has written something or a person who starts or creates something, such as a plan or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/120513_1247_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10206"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10209,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10206\/revisions\/10209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}