{"id":8275,"date":"2013-03-18T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8275"},"modified":"2013-03-18T06:55:44","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T10:55:44","slug":"the-economics-of-topping-a-best-selling-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-economics-of-topping-a-best-selling-list\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Topping A Best-Selling List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/031813_1052_TheEconomic1.png\" width=\"639\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve previously covered the lengths that people go to, to make it onto <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-economics-of-best-seller-lists\/\">best-seller lists<\/a>. Now Patrick Wensink writes that it&#8217;s probably not worth the effort:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wensink made just $12,000 after having the book that was number six on the list of best-selling books in America.<\/li>\n<li>This is despite the book being ahead of the Hunger Games on the list \u2013 and not far behind 50 Shades of Grey.<\/li>\n<li>It made it that far up the list by selling 4,000 copies.<\/li>\n<li>The disappointing amount is likely why most well-known authors continue to be professors at university.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the amount that other authors have made, what Wensink did with the money and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2013\/03\/15\/hey_amazon_wheres_my_money\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2013\/03\/15\/hey_amazon_wheres_my_money\/\">Salon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve previously covered the lengths that people go to, to make it onto best-seller lists. Now Patrick Wensink writes that it&#8217;s probably not worth the effort: Wensink made just $12,000 after having the book that was number six on the list of best-selling books in America. This is despite the book being ahead of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8275","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\/03\/031813_1052_TheEconomic1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8275","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=8275"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8280,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8275\/revisions\/8280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}