Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   do Americans want to know how Billions are stolen? Date:   12/18/2019 11:41:08 AM

Time will tell if the book makes money for the publisher.  A $65M advance plus publishing and promotion costs will require a lot of books to cover those costs.  And I'm not sure it will sell as well as you think it will.  But hey, it's their money to spend.  As for how the deal for the Common Core publishing was done, I really don't know.  But it does seem quite the coincidence that the winner is also the one to offer them a record setting advance.....