Star salaries creeping into book business

CNN has an Interesting Look at some of the incredible money a few authors are making. Michael Crichton signed a two-book deal for $40 million, Stephen Carter sold his first and second novels for $4 million, Mary Higgins Clark got 5 books for $64 million, and of course there is Hillary Clinton\’s $8 million deal.

\”It\’s easy to blame the agents,\” says Farrar Straus & Giroux publisher Jonathan Galassi. \”But it\’s the publishers who throw these offers in the ring.\”