If you’re trying to say that publishers have to make bets, and some pay off and some don’t, that is of course true.You have no idea how these things work.
The Adventures of Pluto Nash movie grossed $7.1mil worldwide. Eddie Murphy was paid $20mil to star in it. Do the math, clearly Eddie Murphy is beholden to a foreign government, then, right?
The thing is nobody ever buys these politic memoirs but yet the advances are still strong. Andrew Cuomo’s “All Things Possible” sold a measly 2500 copies but he still got a $5M deal for his next book “America Crisis” which sold less than 50,000 copies.
There are countless examples of this.