Adina Popescu
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History editor at Yale University Press
Holiday Gift Idea for fans of @hcrichardson.bsky.social: WEST FROM APPOMATOX, A Wall Street Journal Bestseller.
[30% off with code GIFT30]
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West from Appomattox
From the author of the popular "Letters from an American" newsletter: a sweeping story of how Northerners, Southerners, and Westerners together created mo...
yalebooks.yale.edu
December 1, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Holiday Gift Idea for fans of @hcrichardson.bsky.social: WEST FROM APPOMATOX, A Wall Street Journal Bestseller.
[30% off with code GIFT30]
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
[30% off with code GIFT30]
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Holiday Gift Idea for fans of @jbf1755.bsky.social: her first book, AFFAIRS OF HONOR.
"Demands the attention of everyone with a serious interest in the history of American politics."—Pauline Maier, Washington Post
[30% off with code GIFT30]
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
"Demands the attention of everyone with a serious interest in the history of American politics."—Pauline Maier, Washington Post
[30% off with code GIFT30]
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Affairs of Honor
A major reassessment of American political culture in the days of Jefferson, Hamilton, and Burr "[A] landmark study of Hamilton and the founders."—Jeff Sha...
yalebooks.yale.edu
December 1, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Holiday Gift Idea for fans of @jbf1755.bsky.social: her first book, AFFAIRS OF HONOR.
"Demands the attention of everyone with a serious interest in the history of American politics."—Pauline Maier, Washington Post
[30% off with code GIFT30]
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
"Demands the attention of everyone with a serious interest in the history of American politics."—Pauline Maier, Washington Post
[30% off with code GIFT30]
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
If the book retails for $25, each copy probably earns something like $3.00 in royalties (let's say 12% average on list price), so it would have to sell 666,666 copies to earn out the $2 mil. Sounds unlikely.
On the other hand the Obamas' books all sold way more than that so who knows?
On the other hand the Obamas' books all sold way more than that so who knows?
September 2, 2025 at 7:27 PM
If the book retails for $25, each copy probably earns something like $3.00 in royalties (let's say 12% average on list price), so it would have to sell 666,666 copies to earn out the $2 mil. Sounds unlikely.
On the other hand the Obamas' books all sold way more than that so who knows?
On the other hand the Obamas' books all sold way more than that so who knows?