Glenn Beck stars in publishing deal

[TomClash]

Source: Crains

Glenn Beck and his longtime publisher Simon & Schuster have launched a multi-imprint publishing partnership, the company announced Monday.

The conservative talk show host will work in a variety of formats, producing nonfiction books, original audio books and e-books, as well as titles for children and young adults. The works will be published by various imprints within Simon & Schuster, including its children’s and audio divisions.

Mr. Beck’s agreement calls for sharing costs and profits with the publisher, and won’t require negotiating advances for each new project. The arrangement, which Simon & Schuster also has with Stephen King, requires less upfront investment on the part of the pubilsher and offers potentially greater returns for the author.

“This partnership gives me the incredible freedom to publish books across multiple platforms and for all different ages,” Mr. Beck said in a statement.

Simon & Schuster will put out three titles this year by Mr. Beck, who has become one of the CBS Corp. division’s best selling authors. Both his 2008 novel, The Christmas Sweater, and his 2007 polemic An Inconvenient Book were No. 1 bestsellers.

The first book under the new arrangement will be an audio original, read by Mr. Beck, titled America’s March to Socialism. It will be released this month.

Read more: http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20090504/FREE/905049981

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Now we know who will write the sequel to "My Pet Goat."

This guy makes me wretch.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

1. Titles for Children...

[PatrynXX]

10. Teagan Presley would write better titles for children.

Violent man vs porn star. Yeah... brainwashing children.

[Turbineguy]

2. It's money

his idiot follows can't spend on guns.

[truthisfreedom]

3. The Pet Goat.

just sayin'.

[Crowman1979]

4. That's it! I'm doing a boycott on simon and schuster!

Well I go the library and buy my books used, but are there any good indie publishers? And are Feral House books any good?

[SpiralHawk]

7. Ptoooey on Simon & Republicon Homelander - I see where they are coming form, and

will also boycott their HATE publishing program

Shame on them --

My prophecy: like all things Homelander and anti-American, this will ultimately be an Epic FAIL

[depakid]

5. Symptomatic of America's continuing decline

[democrat2thecore]

13. Yep! I got into an argument with Beck at a local Borders

He was here last year signing his Christmas book called The Christmas Sweater or whatever it is. I stood in line for 45 minutes just to challenge him on something he had said a week or so before. He got red-faced and actually kinda blew up at me in front of all these people that didn't know of his political stuff at all - just his little book. Some of them seemed shocked the same guy that could have written that Christmas Sweater book could have such a temper. It was hilarious.

[Crowman1979]

17. Good Job!

:fistbump:

[saigon68]

20. He is a drunken ass-clown

I guess the sheep like to look at his vapid face

[Crowman1979]

21. BTW, what the hell was Beck doing at Borders, of all places?

I mean that place is known for supporting progressive authors. It started in Ann Arbor for christ's sake! The home of the Hash Bash.

[dgauss]

6. Yes, let's raise our children on the teachings of Glenn Beck because

there's just not enough freaky craziness in the world.

[phantom power]

8. The thought of that man involved in children's literature makes me very angry.

[stillcool]

9. I just ran across one of his novels...

in the new book section at the local library. I had to look at the inside jacket to make sure it was the same Glenn Beck, and sure enough there was is mug. I didn't read what is was about.

[blueclown]

11. There is a typo in the article.

It should be fiction, not nonfiction.

[democrat2thecore]

12. He is the worst of the worst of the worst - arghhhhh. -nt

[SalmonChantedEvening]

14. Suggested titles:

The Lord of the Fools

Great Expectorations

Buy This Book! You're Too Stupid Not To!

Move Over Ann Coulter, This Bulk Buy Warehouse Is Mine!

Crazy and on Fox

No Rodeo for this Clown

Making Billo Look Almost Sane: The Glen Beck Story

:smoke:

[TheCentepedeShoes]

15. Good titles

Is "Buy This Book" a take on Abbie Hoffmann's "Steal This Book?"
I had a copy of that once but someone borrowed...er, stole it.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

16. I'll call it an unintentional homage.

:hi: :hug: :)

[underpants]

18. Does S&S know that this guy is about to publicly become unhinged?

stay WAAAAAAAAY away from Beck on 9/12, he is going to "tell us what he has been working on" :scared:

[CBHagman]

19. To paraphrase "Airhead" by Thomas Dolby...

...before he signs any contracts, he'll have to learn to read.