Hamilton wins sports book of the year !

[DavePat]

Tyler Hamilton's recent best selling book wins British "Sports book of the Year" award

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/201...-the-year-2012_n_2195995.html?just_reloaded=1

 

[blackcat]

did Tugboat get a special mention?

toot toot.

What about his twin? The chimera? Lyler Hamilton.

tanning beds will give you skin cancer Hamilton

 

[del1962]

Here is the crux with Tyler's book

It will be a good book (confess I have not read it yet) that lifts the lid on what went on in cylcing

However he will be an ex-doper making good money out of selling his story, perhaps he should donate the proceeds to charity

I will wait for cheaper paper back version before purchasing or try second hand

 

[Dear Wiggo]

Here is the crux with Tyler's book

It will be a good book (confess I have not read it yet) that lifts the lid on what went on in cylcing

However he will be an ex-doper making good money out of selling his story, perhaps he should donate the proceeds to charity

I will wait for cheaper paper back version before purchasing or try second hand

Got any proof of this? Do you have any idea what % an author gets for a book? A co-author? You really think he predicted it would sell this well?

 

[del1962]

Got any proof of this? Do you have any idea what % an author gets for a book? A co-author? You really think he predicted it would sell this well?

Proof of what, that authors make money out of selling their books?

Do you really need proof of that, I would suggest it is self evident.

 

[Dear Wiggo]

Proof of what, that authors make money out of selling their books?

Do you really need proof of that, I would suggest it is self evident.

I would suggest you don't know what you're talking about.

 

[del1962]

I would suggest you don't know what you're talking about.

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[Dear Wiggo]

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An author usually gets a payment up front - so he would have got that regardless of sales, then a % of profits. But he's not the author, so the author royalties are split between Coyle and Hamilton.

If the book is $20, and the typical royalty is being paid ~4-10%, that's 0.80c - $2/book, split between the 2 authors, not counting discounted sales, etc.

Your complaint is Hamilton is making good money.

I doubt it.

I look forward to you demanding JV pay his salary to charity, as he is in exactly the same position: earning good money thanks to his doping as a professional cyclist.

 

[Cloxxki]

Here is the crux with Tyler's book

It will be a good book (confess I have not read it yet) that lifts the lid on what went on in cylcing

However he will be an ex-doper making good money out of selling his story, perhaps he should donate the proceeds to charity

I will wait for cheaper paper back version before purchasing or try second hand

I made sure I didn't let money flow from me to him for reading the book, as I've been a victim of dopers of his generation.
However we can acknowledge he did do a more than average job on the book, and clearly it wasn't written overnight. The fact checking and legal stuff to cover or let out cost a lot of effort on his part. A job in itself. Unfortunately still a job made possible by rising to fame by doping use, and then falling out of grace over the same.

 

[Alphabet]

I don't think he could have anticipated that it would sell so well. Also, the book was co-authored. He won't be making all that much money.

And so what if he's profiting from selling his story? If a mafioso got out of the mob and published a tell-all book or sold his story to a movie producer, would people be complaining that he's profiting from a life of crime?

 

[BroDeal]

The Economist names The Secret Race as one of its books of the year.

http://www.economist.com/news/books...-richard-burton-titian-rin-tin-tin-revolution