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Breaking news: publishers’ math “fuzzy.” Film at 11.

March 18, 2007 Stephanie Leary Leave a Comment

The current issue of Entertainment Weekly has an amusing story about the court case between Clive Cussler and the studio who made Sahara. Here’s the part that made me fall out of my chair (emphasis mine):

More pointedly, though, the producers also accused the novelist of lying about how many fans he actually has. “Sahara didn’t get the audience it should have for two reasons, both of which are Mr. Cussler’s responsibility,” says Crusader’s lawyer Alan Rader. “First, before the film was made, he bad-mouthed it to his fans. And second, he didn’t have nearly as many fans as he claimed. He claimed he had sold 100 million books. Turns out that’s a lie.”

Actually, what Cussler’s publishers have been boasting about ââ

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