[Sca-cooks] 200,000 Dollar Cookbook on E-Bay

Johnna Holloway johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu
Mon Aug 29 10:16:36 PDT 2005


$200,000 is a very nice advance for a cookbook
by an unknown chef. Even if one throws in the publication
rights... Of course maybe he gets his satisfaction from being
able to say he posted it on E-Bay.
I have E-Bay sort from high price to low which is why I came across
it.

Johnnae


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>> http://cgi.ebay.com/RECIPES-OF-THE-HAMPTONS-THE-PONDS-THE-BAYS_W0QQitemZ4570858364QQcategoryZ378QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem 
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>> Hurry only one day left.
>> Johnnae 
>
> It looks like an interesting read but I'll pass thanks.  It seems to 
> include publication rights to his book, based upon his years as a chef 
> in the Hamptons, Long Island, NY which was submitted to a publisher in 
> the UK which took a lot of his money and vanished.  Vanity press 
> maybe? He got took.  I'll not do the same.
> Selene Colfox, crazed cookbook collector but not quite that crazed
>
>



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