Cash
Patrick Wensink had a best-selling novel on Amazon last summer. It got a nice boost when Jack Daniels sent the world’s nicest cease-and-desist letter and the letter went viral.
My book was the No. 6 bestselling title in America for a while, right behind all the different “50 Shades of Grey” and “Gone Girl.” It was selling more copies than “Hunger Games” and “Bossypants.”
In the end, he made $12,000. It’s not a story of fraud or theft or a lousy contract. He was selling more copies than Hunger Games, but he was selling all of 4000 copies.
Ouch.