Forbes highest earners list adds three new authors

Forbes highest earners list adds three new authors

Sep 09 2014

Forbes have published their annual list of highest-earning authors (measured from June 2013 to June 2014). E.L. James, author of the 50 Shades books is still in the list, but not at the top, and some new names have joined - Veronica Roth, Gillian Flynn and John Green. To compile its figures, Forbes "looks at print, e-book and audiobook sales from Nielsen BookScan figures, consider TV and movie earnings and talk to authors, agents, publishers and other experts." The figures should be taken with a pinch of salt, for example, Publishers Lunch note that Forbes quantified John Green's sales of The Fault In Our Stars at about 1/4th of the rate stated by the publisher.

• James Patterson ($90 million)
• Dan Brown ($28 million)
• Nora Roberts ($23 million)
• Danielle Steel ($22 million)
• Janet Evanovich ($20 million)
• Jeff Kinney ($17 million)
• Veronica Roth ($17 million)
• John Grisham ($17 million)
• Stephen King ($17 million)
• Suzanne Collins ($16 million)
• J.K. Rowling ($14 million)
• George R.R. Martin ($12 million)
• David Baldacci ($11 million)
• Rick Riordan ($10 million)
• E.L. James ($10 million)
• Gillian Flynn ($9 million)
• John Green ($9 million)

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