The consensus of publishers interviewed by the AP’s Hillel Italie is the President Bush should not be in any hurry to look for a book deal after leaving office. Knopf’s Paul Bogaards says, “Given how the public feels about him right now, I think patience would probably be something that I would encourage.” Jon Karp at Twelve points out that, even if there is a hardy domestic market for a Bush book, foreign publishers will not rush to buy rights the way they did for Bill Clinton’s memoir. “I don’t think Bush can get the kind of money Clinton did […]
