Don’t tell my Nook, my achey breaky Nook…
Billy Ray Cyrus, singer of a particularly overplayed country song and father of Miley “Hannah Montana” Cyrus, has landed a book deal with Amazon’s publishing arm for his memoirs, GalleyCat reports. Publication date is expected to be spring 2013 in both hardcover and e-book editions. The deal was brokered by Trident Media CEO Dan Strone, who also arranged the $800,000 deal for Penny Marshall’s memoirs.
As that anonymous publishing insider lamented a few weeks ago, Amazon is lining up some pretty big names for its publishing arm. What with bookstores bound and determined not to do Amazon any favors by carrying its books, it looks like an immovable object vs. irresistible force confrontation may come to pass within the next couple of years. I wonder who will blink first?
