NEW YORK (AP)--Filmmaker-actress Penny Marshall has a book deal with a fresh twist: the editor is Amazon.com.
Officer of Marshall, Dan Strone, announced Tuesday that the online retailer would release memoir "my mother had Nuts" of Marshall in the fall of 2012. Marshall played in the 1970s sitcom "Laverne and Shirley" and continued to direct these hits of big screen such as "Big" and "A League of their own". Strone, Marshall also wrote on her marriage to Rob Reiner, his friendship with John Belushi and his fight against lung cancer and brain in 2009.
"I can not I am delighted by the Yankees lose, or are not being yet a season of basketball, but I am excited about writing this book," Marshall said in a statement. "" "". People always asked me how I have the Bronx in Hollywood, so I thought it was time to say how this happened. I have had many lives (not in the sense of Shirley MacLaine) and you'll hear on all. Just, don't expect the revenue. I'm cooking. ?
Strone told Associated Press that offers several publishers of the book, but Amazon "won the auction. He refused to provide financial, but said details that offer the Amazon was "significantly" and also proposed a much higher royalty on eBooks that 25 per cent traditionally given by the publishers.
"It was a decision whether to go with old school or new school", said Strone, CEO of Trident Media Group.
Amazon, which has gradually expanded its publishing activities, recently signed an agreement with self-help bestseller author Timothy Ferris. Competing booksellers, concerned to assist a competitor, have expressed strong reservations on the sale of books published by Amazon.
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