H.P. Albarelli has passed away.

[Anthony Thorne]

James, thanks for your response. The numbers I cited are Amazon listings of sales rankings (ie #1 is the top bestseller, #10 is in the top ten, and #400,000 has another 399,999 books on Amazon that are selling better than it). These are listed on each product page for every book on Amazon. I listed the rankings simply to note that Albarelli’s new book would probably do okay, and not hugely better or worse than many others. Earnings aren’t implied so I don’t know why you’re discussing people earning $400,000 from writing a JFK book. If DiEugenio and others were earning that much from a single book, they’d probably be writing a JFK volume every year, instead of once a twice a decade.

If I lived in the US I’d call Skyhorse for you and enquire, but I’m not going to pay for an international call out of hours for this subject (I did once chat to Jon Elinoff re his Colorado corruption investigation for two hours). As it is, call me an optimist but I expect to be reading Albarelli’s book in May or June - or, if some dumb publicist decides books sell better on anniversaries no matter how long the wait, November.

Chris Lightbown’s JFK book suffered much worse. I believe he wrote most of it, but age or research issues or both led to it never reaching the finish line. You can still see the cover solicited on Amazon though, years after it was first announced.