Are people willing to shell out hard-earned money to find out how evil Goldman Sachs is? Publishing house Hachette thinks so, betting $1.5 million on a book from infamous ex-GS employee and NY Times op-ed writer Greg Smith. more ›

Hers is a tale no one would want to call their own, but it seems the four years Amanda Knox spent imprisoned in Italy will pay off in the form of a $4 million dollar book deal. Bet you didn't see that coming, eh? After an intense bidding war with multiple publishing houses, the 24-year old American exchange student, who was acquitted of the murder of her British roommate just a little over four months ago, has finally settled on a book agreement with HarperCollins. more ›

The NY Sun reports that Jones received a $40K advance for her booked titled, "Untitled Novel" and Marchand received $75K for hers, called "Broken Silence" -- the former is four years late, and the latter is two years overdue. C'mon ladies, even 50 Cent turned in a manuscript for the publishing house! However, maybe they should be cut some slack since they each did some jail time when they (or a ghost writer) could have been laying down some ink about their lives. And besides, Kim was busy writing her other book, The Price of Loyalty, due out later this year through St. Martin's Press. more ›