Ilon Musk will write a book about Mars and Earth for $ 3.5 million

A successful entrepreneur, the head of such companies as Tesla and SpaceX Ilon Musk is going to start work on a new project. The project is not another company, as one would expect, but a book. Musk will write it for the publishing house Penguin Books, which has pledged to pay a fee of $ 3.5 million.



The book will consist of two main parts. The first part is devoted to the Earth and the possible difficulties of the further existence of man on his own planet. The second part is devoted to the idea of ​​"the great migration of the peoples of the Earth" to other planets. Mask will talk about what can already be done for this, and what remains to be done.



Ilona Mask has her own literary agent - Jennifer Rudolf Walsh, owner of the Worldwide Literary Department agency. Walsh, after the idea of ​​creating the book, appealed to several major publishers at once with a proposal to finance the writing of the book. All agreed. After that, Ilon Mask reduced the number of project participants to two. And Penguin Books, after meeting with Mask (representatives of another publisher participated in the meeting) came out victorious. In general, this is the rare case when the author chooses a publisher, and sets conditions for him.

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The exact amount of the transaction between Musk and the publisher is unknown, but there are persistent rumors in which the figure of 3.5 million US dollars appears. Unlike Dontsova, some other authors, Musk will not work with "literary blacks", and will write everything himself. The time of writing the book is about two years.



As usual, Mask has a lot of ideas about publishing a book. So, he hopes to publish the book in several languages ​​at once, on the same day. Many publishers have already expressed their critical attitude to this idea, but, in fact, a person who is simultaneously working on spacecraft and electric vehicles (and not only on this) can be trusted - everything should work out for him.