The decision was learn within the prison trial of Karen Learn.
Karen Learn’s high-profile homicide trial might price her thousands and thousands. Regardless of Learn being unemployed, consultants say there could also be methods she will make some wanted money, particularly with a guide deal.
The previous adjunct professor at Bentley College and an fairness analyst at Constancy Investments was acquitted of all homicide-related expenses within the 2022 demise of her former boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe. She might be on probation for a 12 months for driving whereas intoxicated.
Regardless of the vindication after her second trial, Learn has to pay her high-powered protection workforce that secured the not responsible verdicts on probably the most severe expenses.
In October 2024, Learn advised Vainness Honest she already owed greater than $5 million in deferred charges to her authorized workforce. That was earlier than her second trial even started.
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“Now that Karen Read has been found not guilty, there is a clear path for her to land a major book deal, quickly. Her case has captivated national attention not just because of the tragic loss of life, but because of the explosive claims of a cover-up, her unwavering proclamation of innocence and the grassroots movement that rallied around her,” Lauren Cobello, creator and CEO of Leverage with Media PR, advised FOX Enterprise.
Karen Learn and her father, William Learn, proper, greet her supporters as they enter the courthouse earlier than her acquittal June 18. (Stuart Cahill/Boston Herald by way of Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)
“In publishing, that level of media attention combined with vindication in court is exactly what drives interest when it comes to securing a book deal,” Cobello stated, estimating Learn might get a big guide advance within the mid-to-high six-figure vary if there’s a sturdy co-writer and a media tour.
“But beyond the money, what makes this moment so compelling from a publishing standpoint is that Karen Read’s story represents more than just a true crime narrative,” she stated. “It taps into bigger questions about justice, power and public perception. Those are the types of stories both publishers and readers are hungry for.”
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One other government within the publishing business advised FOX Enterprise the primary query that involves an editor’s thoughts with somebody like Karen Learn, who spoke to the media through the trial, together with a five-episode documentary on Max, is whether or not there may be something new?
Karen Learn throughout her homicide trial in Norfolk Superior Court docket June 9, 2025 ( Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe by way of Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)
“You’re going to have editors in the room … who are like, ‘Well, what’s left to tell?'” the manager stated. “What is going to be in this book? What’s going to get them back on ‘Good Morning America’ when the book comes out?
“The opposite query might be, ‘Will we look villainous for doing it?’”
However, prior books about such cases have had impressive sales numbers. After Amanda Knox’s book, “Ready to Be Heard,” was published in 2013, it sold 72,946 hard copies. That’s an impressive feat given that the median non-fiction book from a major publishing house sells around 9,000 hard copies, according to the executive.
Those figures refer to life sales, though most non-fiction books sell all their copies in the first few months of being released.
When factoring all platforms, including hard copy and e-book formats, Knox’s book sold over 200,000 copies. If an author receives about $4 per hard cover sold, the executive estimated Knox could have made nearly $300,000 on that format alone.
Sitting with her defense team, Karen Read listens as Judge Beverly J. Cannone sends the jury out for its first full day of deliberations in her murder retrial in Norfolk Superior Court June 16, 2025. ( Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via Getty Images / Getty Images)
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Another example is Gypsy Rose’s book, “My Time to Stand: A Memoir,” which, published in 2024, sold 12,000 hard copies. While it’s not as significant as Knox’s book, it’s still well above the median non-fiction book from a major publishing house, the executive noted.
Another publishing consultant told FOX Business that, aside from a potentially healthy advance and a contract for exclusive English-language distribution rights of her book, Read could also land a TV or movie deal “since streaming platforms might be champing on the bit for a documentary or a screenplay.”
Whereas they do not assume Learn would get an advance just like somebody like Hillary Clinton, the publishing marketing consultant stated it is also not out of the query for her to get anyplace between $60,000 and $150,000 up entrance, with advertising and marketing and PR appearances detailed in her contract.
