Barbara Taylor Bradford: $30 million for six books (HarperCollins);
Jonathan Kellerman: $25 million for five books (Random House);
Dean Koontz: $18 million for three books (Bantam);
Whoopi Goldberg: $6 million (Morrow);
Colin Powell: $6 million (Random House);
Stephen King: $6 million for three books (Simon & Schuster);
Paul Reiser: $5.6 million (Morrow);
Marlon Brando: $5 million (Random House);
Marcia Clark: $4.2 million (Viking Penguin);
Jay Leno: $4 million (HarperCollins);
Paula Barbieri: $3 million (Little, Brown);
Drew Carey: $3 million (Hyperion);
George Stephanopoulos: $2.75 million (Little, Brown);
Dick Morris: $2.5 million (Random House);
Salman Rushdie: $2 million (Holt);
Don DeLillo: $1 million (Scribner).