I’ve written before about the control-your-darlings phenomenon, where, for example, companies like bandstocks offer anyone, anywhere, to be a producer of artists’ albums. Now you can control your favorite writers as well. Even Nobel laureates.

Right now, Swedish publisher Bookhouse invites anyone to buy a stake in Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunu’s new book. Though not as far-going a deal as the music producer offers (the manuscript is already set), it enables anyone to make sure the book will be published, and to reap the rewards if it were to become a bestseller.