Publishers battle for Keith Richards' autobiography

The bidding has narrowed down to two publishing houses, HarperCollins, a unit of News Corp, and Little Brown, a division of Hachette Filipacchi, the New York Post reports.

The choice will come down to the editor and the marketing campaign planned for the book, since the bidders are deadlocked on price, the Post reports, citing an unnamed source.

Neither publisher was immediately available for comment.

Richards' only goal was to beat the nearly $US5 million ($5.7 million) advance that Eric Clapton snagged for his memoir, due out this October, the Post reports. © 2007 Australian Broadcasting Corporation