Obama said the book gives readers a sense of the presidency, and his and Michelle Obama's personal journey during that time. The publisher expects demand to be so high that it has ordered a first US printing of 3 million copies, of which 1 million will be printed in Germany, and shipped in 112 containers
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Former United States President Barack Obama’s new memoir will be published in November, shortly after the election, his publisher, Penguin Random House, announced Thursday.
The 768-page book, “A Promised Land,” will be the first of two volumes, this one encompassing parts of his early political life, his presidential campaign in 2008 and ending with the death of Osama bin Laden in 2011. It will be released around the world Nov. 17 in 25 languages, including Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Czech, Finnish and Vietnamese.
Demand for the book is expected to be extraordinary, and Crown, an imprint of Penguin Random House, has ordered a first printing for the U.S. edition of 3 million copies. To accommodate such an enormous order, Crown plans to print about 1 million of those books in Germany and has arranged for three ships, outfitted with 112 shipping containers, to bring those copies to the United States.
Obama and Michelle Obama sold their memoirs to Crown as a package deal for a record-smashing $65 million. So far, it doesn’t look like they overpaid. Michelle Obama’s book, “Becoming,” has sold more than 8.1 million units in the United States and Canada since it was published in the fall of 2018.
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