Obama sold record-breaking 1.7 million copies of memoir in first week
Source: The Hill
Penguin Random House announced on Tuesday that former President Obama's memoir "A Promised Land" had sold more than 1.7 million copies in its first week.
According to a press release from Penguin, Obama's memoir sold 887,000 in all formats in the U.S. and Canada on its first day making it the best selling book in the publisher's history. It also had the highest first-week sales of any of Penguin Random House's publications.
"A Promised Land" was released globally on Nov. 17 by Crown Publishing, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House. It was published in 20 languages with six more languages to come. It is currently the number one bestselling book in the U.K.
Obama's memoir beat the first day sales of Michelle Obama's memoir "Becoming," which sold 750,000 on its first day. Without releasing a paperback edition, "Becoming" has since sold over 10 million copies.
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