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Behind the scenes of the Obama media empire, a couple worth gold

2020-11-22T19:14:07.559Z


INQUIRY - The former presidential couple could eventually amass a fortune of $ 240 million.The Obama small business is really unaware of the crisis. Launched last November 17 in 23 countries simultaneously, like a Hollywood blockbuster, the first volume of memoirs of the 44th President of the United States is already a publishing phenomenon. A promised land,pavé of 850 pages published in France by Fayard, sold nearly 890,000 copies in the United States and Canada on the day of its relea


The Obama small business is really unaware of the crisis.

Launched last November 17 in 23 countries simultaneously, like a Hollywood blockbuster, the first volume of memoirs of the 44th President of the United States is already a publishing phenomenon.

A promised land,

pavé of 850 pages published in France by Fayard, sold nearly 890,000 copies in the United States and Canada on the day of its release.

It did better than

Devenir,

the work of the former first lady in 2018, which sold "only" 724,000 copies in 24 hours ... but 14 million copies overall.

Michelle and Barack?

A brand that comes almost endlessly in derivative products.

And which pays big.

Very big.

Almost $ 65 million thanks to the contract with global publishing giant Penguin Random House.

More than 50 million additional dollars, the result of the deal made via their production company Higher Ground with Netflix.

To which is added a check from Spotify, estimated at around 20 million

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Source: lefigaro

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