In the heart of winter 2022, Simon & Schuster is making eyes at a handful of French publishers.
The fourth most powerful publishing group in the world wants to convince them to bet big in blind auctions... The American singer Britney Spears is in fact preparing in the greatest secrecy a manuscript recounting the torments of her life, including her under the guardianship of his father.
Behind the scenes, offers from houses are skyrocketing to obtain French translation and publication rights for this unprecedented speech.
The bidding went up to 300,000 euros, before JC Lattès ended up winning the bid, according to our information.
The Hachette group house offers Britney Spears the Olympia, the most prestigious television sets and the Parisian tour of the Grand Dukes, in order to convince her to come in person to promote her book
The Woman in Me
("The Woman in Me").
woman in me") in France.
But nothing works.
The star, who will see some…
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