Good news for readers who were trembling with impatience. While Nicolas Sarkozy's new book was not due out until Tuesday, August 22, the Fayard publishing house has decided to bring forward the publication date to Saturday. A decision taken "for the sake of fairness" after finding that the book had already been put on sale in some brands, as reported by BFMTV. "This kind of incident only happens with stocks with very high sales potential. And it is clear that the president's book was at the top of Amazon sales, even before its release, "said Friday evening Fayard to RTL.
Isabelle Saporta, CEO of the Hachette group, on which Fayard depends, also paid tribute to her teams to Livre-Hebdo: "It makes things a little chaotic but I would like to thank and congratulate the teams of Hachette Distribution who have allowed this date advancethat can only be done with a title with high potential."
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After the first volume of his memoirs, Le Temps des tempêtes, published in 2020 by Éditions de l'Observatoire, on the first months of his five-year term, Nicolas Sarkozy returns, with this new book, to the second part of his mandate, between 2009 and 2011. The opportunity to paint some salient portraits and distribute the good and bad points. A clever way to endorse the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, with whom he is very close, in view of the presidential election of 2027.