Barack Obama memoir off to record-setting start in sales
Source: ABC News
NEW YORK -- Former President Barack Obama's “A Promised Land” sold nearly 890,000 copies in the U.S. and Canada in its first 24 hours, putting it on track to be the best selling presidential memoir in modern history.
The first-day sales, a record for Penguin Random House, includes pre-orders, e-books and audio.
“We are thrilled with the first day sales,” said David Drake, publisher of the Penguin Random House imprint Crown. “They reflect the widespread excitement that readers have for President Obama's highly anticipated and extraordinarily written book.”
The only book by a former White House resident to come close to the early pace of “A Promised Land” is the memoir by Obama's wife, Michelle Obama, whose “Becoming” sold 725,000 copies in North America its first day and has topped 10 million worldwide since its release in 2018. “Becoming" is still so in demand that Crown, which publishes both Obamas and reportedly paid around $60 million for their books, has yet to release a paperback.
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As of yesterday President Obama's book was number 1 on both Amazon and Barns & Noble.
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and then when I tried to order it last week, I was told that I had already ordered it! 
It got "delivered" (Kindle version) just after midnight of the 17th and is on my ipad. One of my sisters had given me the hardcover of Michelle's book back in 2018 for Christmas. 
