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HOW "BECOMING" BY MICHELLE OBAMA TOPPED BEST SELLERS' LIST!

agnes levine · Saturday, November 17th 2018 at 2:50PM · 6332 views

For Immediate Release From The New York Times!


By John Williams
Nov. 13, 2018

Michelle Obama’s memoir, “Becoming,” which officially published today, is the No. 1 best seller on Amazon under the category of Biographies & Memoirs > Professionals & Academics > Lawyers & Judges. Of course, it’s also the top-selling book on the site as a whole.

The publishing industry might have to think back to Harry Potter’s heyday for a book that has garnered as much attention as the former first lady’s has. Secondary sellers of tickets for Obama’s upcoming rock ’n’ roll-like arena tour have high hopes of their own. Floor seats for the event at Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Dec. 1 are currently being offered on StubHub for between $1,000 and nearly $4,000.

[ Read “Michelle Obama’s Big Book Rollout.”]

Also like a rock band, Obama is hitting the road with a significant merchandise table, offering hoodies, mugs, onesies and other items festooned with her own motivational sayings. (The label on a $35 candle reads: “Find your flame and keep it lit.”) Unlike most rockers, however, the net proceeds of Obama’s merch sales will go to charity: her own Global Girls Alliance, centered on the education of adolescent girls around the world.

Obama’s book has gotten a little-needed additional boost from Oprah Winfrey, who has made it her next book club selection. Winfrey also interviews Obama in the December issue of Elle m


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