The bidding war over a book deal with Barack and Michelle Obama has skyrocketed to more than $60 million, reports The Financial Times.
The Obamas are writing separate books but selling the rights jointly.
Penguin Random House, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster are all participating in the bidding war.
According to FT, Penguin Random House, paid $15m for the rights to Bill Clinton’s 2004 memoirs My Life when he left the White House, while George W Bush made an estimated $10m from his book Decision Points, which was published by Crown.
The money supply has climbed from $4.9 trillion when Clinton left office to the present $13,3 trillion, which is certainly helping a lot in the record bidding war.
-RW
I wonder how much of his wealth is he going to share? Probably not too much of it.
ReplyDelete"I do think at a certain point you've made enough money.". -- Obama
ReplyDelete"But I don't want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess. I don't mind cleaning up after them, but don't do a lot of talking." -Obama
Someone doesn't practice what they preach.
How many of the fools that voted for Obama are functionally illiterate? Seems like a money pit for the publisher.
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