HOW "BECOMING" BY MICHELLE OBAMA TOPPED BEST SELLERS' LIST! (6296 hits)

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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Purchase your own copy of "Becoming" by Former First Lady, Michelle Obama today at: https://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords... Posted By: agnes levine
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