Barack and Michelle Obama agree Penguin Random House book deal [$60 MM]

BBC ^ | March 1, 2017 | Staff

[C19fan]

Former US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle have agreed a book deal with Penguin Random House. "The company has acquired world publication rights for two books, to be written by President and Mrs Obama respectively," the publisher said. Titles and other details have not been disclosed but the deal is believed to be worth over $60m (£48m).

[Pilgrim's Progress]

They are no longer sucking off the government dime . . . it’s back to chitlins.

[EinNYC]

Most of these books, unfortunately, will end up in public and school libraries, thanks to our tax dollars.

And their books will end up where her cafeteria food menu did...

[butlerweave]

Will we find out what name Obama used in school and how much foreign aid he received ?

[Cementjungle]

Leaked table of contents for Barry's book:

1. What a mess I inherited from Bush.
2. How I created 27 billion new jobs
3. Now everyone has affordable healthcare
4. How I planned the Bin Laden raid
5. How I ended all wars around the world
6. What a great economy I left for Trump to screw up

Appendixes (from data declassified 20 minutes before Trump's swearing in):

1. Coordinates of our top 50 most sensitive military sites
2. Names and addresses of our best double-agents around the world
3. Selected sections from Trump's past tax returns.
4. My REAL birth certificate from Kenya

[Harpotoo]

Hey if they want to throw good money at bad (selling) books let’em have at it:-)

[Da Coyote]

Goaan be expensive for the 10 folks who buy the book.

What’s Ayer’s cut, since we know neither Dorkbama the Muslm eunuch or Mooooooooch-elle can write?

[forgotten man]

“Who would give 5 cents for this. Unless he provides his real BC and school transcripts it’s worthless.”

Public school systems will buy them and force the kids to read it a prepare a book report on it. Hell, Jerry Brown will ues taxpayer money buy a trainload of the Spanish language version of the books.

[fella]

Memories of the Jim Wright tome come to mind.

[free from tyranny]

You got something there. These outrageous book deals seem ridiculous. How much money can a book generate?
Especially a book from and about these two frauds.
Unless it is a tell all!! Barry’s hidden past. Mikes real gender. The rented kids! His deep state sponsors! Juicy stuff!!!!

[Pride in the USA]

I hope the sales are really bad.

[SgtHooper]

Good point!! Laundered through Iran.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

So now he’s a capitalist.

Spit.

[lonevoice]

I heard Rush saying that Random House didn’t know how to split the $60M between the two of them, because they’re not sure whose book will sell “better”. I think the more accurate word here is whose will sell “worse”. It’ll be a horserace to the bottom, I predict. HAhahaha!

[Mamzelle]

Yes, but why? I think this is Murdoch trying to fund Obama...but for what?

[SFConservative]

Hussein's: "Eight years no rent: How I scammed, used, misled, and fooled America and got away with it"

Wookie's: "Angry, ugly and tired: You try scowling for eight straight years"

[nikos1121]

Let’s assume his book will be roughly 300 pages, with a ghost writer. Let’s have a contest to see who can predict the number of times Obama lists “I” or “me” or “my.”

I’m guessing nothing less than 30 times per page, so we’re looking at over 9000 times.

[Vendome]

Some 65 million-ish people voted for Hillary in 2016.

I don’t believe 1/2 of those are going to purchase their books and less than half of that pool of potential customers are not literate.

There will be some awfully big bulk purchases made.

[forgotten man]

If we count the singular first possessive personal pronoun “mine”, total number of times first person pronoun is used will top 11,000 times easily.

[hal ogen]

Only the hopelessly mentally ill will buy these books. It is simply a shift of $60,000,000.00 to the worthless criminals. It doesn’t matter if even one book is sold.

[CaptainK]

This will be a sticky situation for Obama. No one was watching the marginally known Chicago politician when he handed over his autobiographical writing assignment to Bill Ayers, because he didn't have to skills to write it himself. Just as he wasn't up to writing a single Law Review article when he was the head of the Harvard Law Review.

Obama is going to have to live up to the reputation of the superior writer that the MSM has crowned him with. Now all eyes will be on him and he won't be able to sluff off the biggest writing assignment of his life to another ghost write.

This new book will have to be well written, detailed, fully packed and accurate. No make believe girlfriends on this go round.