One-third of 2020 growth in US print book sales was driven by juvenile fiction, NPD BookScan reports, with overall sales of 751 million units.
Obama’s ‘A Promised Land’ Breaks NPD BookScan’s Nonfiction Records
Year’s End: An already exceptionally busy year for nonfiction gets even hotter as US adult nonfiction print sales move 257 million units.
PEN America Gala Features Obama, Yovanovitch, Albright, Streep
‘James Baldwin didn’t have to go out and get votes,’ says Barack Obama in a taped interview in the PEN America gala.
The Booker Prize 2020 Ceremony: Barack Obama and Camilla
Produced in partnership with the BBC, the Booker Prize for Fiction winner-announcement ceremony will be streamed on November 19 and feature several star speakers.
PEN America, Penguin Random House Partner on ‘Book the Vote’
First rolled out during the 2018 US midterm elections, the ‘Book the Vote’ program offers voter information and political literature.
PRH Announces World Release of Barack Obama’s Memoir, Vol. 1, to 25 International Markets
Penguin Random House plans its worldwide release of A Promised Land, volume 1 of this presidential memoir by Barack Obama, on November 17.
In Japan: Publications of President Obama’s Speech at Hiroshima
The Obama visit to Hiroshima in May has led to more than one publication of his speech in English and Japanese: ‘Death fell from the sky and the world was changed.’
An Interview Extraordinaire: President Barack Obama Interviews Marilynne Robinson
In an extraordinary event, President Barack Obama sat down for an in-depth conversation with author Marilynne Robinson for the New York Review of Books.
Barack Obama and Elie Wiesel To Co-Author Book
Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel revealed that he and President Barak Obama will write a book together, reports Israel’s Haaretz newspaper. Curious? We are.