Barack and Michelle Obama each just sold a book in a joint deal that appears to be bigger than any previous presidential book deal in history. Reportedly, they are making $65 million, which is an unprecedented amount of money for a presidential memoir.
Cashing in on multimillion dollar book deals is how former presidents get rewarded for all the favors and crony deals they do for big corporations while in office. I bet the publisher is owned indirectly by Amazon or Berkshire Hathaway or some other big conglomerate. That's how things have been done since at least the Nixon years.
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