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After setting a first-day sales record for Penguin Random House on pub day, November 17, A Promised Land (Crown), the first volume of Barack Obama's presidential memoirs, has set a first-week sales record for the publisher.
During its first week, A Promised Land sold 1,710,443 units in all formats and editions in the U.S. and Canada, the largest week-one sales total for any book ever published by PRH. On its first day of publication, more than 887,000 copies were sold in the U.S. and Canada. In the U.K. and Ireland, the book sold nearly 150,000 units across formats in its first five days of publication and is the bestselling title in the U.K. in all book categories and formats.
A Promised Land was released a week ago yesterday in 20 languages, with translations in another six languages following soon. The hardcover U.S. edition of the book now has 4.3 million copies in print, following an initial printing of 3.4 million copies. Penguin Random House Audio also published an unabridged audio edition of the book, read by President Obama. A Spanish-language edition, Una Tierra Prometida, is available, too.