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Article: Deals.(Between the lines: the inside scoop on what's happening in the publishing industry)
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- Black Issues Book Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 2005
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* United States Senator Barack Obama of Illinois has struck a $1.9 million, three-book deal with Crown Publishing Group and Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers, divisions of Random House Inc. Obama, whose reissued memoir, Dreams From My Father, was first published in 1995, leaped onto leading best-seller lists and stayed there last year after his keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention. [See BIBR cover story, January-February 2005.]
Random House said Obama would write two books for adults and one for children. The deal was contingent upon approval by the Senate Ethics Committee, and proceeds of the children's book were to go ...