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He might have taken his time to write it and he might have been comprehensively beaten to publication by his wife, but Barack Obamaâs 768-page memoir,
A Promised Land, will be on top of the Christmas bestseller charts in Australia and around the world.
The book, which was published on November 18, sold more than 18,000 copies in its first three days here and has now sold more than 71,000 copies, according to Nielsen BookScan, which surveys print book sales from more than 1600 retailers. In the week to December 12, nearly 17,200 copies of
A Promised Land were snapped up. It is also number one in Britain and at the top of the New York Times non-fiction list.