Toyota's Japan flagship Crown car to debut on global markets
Toyotaโs flagship model in Japan, the Crown, is going on sale around the world for the first time, including in the U.S. Toyota Chief Executive Akio Toyoda said the company was aiming for 200,000 vehicles in annual global sales in 40 nations.
Inquiry finds Crown Resorts unfit to run its Sydney casino
The Crown logo is seen on Crown Sydney Tower at Barangaroo in Sydney on Dec. 28, 2020. An inquiry has found Australian gambling company Crown Resorts unfit to run its new Sydney casino because it facilitated money laundering and had other problems. Commissioner Patricia Bergin recommended several changes Crown should make before it could run the casino. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)SYDNEY โ Australian gambling company Crown Resorts is unfit to run its new Sydney casino because it facilitated money laundering and had other problems, a regulator said Tuesday. Her recommendations include a forensic probe to make sure all money laundering in Crown accounts has been uncovered.
Sales top 3 million for Barack Obamaโs โA Promised Landโ
FILE - This Feb. 19, 2019, file photo shows former President Barack Obama speaking at the My Brother's Keeper Alliance Summit in Oakland, Calif. Obamas A Promised Land sold nearly 890,000 copies in the U.S. and Canada in its first 24 hours, putting it on track to be the best selling presidential memoir in modern history. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)NEW YORK โ Just a month after publication, Barack Obamaโs โA Promised Landโ is well on its way to becoming the best-selling presidential memoir in modern times. Crown announced Wednesday that sales have topped 3.3 million copies in the U.S. and Canada, within range of Bill Clintonโs โMy Lifeโ and George W. Bushโs โDecision Points,โ both of which have sold between 3.5 million and 4 million. โA Promised Land,โ the first of two planned volumes, covers Obamaโs election in 2008 and much of his first term. READ: Obama memoir sells a record 1.7 million copies in first week
Barack Obama memoir off to record-setting start in sales
โWe are thrilled with the first day sales,โ said David Drake, publisher of the Penguin Random House imprint Crown. As of midday Wednesday, โA Promised Landโ was No. โSo far it has been neck and neck with Michelle Obama's book,โ he said. The New York Times' Jennifer Szalai wrote that the โmost audacious thing" about โA Promised Landโ is โthe beaming portrait" of Obama on the cover. Obama's book is the highlight of publishing's holiday season and for some independent bookstores, the potential difference between remaining in business or closing.
McConaughey writing book based on life-changing adventures
NEW YORK Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey didn't want to write an ordinary celebrity book. This is not a traditional memoir, or an advice book, but rather a playbook based on adventures in my life, McConaughey, 50, said in a statement about Greenlights, which comes out Oct. 20. Adventures that have been significant, enlightening, and funny, sometimes because they were meant to be but mostly because they didnt try to be.According to Crown, which announced the book Wednesday, the actor known for films Dallas Buyers Club and Magic Mike will draw upon a diary he has kept for 35 years. He found not only stories, questions, truths, and affirmations, but also a reliable theme, Crown announced. "From growing up as an adventurous kid in a tough-love Texas home of rule breakers, to revelatory journeys to Australia, Peru, and Mali, to his early days in Hollywood and meteoric rise to fame, McConaughey shares how his life experiences have instilled in him the importance of competent values, the power of new experiences, and, as he puts it, either changing your reality or changing how you see it.