The election of Barack Obama was a surprising temporary revenue stream for the embattled print media — papers sold out, additional copies describing the victory sold out, and now companies like The New York Times are offering a cornucopia of Obama-related items for sale. (Framed edition of the front page declaring victory? Fifty bucks.)
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The Sourcebooks 2009 Barack Obama Wall Calendar: Words of Hope and Inspiration is the top-ranked calendar on Amazon and the No. 1 best-selling calendar at major retailers across the country.
Nielsen BookScan reports that the Obama calendar (ISBN 9781402219177; $12.99 US/$13.99 CAN; Aug. 1, 2008) sold 6,300 units last week. Jennifer Schubert, Vice President of Merchandising [...]

The 2009 From Slavery to the White House is an educational/historical calendar sharing the evolution of a people from the bondage of slavery to emancipation and the prospering in a free world society.
Barack Obama is one of the figures noted in this calendar and the main cover figure largely due to his nomination and secondly, [...]