NEW YORK (AP) — No, the public isn’t tired of hearing about Prince Harry. Selling “Spare” Placed the Duke of Sussex in some rare company.
Penguin Random House announced Wednesday the premiere of Harry’s tell-all memoir has sold over 1.4 million copies. This is because it took him a week for Barack and Michelle Obama’s “Becoming” to reach 1.4 million copies when it was released in 2018. A record pace.
“Spare” sales include hardcover, audiobook and e-book editions sold in the US, Canada and the UK.
“Spare is the story of someone we thought we already knew, but now in his own words,” said Gina Centerero, president and publisher of Random House Group, in a statement. You can truly understand Prince Harry through
“Seeing this extraordinary first day sales, readers clearly agree that ‘Spare’ is a book they demand to read, and one we are proud to publish. ”
One of the most anticipated memoirs of recent times, ‘Spare’ is a very personal and intimate account of Harry. About his life in the royal family and his relationship with American actor Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex.
Since then, Michelle Obama’s memoir has sold over 15 million copies worldwide, with some very positive reviews, and sustained sales over the long term. The verdict on “Spare” has been mixed so far.
New York Times critic Alexandra Jacob called the book, and its authors were “across the map—emotionally and physically”, at times “frank and funny”, and at other times preoccupied with Harry’s anger at the British press.Washington Post, Louis Bayard “Spare” “Good-natured, mean, humorous, self-righteous, self-deprecating, long-winded. And sometimes embarrassing.
