UK: Prince Harry's autobiography titled 'Spare' is flying off the bookshelves. Over 1.4 million copies of the controversial memoir have been sold in just 24 hours after its release, breaking a record in the non-fiction category for the publisher - Penguin Random House.
The record copies were sold in the US, UK, and Canada and involved all formats and editions, including e-books and print.
“Penguin Random House announced today the English language edition of ‘Spare,’ the memoir by Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, sold more than 1,430,000 million units in all formats and editions in the United States, Canada and the UK on the first day of its publication, Tuesday, January 10, 2023.”
The first-day non-fiction sales figure of 'Spare' have eclipsed that of former US President Barack Obama's 'A Promised Land' (2020) and former First Lady Michelle Obama's 'Becoming' published in 2018.
Obama's memoir sold 887,000 copies across US and Canada while his wife's book managed to sell 725,000 copies.
The sales figures of the book suggest that the plummeting popularity of Prince Harry and Megan Markle has had no effect on the interest of people wanting to read about royal drama.- WION
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