Prince Harry’s ‘Spare’ , Breaks Sales Records.
CNN reports that Prince Harry's
memoir sold over 1.4 million copies
on the first day it hit shelves, Jan. 10.
Paper, audio and electronic versions of the book were included in the bumper sales in America, Canada and the U.K.
'Spare' publisher Penguin Random House issued a statement on Jan. 11.
The first full day of sales of Spare represents the largest first-day sales total for any nonfiction book ever published by Penguin Random House, the world's largest trade publisher, Penguin Random House, via statement.
To compare, Barack Obama's memoir,
'A Promised Land,' sold 887,000
the first day it hit shelves.
Harry's 410-page memoir has
been published in 16 languages.
It has "gone back to press for additional copies to meet demand" in the U.S.
Gina Centrello, president and publisher of the Random House Group, issued a statement speaking to the book's powerful nature.
Vulnerable and heartfelt, brave and intimate, Spare is the story of someone we may have thought we already knew, but now we can truly come to understand Prince Harry through his own words, Gina Centrello, president and publisher of the
Random House Group, via statement