Publisher Penguin Randon House revealed on Wednesday that Prince Harry’s memoirs, titled alternate, It had passed 1.4 million copies on its first day of sales, a record number for a nonfiction book.
These data refer to sales of physical books, but also audio and digital ones, in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, indicates the AP agency, broadcast by the hollywood reporter.
For comparison, Michelle Obama’s book of events took a week Become to reach 1.4 million copies sold. Barack Obama, also published by Penguin Random House, had sold 887,000 copies of the first part of his memoir, a promised land.
“Looking at these extraordinary numbers for the first day of sales alone, readers clearly agree: ‘The Substitute’ is a book that begs to be read and one that we are proud to publish,” said Gina Centrello, president of the band Random. House.
130,000 withdrawals in three days in France
alternate, whose publication had been delayed due to the death of Queen Elizabeth II, shakes the British monarchy by providing many details about its operation, but also about the difficulties that Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle are going through.
Among other details, the Duke of Sussex reveals in his memoirs a violent altercation with his brother Guillermo, called one day to ascend to the throne, but also the denigrating statements that his father, the current sovereign Carlos III, supposedly made against him.
In France, the French publisher of Substitute Fayard said the book, initially printed in 210,000 copies, has already reached 130,000 reprints in three days.
Source: BFM TV
