(CNN) — Prince Harry broke a record with his explosive memoir “Spare” after the English-language version sold more than 1.4 million copies on its first day of publication.
The extraordinary sales included all formats of the book (paper, audio and electronic) in the US, Canada and the United Kingdom, according to a statement issued Wednesday by the publisher Penguin Random House.
“Spare’s first full-day sales already represents the highest first-day sales total for any nonfiction book ever published by Penguin Random House, the world’s largest trade publisher,” the publisher said in the text.
Harry’s 410-page memoir officially went on sale Tuesday, with some shops in London opening at midnight in anticipation of high demand. Days before, copies of the Spanish version were published, generating a whirlwind of headlines and revelations in the media around the world.
However, the spoilers they did not stop those eagerly awaiting its publication from going for the book, as the publisher revealed.
Random House also said that the first US printing of Harry’s memoir was two million copies and that the book has now “returned to press to make additional copies to meet demand.”
The publisher had promised “raw, unwavering honesty” from the prince, who narrated the unabridged audio version of the book.
“Spare” went on sale in 16 languages around the world.
The Duke of Sussex hides next to nothing and seeks to dismantle the widespread perception that he is the carefree, fun-loving, party prince, as well as delves into the devastating impact the death of his mother had on his life, talks about experimentation with drugs as a method of coping with pain and their struggles to find love.
At times, he is scathing and hypercritical towards various family members, who so far have not stood up for themselves. He also reveals deeply personal conversations despite Harry’s earlier criticism of the media for invasion of privacy.
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex.
“Vulnerable and moving, brave and intimate, ‘Spare’ is the story of someone we thought we already knew. Now we can really come to understand Prince Harry through his own words,” said Gina Centrello, Random’s president and editor. House Group in the statement.
To put the sales of “Spare” in context, Barack Obama’s 2020 memoir “A Promised Land” sold 887,000 copies across all formats on its first day in the US and Canada, breaking records at the time. for the book’s publisher, Crown, a Penguin Random House imprint.
