Bookshops opened early this morning for the release of Prince Harry’s memoir – but rather than floods of customers, staff saw barely anyone turn up.
And this is a surprise?
Promotional posters on display at Waterstones in Piccadilly, Europe’s largest bookshop, dubbed the autobiography ‘the memoir everybody is talking about’.
If by ‘talking about it’ you mean wall to wall ramming it down our throats by the media, I suppose so. Most of us probably wish the whole thing would go away.
But Caroline Lennon, 59, was the only one waiting to buy Spare after she walked two miles from Bethnal Green in the East End to queue from 6am.
She said: ‘I don’t care what anybody says. People will criticise me and say ‘what an idiot for liking Harry. What an idiot for queuing up’, but I don’t care what anyone says
Okay, fine. You’re an idiot. A gullible fool.
Don’t they have any bookshops in Bethnal Green then?
Yes but the only sell the Koran.
“People will criticise me and say ‘what an idiot for liking Harry. What an idiot for queuing up’”
No they won’t. There was no queue. That’s the point. You waited outside a shop for several hours in the middle of January for something you could have strolled in and bought in five minutes flat once it opened. You’re an idiot.
“I thought there’d be a queue round the block but I’m on my own”
QED.
You have to get it early on the day to make sure it’s the first edition first printing. Later in the Afternoon it could even be a second printing if not the second edition!
I think the best result here is “Remaindered”.
No-one’s interested in a Royal Spare past their sell by date…and from all the pontification in the Mainly Fail and other newspapers, it’s quite clear that Harry has gone orf! Like month old fish.
Well, that’s what happens when you marry a 2nd hand American divorcée, no different from Mrs. Simpson, save via a Canadian TV series than a brothel in Shanghai.
Yet the publishers are claiming it’s the best selling non fiction book ever! (It’s in the Daily Mail so must be right). I wonder how much they bribed booksellers to advance order such stupid quantities, unless of course somebody is telling porkies.
You’re behind the times; there are no such things as ‘porkies’ any more, just other ‘truths’.
This link has a good description of publishing and how publishers push books:
https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/what-can-we-learn-from-barnes-and
James Daunt put a stop to that and turned things around.
“I don’t care what anyone thinks”, means, “I’ve just realised what a twat I am”
Not necessarily, I don’t care what anyone thinks because I don’t give a crap about their opinions.