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noregrets2022 t1_iu04e49 wrote

Reply to comment by peppermintvalet in Prince Harry’s ‘unflinching’ memoir, Spare, to be published in January by elizabeth-cooper

I bet there will be plenty of people buying the memoir. We'll see how many do give a sh*t. I suspect, quite a few but hope not.

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peppermintvalet t1_iu052fn wrote

The US is huge and it doesn't take that many books sold to get on the bestseller list. Something like 5-10,000 to get on the NYT bestseller list. For amazon, it's less than 5000 upon release. In a country of over 200 million adults, that's peanuts. And Americans in general don't read many books lol.

If people do buy it it will be for the drama I expect.

Edit: the best selling book this year, Verity, has sold 3 million copies. Which sounds like a lot until you remember the 200 million adults in the country. Only 1.5% of the country bought it, less depending on how many of those sales were international. There is no real "cultural zeitgeist" in the US for books anymore.

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