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We saw the book being advertised for half price in Smith's yesterday. Of course, with his ego, he will care more about it being a best seller than the money.
 
Thinking about it, and setting aside the obvious embarrassment of actually carrying the book to the Marie Curie counter, perhaps at less than 25p it would have been worth purchasing as it's obviously cheaper than bog-roll and might have provided some entertainment strung up in the smallest room?
 
brogdale said:
Thinking about it, and setting aside the obvious embarrassment of actually carrying the book to the Marie Curie counter, perhaps at less than 25p it would have been worth purchasing as it's obviously cheaper than bog-roll and might have provided some entertainment strung up in the smallest room?
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Guy Fawkes night is just around the corner
 
Sue said:
I have no absolutely no idea. Assume there must be some rules or whatever round what counts but who knows.
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To be clear, I didn't intend the question to be directed specifically to you, though it probably comes across that way.

Maybe someone else reading the thread has contacts in the book industry and can enlighten the rest of us.
 
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Boris Johnson’s memoir flops as sales slump despite ‘£2m advance’

Booksellers reportedly left with ‘piles and piles’ of the political memoir, ‘Unleashed’
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Sales of Boris Johnson’s political memoir are understood to have slumped well below expectations, with the much-advertised release now on track to be overtaken by a cookbook.

Despite an apparent £2m advance on the 784-page account of his time in Downing Street, Unleashed only managed to sell 42,528 copies in its opening week, far fewer than his publishers, HarperCollins, had likely predicted.

The former prime minister suffered a 62 per cent reduction in his sales lead this week, narrowly managing to cling onto the number one spot, selling just 133 more copies than Tim Spector’s The Food for Life Cookbook.

Mr Johnson’s sales figures fall far short of predecessors Margaret Thatcher, who sold an estimated 120,000 copies upon the release of her 1993 memoir, and Tony Blair, who sold 92,000 copies in the first week of his.
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cookbooks can be very popular though :thumbs:
 
brogdale said:
Thinking about it, and setting aside the obvious embarrassment of actually carrying the book to the Marie Curie counter, perhaps at less than 25p it would have been worth purchasing as it's obviously cheaper than bog-roll and might have provided some entertainment strung up in the smallest room?
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Well, running water is supposed to help if you need to pee, so maybe reading unmitigated shite will....
 
two sheds said:
www.independent.co.uk

Boris Johnson’s memoir flops as sales slump despite ‘£2m advance’

Booksellers reportedly left with ‘piles and piles’ of the political memoir, ‘Unleashed’
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cookbooks can be very popular though :thumbs:
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Speaking on his podcast The Rest Is Entertainment, Richard Osman said: “Well, we said last week that Blair sold 92,000, Thatcher sold 120,000, that Mr Johnson had had a £2m advance, so he would need to sell probably nearer that Thatcher figure.

“HarperCollins thought he was going to do Prince Harry numbers, and he [Harry] sold 450,000 in his first week, and he [Mr Johnson] sold 42,000, which is so far below any of the expectations they would have had. They have overpaid massively.”
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“Talking to certain booksellers, there is a lot of stock in the shops. One of the things you do [is] you send out a lot of stock. If you’ve got a book you think is going to sell a lot, you send out a lot and there are piles and piles of that book in different bookshops around the country.”

He added: “A lot of people would kill for 42,000 books, but [it’s] almost impossible not to sell that many when he’s had that many free adverts on things and he’s very, very famous. But yeah, that’s the Christmas bonuses at HarperCollins gone.”
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:D
 
C4 are billing that Johnson will be on their US election coverage tomorrow night (if the lazy cunt turns up). They had Kwateng on their GE coverage in July, and he showed some relative humility. I don't expect that from Johnson.
 
stavros said:
C4 are billing that Johnson will be on their US election coverage tomorrow night (if the lazy cunt turns up). They had Kwateng on their GE coverage in July, and he showed some relative humility. I don't expect that from Johnson.
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He did turn up and only spoke about two things. Firstly the idea that Trump and he were brilliant for Ukraine, and secondly that he had a new book out. Maitlis and KGM had to tell him to stop plugging it on multiple occasions.

Incredibly he was then outdone in the fruitcake league by some nutter from Colorado, who kept insisting that there was a doctor there doing terminations at 9 months.
 
tbf they fired Johnson for shilling his book and keep George Santos around for a hour or so

so we have to be some what understandable to the yanks for voting for trump yesterday
 
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