Spanish store have accidentally released ‘Spare’…

SnottyLottie · 2023-01-05T14:04:49+00:00

And Sky News have a copy https://news.sky.com/story/prince-harry-book-live-updates-spanish-version-of-spare-mistakenly-put-on-sale-and-sky-news-has-a-copy-12780329

NowDoYouBelieveMe · 05/01/2023 16:12

Do you really believe that??

Sounds made up to me. The Telegraph were probably sent an advance copy.

the80sweregreat · 05/01/2023 16:27

He should have called it
'Going spare '
!

RoseAndRose · 05/01/2023 16:40

Yes, I believe it.

Copies are distributed to bookshops in advance of publication dates and its considerably more likely that a mistake about which day to put out on sale would be made in a non-British location.

I'm sure there will have been plenty of surreptitious reading the back rooms of bookshops everywhere, making ready the stories for publication day. But only BINGO into print when a mistake such as this happens

user1795437 · 05/01/2023 16:42

I think it has happened before with other books so it is very likely.

NowDoYouBelieveMe · 05/01/2023 16:43

The relationship between the royal family and the British press is so weirdly close it's incestuous, which makes me doubt this "accidental" leak entirely.

NottanOtter · 05/01/2023 16:45

There's absolutely no way the Telegraph or any other newspaper would be sent an advance copy. Whether someone found someone else who managed to bribe a bookseller at a European bookshop to slice open the shrink wrapped pallet a day early is another matter.

NowDoYouBelieveMe · 05/01/2023 17:22

NottanOtter · 05/01/2023 16:45

There's absolutely no way the Telegraph or any other newspaper would be sent an advance copy. Whether someone found someone else who managed to bribe a bookseller at a European bookshop to slice open the shrink wrapped pallet a day early is another matter.

What makes you so sure?

NottanOtter · 05/01/2023 17:29

Because there will be a complex publication/marketing schedule agreed across the entire PRH operation to maximise sales, not just media coverage. The marketing plan for this book is driven by the publishers, not Prince Harry or the media, and there are currently no books in the shops for anyone to buy. If the 'best bits' are filleted out ahead of publication, a significant number of people won't bother to buy the book, thinking they've already read the juicy stuff, and what's left will just be a lot of waffling about quinoa and tapping.

NowDoYouBelieveMe · 05/01/2023 17:53

NottanOtter · 05/01/2023 17:29

Because there will be a complex publication/marketing schedule agreed across the entire PRH operation to maximise sales, not just media coverage. The marketing plan for this book is driven by the publishers, not Prince Harry or the media, and there are currently no books in the shops for anyone to buy. If the 'best bits' are filleted out ahead of publication, a significant number of people won't bother to buy the book, thinking they've already read the juicy stuff, and what's left will just be a lot of waffling about quinoa and tapping.

I would believe you but the royal family is not like anything other authors, so I don't think you can go by the standards others are held to.

The papers publish "leaks" all the time which are deliberately released on the sly. It's politics.