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"This comes on top of the 210,000 copies
initially printed," the spokesperson said, adding even more
could be printed depending on orders.
Fayard couldn't yet give any exact sales figure.
The spokesperson said new orders for "Le Suppleant", the French
translation of "Spare", were 20% stronger at this point than for
the first volume of former U.S. President Barack Obama's memoir,
a global blockbuster published in 2020.
In the book, Harry divulges that he had begged his father not to
marry his second wife Camilla, now the queen consort. The book
also revealed that elder brother and heir to the throne William
had knocked him over during a heated argument.
International Publisher Penguin Random House said earlier this
week the memoir had secured the largest first-day sales total
for any non-fiction book it had ever published with more than
1.4 million copies sold in the United States, Canada and the
United Kingdom.
Britain's King Charles and Prince William made their first
public appearances since the publication of the book on
Thursday. They made no public reference to the saga.
A Penguin Random House spokeswoman in Munich said that the
publisher also started printing additional copies of the German
language version on the day of the release.
(Reporting by Tassilo Hummel; Additional reporting by Miranda
Murray in Berlin,; Editing by Alexandra Hudson)
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