The numbers from booksellers like Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, and Powell’s make it clear: Prince Harry‘s Spare, his memoir about his life as a royal, was already dominating bestseller lists by the point it was launched Tuesday. The day earlier than its publication, Jan. 10, Spare was first on Amazon’s U.S. bestseller checklist for books within the U.S. and primary on Barnes & Noble’s “B&N Prime 100: E-book Bestsellers.”

Spare additionally made it onto Books-A-Million and Powell’s lists. It was effectively located in some ways to finish up charting excessive. The memoir was launched round a month after the final three episodes of Harry & Meghan, the six-part Netflix docuseries centered across the Duke of Sussex and his American-born spouse, the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle. The collection clocked 81 million hours of viewership in its first 4 days alone.

Response to Spare has been an fascinating portrait of how the general public sees the British royal household. The BBC’s evaluate referred to as it “the weirdest e-book ever written by a royal,” about “a profoundly odd life, transferring immediately between this lack of [glamor] to time with the worldwide jet set.”

Some, nonetheless, take the e-book very severely — like royal biographer Angela Levin. She spoke to Euro Information about Spare, and referred to as Prince Harry “an actual bully” whose memoir “is effectively over the road.”

Whereas the New York Occasions famous numerous leaks from Spare in addition to revealing articles would possibly have an effect on e-book gross sales, the paper additionally quoted B&N and Waterstones head James Daunt, who mentioned Harry’s e-book is “clearly going to be an fascinating e-book that is going to maintain on promoting and it will carry on being a part of the dialog.”