A certain book

merlotgran 😂

It’s always been half price on Amazon.
You’d be daft to pay 28 quid

The shelves in our local shops were full of the book it’s not being purchased around where I live.

Would I read it if I was offered £1million to read and review it?

Yes, I have principles but 😂😂😂
Anyway, I'd be given it free.

Non fiction ? I thought it was fiction. Oh dear.

😂😂😂

And, as my friend would say, 'ow much??? 😲

I can't make out why in some shops it's piled high at half price on publication day. I thought things had to be on sale at full price for a period before that was allowed.

I think to be fair many books go on sale half price, I bought The Ink Black Heart half price, I'm hoping the new Elly Griffiths will be half price. Talking of which someone posted recently that they were no 350 something in line for that at her library as opposed to number 15 upthread for Spare.

They are mostly over-priced in the first place.

Redhead56

The shelves in our local shops were full of the book it’s not being purchased around where I live.

No restocking going on then .

I very rarely buy hardbacks waiting until the paperback comes out, so won’t buy this, but am glad that a percentage is going to charity.
I think part of the attraction for people is a glimpse behind the facade of the very secretive RF.

TerriBull

I think to be fair many books go on sale half price, I bought The Ink Black Heart half price, I'm hoping the new Elly Griffiths will be half price. Talking of which someone posted recently that they were no 350 something in line for that at her library as opposed to number 15 upthread for Spare.

I was the one 15th in library queue for ‘Spare’.

Am also in the queue for Elly Griffiths’ latest, but am 11th for that.

My little local library comes into its own for popular books obviously.

I’m pretty sure I just saw a Tesco for £9…. wouldn’t interest me if it was 9p..

Saw it being put on the shelves at Tesco's, I said ... no need to buy it as everyone knows what's in it !

I won't be reading it, Harry is a disgrace I'll give him ten years with the Meghan.

Well, I'm a bit miffed with our library service (particularly as our two nearest libraries have been shut down recently). They aren't listing Spare on either of the online services they offer, the one for audiobooks or the one for e-books. I do want to read it, but I feel I can wait till it's in one of the local charity shops.

All profits are supposed to be going to charities though, aren't they?

No maggiemaybe only a small proportion of the money is going to charities, unless it now changes.

All profits? No, a very tiny percentage!

I understand that a fixed sum is going to charity, so whether it’s a small percentage of overall profit depends on how many are sold, and at what price.

I am reading the book in the picture in the middle of Spare books posted earlier.

Happy Valley was definitely a good choice for me, I’m fed up with his poor me bleating, it’s hard to get away from, plastered as it is all over the paper and tv. Some of the things I’ve heard and him say are quite frankly disgusting, the way he talks about women, vulgar, bad mouthing his own father and step mother, his brother, who suffered just as he did, he is a self pitying man, who will be welcomed back by the people he is rubbishing one day. I hope tgey don’t respond to him and soon we can listen to the real news not look or hear this grumpy, hard done by billionaire.

Siope

I understand that a fixed sum is going to charity, so whether it’s a small percentage of overall profit depends on how many are sold, and at what price.

It has been reported that H received a $20m advance for his book and has paid £1.5m to two charities (in total).

Didn’t see anyone buying it yesterday in my Sainsbury’s. I’m sure on TV they said he has been signed up for four books! What on earth is he going to write about. Won’t be reading or listening to his whinge.

I wouldn’t buy it, but if I got it free I would read it. I’m mildly curious.

It has been reported that H received a $20m advance for his book and has paid £1.5m to two charities (in total)

Apples and oranges. Advances are against royalties. They are a pre-profit cost.

Profits are made by publishers. People in this thread are asserting that the charity donations are from profits, not from the author’s royalties,

If that is true (I have no idea and I suspect neither does anyone else here) then whether the sum paid is a large or small percentage of those profits depends on volume and price of sales.

Publishers aim for a pre-tax profit margin of 10 - 12%. They rarely realise that.