- It plunged to 215 on the Amazon ‘bestsellers’ list
Omid Scobie’s new book Endgame sold just under 6,500 copies in Britain during its first five days on scale despite a blizzard of publicity – and has now plunged to 215 on the Amazon ‘bestsellers’ list.
The hatchet-job against the Royal Family has been widely pilloried even by normally sympathetic media outlets like the New York Times, which described one chapter as ‘like a press release cooked up by ChatGPT’.
Derided as ‘not all that different from what Harry presented in ”Spare”’, most reaction to the book has focused on its Dutch language edition, which named two family members accused by the Duchess of Sussex of ‘unconscious bias’.
Yet even this controversy has done little to boost its success, with Nielsen putting British sales figures for the first five days at 6,448.
By contrast, Scobie’s first book on the Sussexes, Finding Freedom, sold 31,000 in its first five days while Harry’s autobiography Spare sold 467,183 – making it the fastest selling non-fiction book since records began in 1998.
Endgame dropped to 215 in the Amazon bestseller list compared to 174 Monday.
The book is now in the table behind activity book Things To Do While You Poo On The Loo and children’s titles such as Dormouse Has a Cold, the Beano annual, Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Stick Man.
It also trails biographies from Britney Spears, Matthew Perry and Chris Kamara; and cookbooks from Mary Berry, Rick Stein and Tom Kerridge.
