Omid Scobie’s race-row sparking book Endgame sells just over 6,000 copies – and is already at half price
OMID Scobie’s race row-sparking Endgame has sold five times fewer copies than his previous book in its first week in print.
The author’s latest tome was bought 6,448 times in the UK since it was released last Tuesday – making £76,923.
But sales were 79.2 per cent lower than his previous release, Finding Freedom, which sold 31,000 copies in its first week in print in 2020.
Endgame was flogged across bookstores, supermarkets and online markets at an average price point of £11.93 in its first seven days on sale.
It means the book was most commonly sold for £10 less than its recommended retail price of £22.
The latest blow to Scobie, 42, comes after he admitted the book was penned “at lightning speed” – adding putting the 416-page work together was “not easy”.
The author has repeatedly denied writing the names of King Charles and Princess Kate into an early Dutch version of the now-discredited book – after two senior royals were accused of having “concerns” about the skin colour of Prince Harry’s son Archie.
Charles, 75, is said to have been in crisis talks with aides over the continuing fall-out with sources calling the relationship with his youngest son “fractured beyond repair”.
We revealed last week how insiders accused the Sussexes of leaking information to Scobie, who was previously nicknamed “Meghan’s Mouthpiece” over his close links with the couple.
Nielsen Bookscan figures showed a string of royal writers had bested purchases of Scobie’s book.
Commentator Valentine Low also edged out Scobie’s first-week stats after revealing he had sold 6,520 copies of Courtiers – a book about royal family staff – in September 2022.
And Gyles Brandreth’s biography of the late Queen, Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait, is also thought to have sold around 20,000 copies in its first week on sale – more than tripling Endgame.
The broadcaster, 75, has since sold a total of 91,902 copies of the book – raking in £1.6million.
Scobie’s best-selling Finding Freedom, about Harry, 39, and Meghan, 42, exiting their lives as working royals in 2020, sold a total of 60,043 copies at an average selling price of £13.21.