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Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex
Bantam Press · 416 pages
The Curve
39%
Lost the room
2 readersstill counting
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How we count itHow far everybody got
The one book statistic nobody publishes: the page people stopped at. It moves every time somebody reports.
- 2
- Readers reporting
- 0%
- Still going at halfway
- 161
- Median page reached
- 0%
- Finished it
of 416
0 of 2
We got into it and then we did not.
The biggest single fall is between 30% and 40% — around page 125. Something happens there.
Your page
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Why this one
Ghostwritten by J R Moehringer, who is credited on the acknowledgements page rather than the jacket. The credit is the part we want to look at.
Notes in the margin
Pinned to the page they belong to. You see only as far as you have read, so nothing here can spoil anything — which is also why the best of it is further in.
The notes unlock as you read. Log the page you reached and everything written before it appears; write your own and it waits there for whoever gets that far.
Where to get it
Ordered by where the money goes, not by what it pays us. What we earn is printed on every row, before you click.
Where
What it is
What they get
We get
Your local library
Free, and the authors are still paid per borrow. There is no catch here.
Free
They getA loan recorded against the authors under Public Lending Right
We getNothing
Your actual local bookshop
Walk in and ask. They will order it by Tuesday.
The high street
They getAll of it
We getNothing
Bookshop.org UK
The rare link where the good option and the lucrative option are the same option. We would love to claim credit for that.
Independent
They getA matching 10% into the independent bookshop pool
We get10%
Hive
Online, and an independent shop still gets paid. Name one at the checkout.
Independent
They getA cut to an independent bookshop you choose
We getNothing
Waterstones
Click and collect from the one on your high street, if it is still there.
A chain of bookshops
They getA chain, but a chain of bookshops
We getNothing
Blackwell's
Oxford's own. Reliably has the odd edition the others do not.
A chain of bookshops
They getFree UK delivery, since 1879
We getNothing
Kobo
Log the page your reader shows and the last page of your edition. The figure copes.
Ebook
They getAn ebook, readable on anything that is not a Kindle
We getNothing
Audible
An audiobook. Log where you stopped in hours; the Curve counts those too.
Audiobook
They getThe rest, to Amazon, by another door
We getNothing
World of Books
Second-hand. Nobody involved in publishing it earns a penny.
Second-hand
They getA second-hand copy stays out of a skip
We getNothing
AbeBooks
Second-hand, from an actual bookseller. Owned by Amazon, which it would rather you did not dwell on.
Second-hand
They getA second-hand bookseller somewhere in the country
We getNothing
eBay
Second-hand, from somebody who already stopped on a page. There is a joke in there.
Second-hand
They getWhoever finished it, or gave up on it
We getNothing
Amazon
Listed because pretending you have not considered it would be silly.
The big one
They getThe rest, to the second-largest company on earth
We getUp to 4.5%
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