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Bookshops wary over new Price memoir

05.10.09 | Catherine Neilan

The Sun is claiming that bookshops may boycott Katie Price's forthcoming memoir, because it will be the fourth in five years.

According to today's issue, a source reportedly from Price's long-term publisher Random House said: "Bookshop managers are really worried. They fear this latest book could do more harm than good for business and are seriously considering shunning it altogether.

"Booksellers do not want to annoy their customers by putting out yet another autobiography from the same person who has already had three printed."

Academic bookseller Blackwell told the paper that branches would not be stocking Jordan's latest effort unless managers specifically requested copies. A spokesman said: "She has done three already. This is not a book we would say to our readers, 'You must buy'."

A spokesperson for Waterstone's added the book would be stocked "if we thought it was the right thing to do... We would give it consideration but I have not heard of any plans to do it yet."

The Sun piece is not clear, though it refers to a book coming before Christmas. The book, Standing Out, is not published until 22nd October and it is not a memoir. The publisher has another volume of autobiography under contract too, but this is not scheduled for publication until 2010. 

 

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By Clive Keeble

Made I larf - what a super way for the publishers to get the book in front of the public without spending a single frankfurter euro on promotion. Did anyone honestly expect Blackwells to stock the latest Katie Price bio ; however, the big W ranch is altogether another matter - they're only wary of the Grocers offering it free with a jumbo size Persil.

Thu, 27/01/2011 - 11:50
By Random Noose

Small issue with The Sun's story number one) Katie Price's "Standing Out" is NOT a memoir, rather a self-help/fashion hybrid guide: "to looking good, living life and being happy". Small issue with The Sun's story number two) Her last memoir ("Pushed to the Limit") has sold more than 400,000 copies. Not stocking Standing Out would be a potentially very stupid decision. Small issue with The Sun's story number three) what new Peter Andre memoir?

Thu, 27/01/2011 - 11:50
By jaaaack

PR story. Ignore.

Thu, 27/01/2011 - 11:50
By COMMENTATOR

Just watch ..........., "on sale in Tesco for

Thu, 27/01/2011 - 11:50
By Clive Keeble

Made I larf - what a super way for the publishers to get the book in front of the public without spending a single frankfurter euro on promotion. Did anyone honestly expect Blackwells to stock the latest Katie Price bio ; however, the big W ranch is altogether another matter - they're only wary of the Grocers offering it free with a jumbo size Persil.

Thu, 27/01/2011 - 11:50
By Random Noose

Small issue with The Sun's story number one) Katie Price's "Standing Out" is NOT a memoir, rather a self-help/fashion hybrid guide: "to looking good, living life and being happy". Small issue with The Sun's story number two) Her last memoir ("Pushed to the Limit") has sold more than 400,000 copies. Not stocking Standing Out would be a potentially very stupid decision. Small issue with The Sun's story number three) what new Peter Andre memoir?

Thu, 27/01/2011 - 11:50
By jaaaack

PR story. Ignore.

Thu, 27/01/2011 - 11:50
By COMMENTATOR

Just watch ..........., "on sale in Tesco for

Thu, 27/01/2011 - 11:50

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