Milo Yiannopoulos’s ‘Dangerous’ book sells 152 copies in the UK Controversial right-wing figure Milo Yiannopoulos has sold just 152 copies of his book “Dangerous” in the UK after many of his alt […]

Controversial right-wing figure Milo Yiannopoulos has sold just 152 copies of his book “Dangerous” in the UK after many of his alt right supporters cut ties with him.

The book sold 18,000 copies in the United States despite debuting at number one for a day on Amazon’s non-fiction chart, according to Nielsen Bookscan. That is less than a fifth of the figure Yiannopoulos’ PR team has claimed.

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The British blogger, who rose to prominence as a loud pro-Trump voice in the US, self-published the memoir after his original book deal fell through in February.

Comments he made about child abuse led to the loss of his Simon & Schuster contract, as well as his job at Breitbart. His Twitter account has long been suspended due to his involvement in abuse of high-profile women including Ghostbusters’ Leslie Jones.

Not enough copies

Milo’s estimate 100,000 Nielsen Bookscan figures 18,000

Despite his dip in profile, he claims that the book has sold more than 100,000 copies, explaining away the delay in Nielsen’s count as down to the fact that booksellers hadn’t ordered enough copies to keep up with demand.

“By now, you may have heard reports claiming we only sold 18,000 copies of Dangerous and that our 100,000 copies claim is exaggerated. I’m happy to report that this is fake news,” he said.

By comparison British vlogger Zoella broke the record for debut author first-week sales in 2014, shifting 78,000 copies of Girl Online.

Sales in the UK were even more disappointing as the author’s US cult of personality failed to translate to his home country. Yiannopoulos worked for the Daily Telegraph and founded his own tech journalism site here before shifting his attention across the Atlantic.

Online firebrands have found it more difficult to find mainstream success in this country than in the US, where radio host Rush Limbaugh is a household name with 13 million listeners a week.

Katie Hopkins had her TV show cancelled after one season due to low ratings, while the print version of the Daily Mail denied any link to her articles for the Mail Online.

Edgy party

However, while the sales may have failed to leave much of a mark, the New York launch party for the book reached almost cartoonish levels of edginess.

Featuring costumed dwarf performers, “jihadi strippers” and a Hillary Clinton impersonator, one of the guests of honour was Martin Shkreli, the pharmaceuticals executive who racked up the price of crucial medication used by people with HIV.