It seems sales haven’t been going as well as Mr Yiannopoulos claims (Picutre: Drew Angerer/Getty)

Right-wing media personality Milo Yiannopoulos has dismissed reports of low sales of his new book as ‘fake news’, after reports suggested the author’s UK figures were as low as 152.

Mr Yiannopoulos’s book Dangerous was self-published on 4 July.

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But according to The Guardian, figures from Nielsen Bookscan, which monitors book sales through almost all outlets, show the controversialist has only sold 18,268 copies in the US and 152 in the UK.

This is less than a fifth of what the former Breitbart technology editor’s PR team claimed to have sold through Amazon alone on day one of the launch.


Born in Kent, Mr Yiannopoulos rose to prominence as a pro-Trump voice in the US.

Born in Kent, he became a prominent Trump supporter (Picture: AP Seth Wenig)

His original book deal with publisher Simon & Schuster fell through as a result of comments he made on child abuse.



In an interview he said ‘you can get quite hung up on this child abuse thing’, before going on to suggest that sex between boys as young as 13 and older men could be ‘a coming-of-age relationship … in which the older men help those younger boys discover who they are’.

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While Yiannopoulos strongly denied supporting paedophilia and claimed that he had been ‘selectively edited’, the publisher terminated the £193,000 contract shortly after the interview emerged.

In a statement, Yiannopoulos claimed that his higher figure was not a count of retail sales, but included copies sent to wholesale sellers.

He said: ‘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.

‘It’s true that the major booksellers only managed to ship out 18,000 copies to retail customers by the list cutoff. But that’s because they didn’t order enough ahead of time, and have been scrambling to play catchup ever since.

‘The real news is that we’ve received wholesale orders and direct orders of such magnitude that our entire stock of 105,000 books is already accounted for.’

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Books sent to wholesalers are not counted by monitoring agencies like Nieslen.

This is because wholesalers usually return unsold copies back to publishers.

But Andre Breedt, managing director of Nielsen Book Research, said: ‘As our sales include Amazon sales it [the overall figure] is unlikely to be higher.’

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