💰 Grifter Milo Yiannopoulos / Milo Wagner / Milo Hanrahan / @nero - Gets banned from everywhere, Stole charity money and general supervillan antics, Probably a Fed

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Sissy Galvez dijo:
http://redalertpolitics.com/2017/06...-set-outsell-amy-schumer-track-1-best-seller/

Has he really sold 65k books? That seems too high and there's no way he's hitting 250k.

Nice dig at Chelsea/Zoe Quinn, though. His book "publishes the only official account of what happened during the gamergate controversy". Right before she's supposed to launch her book.
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Maybe it's a Scientology/Ted Cruz thing where he's artifically inflating the numbers due to bulk orders.
 
Sissy Galvez dijo:
http://redalertpolitics.com/2017/06...-set-outsell-amy-schumer-track-1-best-seller/

Has he really sold 65k books? That seems too high and there's no way he's hitting 250k.

Nice dig at Chelsea/Zoe Quinn, though. His book "publishes the only official account of what happened during the gamergate controversy". Right before she's supposed to launch her book.
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Is this for his Dangerous book?
If he sold so many books for that, why only 3 reviews? Not buying it.
https://www.novelrank.com/asin/069289344X
 
Sissy Galvez dijo:
Has he really sold 65k books? That seems too high and there's no way he's hitting 250k.
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There is no chance he has 65,000 preorders. The number is coming from his Instagram. He's 13th in political new releases on Amazon. Behind someone named Jen Hatmaker who's book doesn't even come out till August. I'm sure it'll sell fine in hardcore political circles but he's not selling mainstream numbers through some appearances on far-right podcasts.

65,000 preorders is an insane number with no mainstream publicity. Heck it's insane for even someone with mainstream publicity.

Also since he's self-publishing, you're telling me he printed those kind of copies and they're sitting in an Amazon warehouse right now? There's a reason why it's hard to self-publish huge sellers. Keeping up stock is not easy.
 
Plus Amazon does take into account people clicking on the actual listing of the book (and not the purchase) in their ranking system.

So I could have a Top Ten book on the Amazon listing but not have any sales, just because a lot of people are looking at the page.
 
Milo's book came out today. I guess soon enough we'll see how many copies he actually sold.

I'm only a few pages in and so far it's exactly what you'd expect from Milo: lots of jerking himself off about being a super trollololol.
 
Syaoran Li dijo:
I'm surprised that the liberal media hasn't caught onto the fact that Milo is an attention-whoring jackass who gets off on the controversy and the SJW shit-fits he generates with his comments. Honestly, if conservatism was mainstream like it was in the 80's, he'd be a transtrender SJW hipster with dyed hair instead of an alt-right troll.

He's essentially a low-tier /pol/ troll who acts like Paul Lynde, sleeps with random black dudes, and has a haircut that looks like a cross between Boris Johnson and Harry Potter. SJW's and the mainstream media act like he's the next Hitler, when in truth, he's more along the lines of Roger from American Dad, only even more pathetic.

TL;DR Milo Yiannopoulos is a pathetic edgelord and I would not have sex with him.
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ghostyTrickster dijo:
The fact that the only artists he can name are various porn artists really speaks volumes about his real "inspiration" for art, and by extension possibly his love for cartoons?
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Why you dissin my nigga Rodger?
 
I suspect this lawsuit falls into the same category as his claims that he was going to force his way back onto Twitter, but I'm no lawyer. And I must admit that book release party sounded pretty hilarious.

Milo Yiannopoulos Strikes Back

Milo Yiannopoulos, the former Breitbart tech editor and self-styled conservative provocateur whose public battle with Simon & Schuster following the publisher's decision to cancel his book deal and its reported $250,000 advance dominated the publishing news cycle earlier this year, has kept his promise to self-publish his book, Dangerous, in spite of the setback—and to continue to cause problems for S&S. Following the book's release on July 4, Yiannopoulos held a rally and protest outside the S&S offices on July 7, where he announced a $10 million lawsuit against the publisher for "breach of contract."

Dangerous was the #1 bestseller and #1 new release on Amazon immediately following its July 4 publication; Yiannopoulos's outside PR firm, AMW Public Relations, told PW that "100,000 copies were delivered to Amazon and sold out in the first day of release," although "a large number of them were on pre-order." (A source familiar with the sales of the book indicated that the 100,000 sales number sold through Amazon was too high.) Matt Sheldon, director of business development at the firm, said that hard copies are being distributed through Amazon and Barnes & Noble, adding that "100,000 more copies are being printed now and will be distributed to Amazon [and] B&N as well as some other outlets."

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As of the time of this article's publication, the book was #3 in overall book sales on the Amazon site despite being out of stock for more than two days. The book was also out of stock on BN.com—it wasn't clear if B&N is selling Dangerous through its stores.

At a rain-soaked rally on July 7 in Midtown Manhattan, about 100-150 fans and a large contingent of police lined the sidewalk by S&S's offices. There, just after noon, Yiannopoulos announced that he had filed a lawsuit against Simon & Schuster with the Supreme Court of the State of New York earlier that morning. S&S, he said, let him keep $80,000 of the advance he had been paid. He is seeking damages of "at least" $10 million. "They have to pay for silencing conservatives and libertarians," he said at the rally. "How many more books could I have sold...with their marketing muscle?"

Reached for comment, an S&S spokesperson issued the following statement to PW: "Although we have not been officially served, we believe that Yiannopoulos's lawsuit is publicity-driven and entirely without merit. Simon & Schuster will vigorously defend itself against any such action, and fully expects to prevail in court."

The night before the rally, to give a boost to the book, Yiannopoulos held a launch party at the DL on New York's Lower East Side, where supporters—mostly young, many wearing Make America Great Again hats—gathered to buy books and eagerly await the provocateur. The event was thrown by Milo Inc., Yiannopoulos's company, which Sheldon said received $12 million in funding from private investors.

The atmosphere was a far cry from that of the average Manhattan book launch. At 10:30, Yiannopoulos stormed the stage in a karategi, the traditional Japanese karate uniform, and engaged in stage combat with a number of actors, dressed in burkas and pink hats that have become a symbol of the Women's March on Washington, held the day after President Donald Trump's inauguration; prior to Yiannopoulos's appearance, a Hillary Clinton impersonator occupied a dunk tank on the third floor patio. A .38 pistol was used as a prop in the performance, and an NYPD officer on premises—there were upwards of 20 stationed outside the event—confirmed that it had been cleared with the department prior to the event.

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Yiannopoulos holds aloft a copy of 'Dangerous' at his launch party.



Sheldon said there were 450 in attendance; when Yiannopoulos appeared on stage, the room was busy but had not yet filled to capacity. In addition to the party, publicity for the book will include signings in a number of cities across the country, Sheldon said, including at the Luxe Hotel Horowitz Freedom Center in Los Angeles on July 14.

In an interview with PW, at the launch party, Yiannopoulos spoke to his feud with Simon & Schuster and what he sees as a major success for the book.

"It's a nice fuck you," Yiannopoulos said. "Their shareholders should be pretty angry right now, because it isn't going to stop at 100,000. We're seeing everything pick up and continuing to pick up. Orders from distributors and retailers are getting bigger, not smaller. I think I can sell half a million copies without breaking a sweat. Simon & Schuster's shareholders should be really, really pissed. And I'm really pissed at them—which is why I'm suing them."

Questioned about the "at will" clause included in most publishing contracts, Yiannopoulos said: "The reason they gave for termination was that the manuscript was unfit for publication. It's different from their texts and emails from two days before—and that is their problem.... It is, in my view, a clear-cut breach of contract. You can't send people texts and emails and say 'you done good' and that you're happy with the manuscript and looking forward to publishing it, full steam ahead, and then two days later say the manuscript is unfit for publication. Clearly, this is not the real reason. I think it's up to a jury to decide what the real reason was and to award me the damages that I'm owed for the reputational damage and how much it set my career back."

S&S, Yiannopoulos said, gave "extensive, exhaustive reviews" of his manuscript before terminating the agreement. Consequently, Yiannopoulos's former agent, Tom Flannery, who wrote an op-ed for PW in February defending Yiannopoulos's deal with S&S, edited the book for self-publication. Yiannopoulos told PW that he thinks "we're distributing with Salem, and I think Thomson Shore, split between the two because we have so many orders, we couldn't fill them all with one supplier. I think those two. Ingram's been buying from us, Amazon obviously putting in tens of thousands [of orders] at once."

Yiannopoulos added: "What Simon and Schuster did suggested to people that I was unfit to be published by a major publishing house. Clearly, based on sales, that is not true. Clearly, based on the reviews that are coming in, that is not true. And clearly from reading the book that's not true. I'm not Richard Spencer. I don't have any opinions that stretch wildly out of the conservative mainstream. I just say them in a provocative way, and I tell jokes that left-wingers don't like. And Simon & Schuster knew that, because in the contract I signed with them, it specifically calls me a provocateur. It calls me controversial. That's why they gave me the deal. Because I could sell books. And I'm demonstrating that I can."

This story has been updated with new information.
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The contract would've had a caveat about the company reserving the right to terminate it, wouldn't it?

"Can the representative of Simon and Schuster tell the court why they cancelled the deal?"
"He said pedophilia/pederasty was okay."
"Fair enough then."
 
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