Tucker Carlson’s biography publisher accuses Amazon of sabotaging sales after abysmal numbers showed just 3,000 copies were sold in first week
Tucker Carlson’s biography publisher has accused Amazon of sabotaging sales after abysmal numbers showed only 3,000 copies sold in its first week.
The book’s publisher, All Seasons Press, denounced the “cowardly forces” who have attempted to silence the former Fox News kingpin by reportedly reporting sales figures far short of the 66,750 units shipped to retailers.
DailyMail.com saw the numbers: A total of 7,523 copies of Chadwick Moore’s “Tucker” were shipped to Amazon during the week of July 24, while another 5,163 were shipped to the seller between August 1 and August 3.
With over 7,500 copies available in week one and given that Amazon sold out at launch, the publisher wondered, “How could these copies not have been sold and reported to BookScan?”
The figure reported by BookScan — 3,227 — would equal sales alone of Barnes & Nobles, Books-a-Million, Baker Taylor, and Walmart and Sam’s Club.
All Seasons Press alleges foul play in Amazon reporting numbers.
The book’s publisher, All Seasons Press, denounced the “cowardly forces” who have attempted to silence the former Fox News kingpin by reportedly reporting sales figures far short of the 66,750 units shipped to retailers
Amazon has also been accused of emailing pre-order customers asking them to cancel their orders, and fulfilling orders received post-launch before customers who pre-ordered the book.
The publisher also claims that when Amazon emailed pre-order customers, the seller had them log into a desktop computer to “proactively confirm they still want the book or it will be automatically canceled.”
The publisher said in a press release to DailyMail.com, “Despite what appears to be a concerted effort by Carlson’s opponents to prevent Tucker’s success, demand has been so strong that All Seasons Press has already ordered a second one. print.’
They said direct sales through the publisher are “nearly 6x the number of books reported by BookScan and the frenzied, error-ridden journalists.”
As a result, All Seasons Press plans to investigate BookScan’s ranking practices — and they said they will “forward these findings to the Federal Trade Commission as appropriate.”
Amazon has been contacted for comment.
The publisher said in a press release to DailyMail.com, “Despite what appears to be a concerted effort by Carlson’s opponents to prevent Tucker’s success, demand has been so strong that All Seasons Press has already ordered a second one. print’
Chadwick Moore’s new biography Tucker draws on more than 1,000 hours of interviews with Carlson that provide insight into the former Fox megastar’s formative relationship with his father, Dick Carlson.
Like Tucker, Dick was a journalist who believed in exposing his children to the excitement and roughness of his job from an early age, including taking them to a murder investigation and showing them the victim the sidewalk splattered.
Carlson describes his father as “a wonderful, devoted” parent, but one who gave his children strong independence by putting them in situations that were uncomfortable for some.
Though never much of a student, Carlson attended elite schools, where he got the right connections – in addition to those of his father and stepmother.
Tucker Carlson’s biography publisher has accused Amazon of sabotaging its sale after dire numbers showed it sold just 3,000 copies in its first week
In college, thanks to his father’s connections to Voice of America – the US state media outlet he ran for a while – he and his best friend Neil Patel spent two months in Central America during the Contra War.
Right out of college, Carlson and his new wife—whom he’d met in prep school—got into a comfortable life in the posh Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., where he worked for a while before briefly moving to Arkansas.
After a little over a year in Arkansas, the Carlsons headed back to D.C., where Carlson had “lobbied everyone he knew” for a job at the newly launched The Weekly Magazine—a conservative magazine that featured many of the top United States presidential advisers housed. nineties and early two thousand. It closes in 2018.
Looking back on his upbringing and his father, Tucker says he interprets his childhood as “something very positive.”
“(My dad) once said to me, Life is hard sometimes, but it’s not that hard to be happy if you put your mind to it,” Tucker said during a speech in Iowa in 2022.
“And my father’s happiness comes from his family – we have the closest family in the world … So in every way he is a model to me.”