Amazon, N.Y. Times Sabotaged ‘Tucker’ Book Release: Reports

Meanwhile, the demand for “Tucker” has been so great that All Seasons Press announced Aug. 16 that it had “already ordered a second printing.”

At press time, “Tucker” was listed as #3 on Publishers Weekly’s “Hardcover Frontlist Nonfiction,” rising from #15 the previous week. It reports year-to-date sales of nearly 15,000 (printed) books in just the three weeks since it “Tucker” went on sale.

All Seasons Press knocked down the “book flop” and “Tucker’s irrelevance” narratives with facts like these:

• At the time Tucker launched over 50,000 units had been shipped to retailers, including 7,523 units to Amazon.
• Direct sales though the publisher of almost 6x the number of books reported by BookScan and the frenzied, error-ridden journalists.
• When the book’s pre-sale was announced, the book reached #14 among All Books on Amazon, and #1 numerous categories.

Since the book was listed as “SOLD OUT” by Amazon on its launch day, the publisher asks these questions:

• Did Amazon sell out of their 7,512 units almost immediately?
• If so, we weren’t those sales reported to BookScan?
• If they did not sell out of their 7,513 unit inventory, why did they announce that the book was sold out and unavailable for sale?

‘Do you want to cancel your order’?

City Journal reported Aug. 22 on another facet of the “Tucker” book saga: “Amazon fulfilled post-publication orders before shipping books to customers who’d preordered Tucker. And after describing the book as ‘Sold Out,’ Amazon didn’t order more copies from the publisher; on the contrary – and quite incredibly – it ’emailed many preorder customers to ask if they wanted to cancel their orders,’ and required them ‘to go on a desktop, not the app, and proactively confirm they still wanted the book or the order would automatically cancel.’”

In other words, writes City Journal’s Bruce Bawer: “Amazon made it easy for customers to cancel their orders and made it difficult for them to confirm their orders. What merchant eager to sell a product behaves in such a way? When you add it all up, it looks suspicious.”

“Our customer poll revealed 40% of Amazon customers who had pre-ordered Tucker, many as far back as May, had not received their copies ten days after launch. Amazon sales are not reported until a customer’s credit card is charged and the order ships, so the BookScan number does not reflect a significant number of Amazon pre-orders,” All Seasons Press’ Aug. 16 statement states.

At press time, “Tucker” was at #12 on the New York Times best-seller list for “Hardcover Nonfiction,” even though according to Publisher’s Weekly, its sales have eclipsed those of books higher on the list. For example, “trans” actor Elliot (formerly Ellen) Page’s book, “Page Boy,” sits at #6 on the Times’ nonfiction list but it is way down at #25 on PW’s nonfiction list (where “Tucker” is #3).

Vox reports the New York Times book-sellers list is by far the most important and influential of all such lists.

Amazon is now quickly filling orders for “Tucker”: this reporter placed an order on Amazon for a hardcover copy of the book and was notified that it will be delivered Friday. In addition to other retail stores and sites, the book is also available for purchase directly from the publisher HERE.

Back when he was Fox News’ most popular host, Carlson ripped the New York Times precisely for the same “dishonesty” of skewing its book sellers list:

Tucker Carlson reports that the New York Times is lying about the number one best selling book

It’s Alex Jones’ book

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— Blair (@skifflegirl) September 13, 2022

Moore suggests Fox News angle

As for book author Moore, he sent out a tweet Tuesday suggested that Fox News (without mention the name; Fox famously fired Tucker in April) was linked to the sales reporting scam: “Who do you think might have an interest in portraying Tucker as irrelevant without mainstream media? And do you think those people might have someone’s phone number at Amazon? Liberal media was then happy to be spoon-fed a false, negative story about #TuckerTheBook, one that read exactly like it written by a Media Relations Dept at a certain cable news channel. … Amazon has an easy way out. Pretend the false numbers were just a reporting mistake. A glitch. Oops! Our bad! … None of this was about me. I was just caught in the middle.”

Who do you think might have an interest in portraying Tucker as irrelevant without mainstream media? And do you think those people might have someone’s phone number at Amazon? Liberal media was then happy to be spoon-fed a false, negative story about #TuckerTheBook, one that read… https://t.co/6wwA5ayzaT

— Chadwick Moore (@Chadwick_Moore) August 22, 2023

As WND reported Wednesday, a whistleblower at Fox News told Moore that any mention of Tucker’s interview with Donald Trump — set to air just before the Fox News GOP debate’s scheduled to begin Wednesday night — was “banned” on the network, the “Tucker” author said in an interview.

Fox News ‘banned from mentioning Tucker’s show with Donald Trump’

Ironically, one of the media outlets that relished reporting the alleged "flop" of "Tucker," using dubious numbers, was the Advocate, a magazine targeting the LGBT population, where Moore was occasionally published. The Advocate headline reads: "A Gay Conservative Wrote a Fawning Tome on Tucker Carlson. It Flopped." Here is the lead paragraph: "A newly published biography of fired Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson is not doing well in sales. The book, authored by gay conservative Chadwick Moore, sold only 3,000 copies in its first week of publication, which ended August 1."

The last line is: "Editor’s note: Chadwick Moore contributed to The Advocate several times between 2014 and 2016."

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