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Posted on 07/10/2015 2:28:10 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
Publisher HarperCollins and Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign pushed back at the New York Times for claiming that sales of the GOP candidate’s new biography were enhanced by “strategic bulk purchases.”
In a statement to BuzzFeed News Friday, HarperCollins publicity director Tina Andreadis alleged that the publishing company conducted an investigation into sales of A Time For Truth and “found no evidence of bulk orders or sales through any retailer or organization.”
Politico first reported Thursday that the Times had blocked Cruz’s book from its upcoming bestsellers list even as sales of hard cover copies of the biography reached 11,854 during its first week on shelves.
Cruz’s sales beat all titles save two on the forthcoming Times’ list.
When questioned about the decision, Times spokeswoman Eileen Murphy explained, “We have uniform standards that we apply to our best seller list, which includes an analysis of book sales that goes beyond simply the number of books sold. This book didn’t meet that standard this week.”
She later clarified that there was an “overwhelming preponderance of evidence” that sales of Cruz’s biography were “limited to strategic bulk purchases.”
However, HarperCollins disputed the Times’ claim, emphasizing that Cruz’s book currently sits on bestsellers lists compiled by Nielsen Bookscan, Barnes and Noble and the Wall Street Journal, all of which exclude bulk sales when they conduct their rankings.
The Cruz campaign also fired back at the Times Friday in a press release, accusing the publication of spreading “false” information about the GOP presidential candidate’s book sales.
“The Times is presumably embarrassed by having their obvious partisan bias called out. But their response — alleging ‘strategic bulk purchases’ — is a blatant falsehood,” Cruz campaign spokesperson Rick Tyler said in a statement. “The evidence is directly to the contrary. In leveling this false charge, the Times has tried to impugn the integrity of Senator Cruz and of his publisher Harper Collins.”
“We call on the Times, release your so-called ‘evidence,’” Tyler continued. “Demonstrate that your charge isn’t simply a naked fabrication, designed to cover up your own partisan agenda. And, if you cannot do so, then issue a public apology to Senator Cruz and Harper Collins editor Adam Bellow for making false charges against them.”
The Times spokesman told Politico Friday that the publication is sticking to its original statement.
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Ted Cruz Ping! The Times also ignores book sales of the Bible
That’s right. Call them on it. Prove it or STFU.
Its okay when Hillary does it.
Oh, yeah, now I remember! Isn’t that the same reason they took Hillary’s book off the list?
...no, wait....
His book went from from 219 to 27 in less than 24 hours on Amazon’s best seller list..
They have to notice that.
It is becoming clear that there are no honest rankings. The Slimes is judging Politically, Annie’s book may be there, but they might be afraid of her.
Self ping.
And the message is, “Forget the NY Times best seller list as it is phony.” If you want to know whether a book is worth purchasing and reading, then go to amazon.com and read the REAL reader reviews, posted by REAL people, not some wise-ass left wing NY Times writer.
Go Ted, go!
Trump is rubbing off on Ted. :-)
What would you expect when Carlos Slim is the NYT sugar daddy.
Projection. A huge chunk of Hitlary’s book sales are bulk but the NYT ignores that. They instead impure bulk sales to Cruz based solely on their leftscum bias.
I bought a hard copy from Amaon, and a copy from Audible. I highly recommend the Audible version. You can listen to it in the car, or while you are doing housework. :)
Trump is rubbing off on Ted. :-)I dunno, I think we better get real here. This is pretty pathetic compared to what Trump is doing and saying.
Cruz is beginning to look real small compared to Trump.
Ted Cruz’s campaign took in $50 million dollars during the second quarter, mostly in small donations, so it makes sense that his book would be attracting his many donors and therefore topping the best-seller lists.
But does it make any difference? While Ted Cruz is fighting the New York Times, Donald Trump is fighting illegal immigration by making it a major issue that must be addressed. While illegal immigrants are murdering and raping Americans and overwhelming America’s social-service resources, the New York Times is simply lying as usual.
If Donald Trump is the only Republican presidential candidate willing to stand up for Americans against a major problem — the growing danger of illegal immigration — what do we need other candidates for?
I downloaded my book at about 12:17am on June 27th from Amazon after I tried to leave a SIUYA* message when it wouldn’t download at 12:01am
* Shove It Up Your ......
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