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NYTimes Moves Cruz Behind Jimmy Carter on Bestseller List Despite Selling 58% More Books
The Weekly Standard ^ | July 23, 2015 | Daniel Halper

Posted on 07/23/2015 5:54:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The latest New York Times bestseller list has Ted Cruz's A Time for Truth at number 8. Just above him is former President Jimmy Carter's A Full Life, coming in at 7.

The strange thing, however, is that Cruz sold almost 60 percent more copies of his book last week than Carter.

According to Bookscan, which tracks the number of books sold, Cruz sold 8,814 last week. Carter sold only 5,147.

The New York Times list does not indicate either author's books were purchased in bulk orders.

Cruz was left off the list the first week his book came out after the Times claimed there had been bulk orders of the new volume. Both Cruz and his publisher, HarperCollins, denied evidence of bulks orders.

In a statement, Cruz spokesman Rick Tyler says, "It’s no surprise that the liberal New York Times would prop up progressive Jimmy Carter over a conservative like Ted Cruz. But to do so in light of Cruz’s book selling 58 percent more copies last week than Carter’s reaffirms the Times’ questionable standards being used to determine its bestseller list. New York Times has a responsibility to its authors and readers to uphold fair standards, and we stand by our call for Public Editor Margaret Sullivan examine its methodology."

Cruz also accomplished something rare. In the second week of his book being on the shelves, he sold 7,051 copies. In the third week, the number was 8,814. It's considered rare for a political book to increase its sales with time.

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Politics
KEYWORDS: 2016election; atimefortruth; cancer; cruz; demagogicparty; election2016; georgia; jimmuh; jimmycarter; memebuilding; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; pages; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; publishing; tedcruz; texas

1 posted on 07/23/2015 5:54:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I can’t imagine why anyone would spend money on a book written by Jimmah.


2 posted on 07/23/2015 5:57:24 PM PDT by dforest
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To: dforest

Agreed. That’s a petty political gesture by the NY Times.


3 posted on 07/23/2015 6:06:22 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
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4 posted on 07/23/2015 6:09:41 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Kale; Jarhead9297; COUNTrecount; notaliberal; DoughtyOne; MountainDad; ...
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5 posted on 07/23/2015 6:23:21 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Here we go again!


6 posted on 07/23/2015 6:26:56 PM PDT by Isara
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

2ND, they purposely ignore Cruz, even unlike Obola he was in DC to do his job.


7 posted on 07/23/2015 6:53:40 PM PDT by Undecided 2012
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To: Undecided 2012

Well, I’m still raising plenty of money for him, as you can see by my tagline.


8 posted on 07/23/2015 6:56:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Thanks, hopefully other freepers will see the light


9 posted on 07/23/2015 7:02:50 PM PDT by Undecided 2012
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To: dforest

**I can’t imagine why anyone would spend money on a book written by Jimmah.**

Not hard to imagine at all. There are lots of “people with more money than brains”, as my ol’ dad used to say.


10 posted on 07/23/2015 7:05:47 PM PDT by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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i think this confirms libtards cannot do math. youd think the budget would have convinced people. ‘oh well.


11 posted on 07/23/2015 7:09:55 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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The New York Slimes becomes less relevant by the minute. If these jokers are fiddling their best seller book list, which is being tracked by other trackers like Bookscan and can easily be cross checked, why on earth would any conservative actually have any belief whatsoever in ANY New York Slimes poll? I can recall quite a few blatant examples of the Slimes deliberately coming out with fraudulent polls at the last minute in favor of the Democrats in order to influence an election. Scott Brown's election fight to the US Senate comes to mind
12 posted on 07/24/2015 1:37:56 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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And when Carter's sales turn out to have been mostly "bulk sales", the Slimes will shrug. Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.

13 posted on 07/26/2015 12:44:40 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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