Conservative publisher wants nothing more to do with Times
Source: Associated Press
By DAVID BAUDER
Today
NEW YORK (AP) A company that publishes books by Laura Ingraham, Mark Levin, Ann Coulter and other conservative authors says it wants nothing to do anymore with The New York Times and its best-seller list.
Regnery Publishing said on Monday it will no longer recognize the Times accounting of book sales, meaning its writers can no longer claim to be New York Times best-selling authors. Thats a big deal in the book business.
Regnery is annoyed that its book The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left was only No. 7 on the Times latest best-sellers list even though another organization that tracks sales ranked it No. 1. Regnery says another of its books, No Go Zones: How Sharia Law is Coming to a Neighborhood Near You, is also not ranked as highly by the Times as it deserves to be.
The Times noted that conservative authors have routinely ranked high and in great numbers on its best-sellers list.
Our goal is that the lists reflect authentic best sellers, Times spokesman Jordan Cohen said. The political views of authors have no bearing on our rankings, and the notion that we would manipulate the lists to exclude books for political reasons is simply ludicrous.
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Glorfindel
(9,739 posts)and they want everyone else to do so. The two books cited are perfect examples of the distorted world-view of idiotic conservatives. The ridiculous titles alone make that perfectly clear.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)to give out as freebies at meetings, such as CPAC.
Roy Rolling
(6,941 posts)Always playing the victim card, they will say "should be #1 in the world, except those meanies at the NY Times keep it hidden."
The irony is how the brain dead right crows how strong Trump and the gang are, yet are also such poor, hapless victims of circumstance.
TomVilmer
(1,832 posts)They seems to be the doing like "The Asylum" does for movies - making any appealing sh*t possible for sale.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)Huge bulk sales so every right wing sewer on the internet could give away a copy with a donation and at the end of the day these books wound up in the $1 bin. So now they're whining that the NY Times wont let them cheat anymore.
BumRushDaShow
(129,662 posts)It's a shame it took the NYT so long to apparently catch on to the scam.
exactly
DK504
(3,847 posts)As they buy hundreds of thousands of copies and hand them out like the little Red Book.
katmondoo
(6,457 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,665 posts)...don't read books.
Of course there's chicanery in accounting at Regnery.
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)Grins
(7,239 posts)That would be Dinesh D'Souza's shitty tome, a book so bad that World Nut Daily marked it for the remaindered bin dropping the price from $17.99 to $4.95 a mere five days after publication!
Maybe readers are fed up with such dreck from someone so stupid he didn't know that he needed to be divorced before becoming betrothed and fucking his next also-married mistress...?
Paladin
(28,277 posts)The NY Times would be well rid of any connection to Regnery, just as soon as possible.
mainer
(12,033 posts)Are they not going to send books to the NYT for review? The Times compiles the bestseller list with or without any publisher's cooperation.