Most people are familiar with the Best Seller list. It is a coveted and illustrious honor to make that list, and every author dreams of having their work land somewhere, anywhere on it. Logically, most people might assume the Best Seller list is based on which books sell the most copies. Patterson did as well, until he noticed a recent best seller was not included.
Boomers gonna boom. Guess what else the NYT cooked for you?
The NYT has been publishing a fake “best sellers” list for a long time. Dave Rubin mentioned it recently.
It’s simply amazing that some still consider NYT to be credible news source.
“I’m a longtime reader of The New York Times. Since 1971, when I first moved to New York City, I’ve devoured your paper. Every. Single. Day.”
I think I see the problem.
After that first paragraph, I read the rest only so no one could say I hadn’t. It pretty much summed up the author wasn’t too bright to begin with. It’s very doubtful any of her prose is worth picking up.
Her? James Patterson. Maybe YOU have as reading problem.
All the Times is good for is Wordle.
I just assume anything from the mainstream media, politicians and bureaucrats is a lie now.
Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus.
1) Couple years ago, an author -purchased- a spot on the NY Slimes Best Seller list for a YA title by buying something like 12,000 advance copies of the title. Handbook for Mortals by Lani Sarem was the book. Big scandal, go look it up.
2) This trick worked because the Best Seller List is not based off any reputable measure of sales. It is based on the sales from certain outlets that the NYT keeps “secret”. So that when Barry’s new book needs to be on the BSL, Barry’s literary agents know where to go buy a pallet of them to jack his numbers. Another scandal, but nobody ever says anything about this one because they’re in on it.
3) Book Scan is also not really a measure of sales. It is something else that approximates sales. The American publishing industry doesn’t really have sales numbers, by design. That way, irate authors can’t subpoena those numbers in court, allowing the publishers to radically under-count sales and under-pay the author’s share. That too is a scandal of epic proportion, which no one ever, EVER talks about.
4) And sometimes they just f–ing well lie. This does appear to be one of those times.
I’ve read all his books, and he mentions CNN and demorats regularly so what’s his problem he’s one of them isn’t he?
Back in the day – and this is a long time ago – realized that any movie “Time” magazine lauded would be boring and totally uninteresting. On the other hand, movies they panned were usually decent.