The data below comes almost entirely from the Publisher’s Weekly lists of the biggest fiction bestsellers in the United States. I repeatedly regaled my colleagues with fun and interesting facts like: “Did you know that in 1940 the best-selling book of the year was How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn? That was also the year The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and Native Son came out!” They made me stop eventually, and so I compiled all my comments into this very piece you are now reading. Last month, while working on the not-at-all-controversial Books That Defined the Decades series, I was often surprised by the dissonance between the books that sold well in any given year and the books that we now consider relevant, important, or illustrative of the time. And James Patterson’s expose-all tour has become one of his most influential works to date.As the year draws to a close, some of us like to look forward, and some of us backward-and some way backward. Political correctness has infested sales charts, the hiring processes, and the ability to promote a book. “I had no trouble getting on Fox,” Patterson told host Doug Brunt about promoting the book. Patterson recently told SiriusXM that CNN and MSNBC banned him from promoting his newest book, “Walk the Blue Line,” because it portrayed a fictitious police officer as heroic. Last summer, he revealed that publishing companies were openly rejecting titles from white male authors, no matter their skill. He has sold over 420 million books and has set his sights on exposing the political biases within the genre. Ultimately, James Patterson has become a menace to the book industry. So, your skepticism will be warranted when you click on the Twitter bio of a progressive author touting their “New York Times Best Seller” status. The New York Times Best Seller List is not dissimilar to the Apple Podcast chart, where downloads are a factor but anonymous employees have the ability to raise or lower a title no matter its success. Still no word on why Pompeo’s top-selling book did not make a list of so-called top-selling books. Patterson’s books have ranked on our Best-Seller lists over 4,000 times. For more information about the confidential reporting process or how books make our lists, please see our methodology and this explainer on the best-seller lists. Our bestsellers lists are based on detailed analysis of book sales from a wide range of retailers, tens of thousands of brick-and-mortar stores of all sizes, and numerous online book-selling vendors to best represent what is selling across the United States. Patterson to let him know that we take his concerns seriously and are always reviewing our methods in compiling the Best-Seller Lists to ensure that we are best serving our readers. The following answer can be attributed to me or a spokesperson for The New York Times: Here’s what The Times said about its “confidential reporting process.” We asked: “What metrics does the best seller list use if raw numbers are not the only metric?”Ī spokesperson responded but hardly addressed our question. Thereby, OutKick sent an inquiry to the New York Times Best Seller press department, asking for clarification. One might wonder what methods the best-seller list uses to calculate its ranking if sales are not the bible. fr5NfX7uME- James Patterson MaNew York Times Best-Seller List Criteria Is Ever-Changing They told my publisher they didn’t rely on just “raw” sales.
I recently wrote a letter about them cooking the books on their best seller lists.
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