{"id":579293,"date":"2021-07-01T19:35:48","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T23:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=579293"},"modified":"2021-07-01T19:35:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T23:35:51","slug":"michael-knowles-wrote-the-top-selling-nonfiction-book-in-the-u-s-its-mysteriously-absent-from-nyts-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michael-knowles-wrote-the-top-selling-nonfiction-book-in-the-u-s-its-mysteriously-absent-from-nyts-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Knowles Wrote The Top-Selling Nonfiction Book In The U.S. It\u2019s Mysteriously Absent From NYT\u2019s List"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmichael-knowles-wrote-the-top-selling-nonfiction-book-in-the-u-s-its-mysteriously-absent-from-nyts-list%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=579293&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1041123302-nyt.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Daily Wire host Michael Knowles\u2019 new book, \u201cSpeechless,\u201d sold nearly 18,000 copies in the week ending June 26, making it the top-selling nonfiction work in the country \u2014 far ahead of the second- and third-place books by Bill O\u2019Reilly and Malcolm Gladwell, at nearly 13,000 and just over 9,000, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/pw\/nielsen\/HardcoverNonfiction.html\">Publisher\u2019s Weekly<\/a>, which gets its data from NPD BookScan, the industry\u2019s most comprehensive count of book sales.<\/p>\n<p>But you wouldn\u2019t know it from reading The New York Times. The Times\u2019 prestigious \u201cbestseller list\u201d does not include \u201cSpeechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds\u201d at all in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/books\/best-sellers\/hardcover-nonfiction\/\">list<\/a> of the top 15 books for the same week.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, it lists books like \u201cOn Juneteenth,\u201d which according to BookScan sold only 4,774 copies that week, or just over a quarter as many as Knowles\u2019 book. At #13, it lists \u201cSomebody\u2019s Daughter,\u201d a \u201cmemoir about growing up a poor Black girl in Indiana with a family fragmented by incarceration\u201d that does not appear anywhere in Publisher\u2019s Weekly\u2019s list of the top 25 nonfiction books.<\/p>\n<p>The Times lists O\u2019Reilly\u2019s book, \u201cKilling the Mob,\u201d in first place.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times says its list is based on sales figures, but it gets its data on a \u201cconfidential basis\u201d from select booksellers, then estimates total sales based on extrapolation. \u201cThe panel of reporting retailers is comprehensive and reflects sales in tens of thousands of stores of all sizes and demographics across the United States,\u201d its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/books\/best-sellers\/methodology\/\">methodology<\/a> says.<\/p>\n<p>That means the Times numbers aren\u2019t expected to track exactly with BookScan, which forms the basis for lists published by The Wall Street Journal and other publications.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Tom Spence, the president of Regnery, the publishing house responsible for Knowles\u2019 book, said that if a book reported to have vastly outsold every other nonfiction work per BookScan, but didn\u2019t even rank in the top 15 by the Times\u2019 measure, something was wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne result of the BookScan service, which now reports almost all retail book sales, is that there are two kinds of bestseller lists: those that reflect how many books have been sold, and the New York Times list, which reflects \u2014 who knows what? The omission (once again) of the week\u2019s bestselling book from the Times\u2019 so-called bestseller list confirms that fact-free journalism has found a comfortable home at the former newspaper of record,\u201d he told The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for the Times did not say how many copies its numbers showed Knowles\u2019 book selling, saying only that: \u201cThe sales of the book did not meet the standards for inclusion this week. Our best sellers team will continue to track this title and will rank it, if its sales meet our standards for inclusion for future weeks. Recent lists have included other books published by Regenery [sic] including those by Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe New York Times\u2019s best-seller lists are based on a detailed analysis of book sales from a wide range of retailers who provide us with specific and confidential context of their sales each week. These standards are applied consistently, across the board in order to provide Times readers our best assessment of what books are the most broadly popular at that time,\u201d she said in an email.<\/p>\n<p>According to the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2018\/04\/17\/the-new-york-times-best-seller-list-another-reason-americans-dont-trust-the-media\/\"> Daily Signal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"17\">\n<p><i>In the early 1980s, William Peter Blatty, author of the monumental best-seller \u201cThe Exorcist,\u201d sued The New York Times for only listing his novel on the list one time, even though it sold in the millions. In defending itself before the court, as reported by Book History, the annual journal of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (Penn State University Press), the Times said, \u201cThe list did not purport to be an objective compilation of information but instead was an editorial product.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>More recently in 2019, the Times listed Barack Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett\u2019s book on its bestseller list, even though it was <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/04\/14\/valerie-jarrett-book-manipulation\/\">#1,030<\/a> on Amazon, where it had only three customer reviews, and #1,244 at Barnes and Noble.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Wire host Michael Knowles\u2019 new book, \u201cSpeechless,\u201d sold nearly 18,000 copies in the week ending June 26, making it the top-selling nonfiction work in the country \u2014 far ahead &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313886,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1041123302-nyt.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Michael Knowles Wrote The Top-Selling Nonfiction Book In The U.S. It\u2019s Mysteriously Absent From NYT\u2019s List","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1041123302-nyt.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Michael Knowles Wrote The Top-Selling Nonfiction Book In The U.S. It\u2019s Mysteriously Absent From NYT\u2019s List","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}