{"id":580420,"date":"2021-07-02T19:50:50","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T23:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=580420"},"modified":"2021-07-02T19:50:53","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T23:50:53","slug":"michael-knowles-book-speechless-hits-no-1-on-amazon-new-york-times-still-silent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michael-knowles-book-speechless-hits-no-1-on-amazon-new-york-times-still-silent\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Knowles\u2019 Book \u2018Speechless\u2019 Hits No. 1 On Amazon, New York Times Still Silent"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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-book-speechless-hits-no-1-on-amazon-new-york-times-still-silent%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=580420&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\/Michael-Knowles.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Daily Wire host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Speechless-Controlling-Words-Minds\/dp\/1684510821\/ref=zg_bs_books_1?_encoding=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=MP0QGHH3NKZZ0DGZEY5R\">Michael Knowles\u2019 new book, \u201cSpeechless<\/a>,\u201d became the bestselling book on Amazon Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon is the world\u2019s largest online retailer for books, making <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/06\/23\/technology\/amazon-domination-bookstore-books.html\">more than half<\/a> of all book sales in the United States. Knowles\u2019 book surged to the top of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Speechless-Controlling-Words-Minds\/dp\/1684510821\/ref=zg_bs_books_1?_encoding=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=MP0QGHH3NKZZ0DGZEY5R\">online retailer\u2019s bestseller list<\/a> after being released last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHuge thanks for all the readers for making SPEECHLESS the #1 bestselling book across all categories on Amazon!\u201d Knowles said, touting the book\u2019s success on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.1808510638298\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Huge thanks for all the readers for making SPEECHLESS the #1 bestselling book across all categories on Amazon! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8mRr4rgnFd\">pic.twitter.com\/8mRr4rgnFd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaeljknowles\/status\/1411077360355622916?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Regnery, the publishing house for Knowles\u2019 book, also celebrated the news.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.1428571428571\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udf89\ud83c\udf89\ud83c\udf89\ud83c\udf89\ud83c\udf89\ud83c\udf89\ud83c\udf89 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/61Q4PezlAp\">https:\/\/t.co\/61Q4PezlAp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Regnery Publishing (@Regnery) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Regnery\/status\/1411088467543666690?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite his book\u2019s success on Amazon and other bestseller lists, \u201cSpeechless\u201d did not appear on the prestigious bestseller list for The New York Times. The Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/michael-knowles-top-selling-book-missing-from-nyt\">did not include<\/a> Knowles\u2019 book anywhere on its list despite the book posting huge sales numbers on other bestseller lists.<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"40.163265306122\">\n<p><em>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.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>That\u2019s according to&nbsp;<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.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>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&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/books\/best-sellers\/hardcover-nonfiction\/\">list<\/a>&nbsp;of the top 15 books for the same week.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>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.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Times lists O\u2019Reilly\u2019s book, \u201cKilling the Mob,\u201d in first place.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The criteria for making the Times list is a guarded secret in the book industry, and it is not clear how the Times selects the titles that do appear on its list. According to the Times, books are selected to its bestseller list based on data retrieved from select booksellers. \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 the Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/books\/best-sellers\/methodology\/\">says<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Regnery President Tom Spence expressed skepticism at the Times\u2019 criteria, saying that there should not be so large a gap between the Times\u2019 list and other bestseller lists even if the methodologies the same.<\/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 Spence told The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p>The Times defended leaving Knowles\u2019 book off its list, claiming that \u201cSpeechless\u201d did not \u201cmeet the standards for inclusion this week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur 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 a Times spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n<p>Knowles\u2019 book is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Speechless-Controlling-Words-Minds\/dp\/1684510821\/ref=zg_bs_books_1?_encoding=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=MP0QGHH3NKZZ0DGZEY5R\">available on Amazon<\/a> and other major online booksellers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/michael-knowles-top-selling-book-missing-from-nyt\">Michael Knowles Wrote The Top-Selling Nonfiction Book In The U.S. It\u2019s Mysteriously Absent From NYT\u2019s List<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>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 <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Wire host Michael Knowles\u2019 new book, \u201cSpeechless,\u201d became the bestselling book on Amazon Friday.Amazon is the world\u2019s largest online retailer for books, making more than half of all book &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313953,"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\/Michael-Knowles.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Michael Knowles\u2019 Book \u2018Speechless\u2019 Hits No. 1 On Amazon, New York Times Still Silent","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580420","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\/Michael-Knowles.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Michael Knowles\u2019 Book \u2018Speechless\u2019 Hits No. 1 On Amazon, New York Times Still Silent","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580420","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=580420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}