{"id":586911,"date":"2021-07-09T11:20:55","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T15:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=586911"},"modified":"2021-07-09T11:20:59","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T15:20:59","slug":"robin-diangelos-new-book-bombs-with-one-fifth-as-many-debut-week-sales-as-michael-knowles-you-will-believe-which-one-made-nyt-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/robin-diangelos-new-book-bombs-with-one-fifth-as-many-debut-week-sales-as-michael-knowles-you-will-believe-which-one-made-nyt-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Robin DiAngelo\u2019s New Book Bombs, With One-Fifth As Many Debut-Week Sales As Michael Knowles\u2019. You Will Believe Which One Made NYT 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\">44<\/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%2Frobin-diangelos-new-book-bombs-with-one-fifth-as-many-debut-week-sales-as-michael-knowles-you-will-believe-which-one-made-nyt-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=586911&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-1227673155-diangelo-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Robin DiAngelo\u2019s new book sold fewer than 3,500 copies in its first week, suggesting that people are tired of the sort of racial lectures that sold one million copies of her earlier \u201cWhite Privilege.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet the New York Times placed it on its new \u201cBest Sellers\u201d list, which the week prior entirely omitted Daily Wire host Michael Knowles\u2019 book on censorship, \u201cSpeechless,\u201d despite selling 18,000 copies in a week.<\/p>\n<p>Knowles\u2019 book was absent from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/books\/best-sellers\/hardcover-nonfiction\/\">NYT nonfiction list<\/a> again in the new installment, covering the week ending July 3, even though comprehensive data from industry tracker NPD BookScan, and used by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/pw\/nielsen\/HardcoverNonfiction.html\">Publishers Weekly<\/a>, showed that it sold more than 6,500 copies during that time period, which was the book\u2019s second week.<\/p>\n<p>That is about double DiAngelo\u2019s figure, even though debut weeks include all pre-sales and are typically a book\u2019s best week. However, \u201cWhite Fragility\u2019s\u201d mammoth sales could be attributed partly to institutions making the book mandatory reading for teachers, college students and others, as opposed to a book individuals buy upon release because they are actually eager to read it.<\/p>\n<p>Under typical formulas, \u201cWhite Fragility\u2019s\u201d one million copies sold would mean about $4 million in royalties to the white anti-racist author.<\/p>\n<p>DiAngelo\u2019s newest work, released June 29, is called \u201cNice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm.\u201d As of Thursday night, it was ranked #2,288 among all books on Amazon, where it had only 13 reviews \u2014 many of them sarcastic.<\/p>\n<p>Knowles\u2019 book, whose full title is \u201cSpeechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds\u201d and which was released June 22, is ranked #23 on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Speechless-Controlling-Words-Minds\/dp\/1684510821\/\">Amazon,<\/a> where it has 178 reviews.<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for the Times did not immediately return a request for the Times\u2019 estimate of sales figures that lead to the rankings. Unlike BookScan, the Times does not publish the quantity sold, only a ranking. It says that ranking is based purely on sales, as extrapolated through a sample of book stores that send the newspaper their sales data confidentially.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, when The Daily Wire noted that the Times did not put Knowles\u2019 book anywhere on its list of the top 15 nonfiction books despite the BookScan data pegging it as the top-selling book in the country, the Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/michael-knowles-top-selling-book-missing-from-nyt\">said<\/a> 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/taibbi.substack.com\/p\/our-endless-dinner-with-robin-diangelo\">Matt Taibbi<\/a> read DiAngelo\u2019s latest and penned a scathing review, writing:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"17\">\n<p>Reading DiAngelo is like being strapped to an ice floe in a vast ocean while someone applies metronome hammer-strikes to the the same spot on your temporal bone over and over. You hear ideas repeated ten, twenty, a hundred times, losing track of which story is which. \u2026<\/p>\n<p>When she goes through the list of arguments people make in favor of the idea that they can or should exist beyond race, she concludes ominously, \u201cNone of these factors provides immunity.\u201d The idea that \u201ccontinually\u201d availing oneself of DiAngeloid antiracist training is a requirement to remain above suspicion is an explicit warning.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\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&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robin DiAngelo\u2019s new book sold fewer than 3,500 copies in its first week, suggesting that people are tired of the sort of racial lectures that sold one million copies of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2314337,"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-1227673155-diangelo-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Robin DiAngelo\u2019s New Book Bombs, With One-Fifth As Many Debut-Week Sales As Michael Knowles\u2019. 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