Why, it demanded, was D’Souza’s new book The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left ranked as seventh on the Times’s hardcover nonfiction list when Nielsen BookScan’s data, per Regnery’s interpretation, suggested it should be first? Regnery concluded that the New York Times was actively conspiring against conservative titles, and announced that it would sever all ties with the Times.
Shortly thereafter, the Times removed the book from its rankings.Īnd on September 4, Regnery Books - the conservative publishing imprint that publishes Ann Coulter and Dinesh D'Souza, among others - denounced the New York Times best-seller list as biased against conservatives. Handbook f or Mortals by Lani Sarem bought its way onto the list, they concluded, with the publisher and author strategically ordering large numbers of the book from stores that report their sales to the New York Times. But as a scrappy band of investigators who congregated in the YA Twitter community discovered, it wasn’t because a lot of people were reading the book. On August 24, an unknown book by an unknown author from an unknown publisher rocketed its way to first place on the Times’s young adult hardcover best-seller list. And it’s happened not just once but twice.
Over the past few weeks, scandal has rocked the august institution of the New York Times best-seller list.
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