HarperCollins: ‘No Evidence’ of Manipulated Cruz Book Sales

The manner in which the Times finalizes its bestseller lists is deliberately kept secret to prevent people trying to rig the system, the Times’ Book Review staff editor Gregory Cowles told the Sacremento Bee.

In a statement to Buzzfeed, HarperCollins said that it had “investigated the sales pattern for Ted Cruz’s book” and “found no evidence of bulk orders or sales through any retailer or organization”.

Sen. Ted Cruz’s campaign tome, “A Time for Truth: Reigniting the Miracle of America”, has sold 11,854 copies.

In the statement, HarperCollins noted that Cruz’s book is “ranked high on other publishing industry bestseller lists”, including Nielsen Bookscan, The Wall Street Journal and Barnes and Noble. “ResultSource received a fee of $25,000 to coordinate a nationwide network of book buyers who would purchase Real Marriage at locations likely to generate reportable sales for various best-seller lists, including the New York Times list”, the World reported.

“The Times is presumably embarrassed by having their obvious partisan bias called out”, Cruz campaign spokesperson Rick Tyler said in a statement, the Daily Caller reports.”But their response – alleging “strategic bulk purchases” – is a blatant falsehood”.

There were no “strategic bulk purchases”. “The evidence is directly to the contrary”.

Pushed for clarification, Murphy said the Times has evidence suggesting Cruz’s book has performed as well as it has not because of genuine consumer interest, but because specific entities have been purchasing the book in bulk. “Booksellers at each event had long lines-sometimes over 400 people per event”.

The Cruz campaign has been able to provide no evidence that the books were organically purchased.

That’s more copies than numerous books on this week’s New York Times Bestsellers List, like Ann Coulter’s “Adios America” and Aziz Ansari’s “Modern Romance“.

HaperCollins, the publishing group behind the 2015 Republican presidential candidate’s book, was reportedly told by the Times that the senator’s work did not meet the newspaper’s standards for inclusion on the list.