David Wilcock’s New Book Outsold Hitlary’s But Is Not Top of the NYT Bestseller List?

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September 18, 2016

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Here is David Wilcock’s post:

http://divinecosmos.com/start-here/davids-blog/1205-asc-m-11

As a writer, I don’t find this surprising. Many are mislead by the process and misunderstand the implied ratings of the New York Times’ Best Seller designation. As an author, Wilcock must know this.

The exact method for compiling the data obtained from the booksellers is classified as a trade secret.

Book Review staff editor Gregory Cowles explained the method “is a secret both to protect our product and to make sure people can’t try to rig the system. Source: Wikipedia

Well, the NYT as a government propaganda outlet would know all about “rigging the system”.

Translation: They have a secret, super-complicated algorithm like Google does for rating websites and processing search returns! Logic need not apply.

My understanding from writers I know: Best sellers don’t qualify by literally selling the most books, as one would think.

Ratings depend on how many books were ORDERED—pre-publication—by book stores, wholesalers, etc.

This is NOT a reflection of how many actual books sold.

So… who has the best marketing program/firm, etc.? That’s the question. And whose material is taboo? That’s the other question.

Knowing what you know, isn’t it expected that Hitlary’s book, “Stronger Together” would generate a lot more pre-orders from book stores, news stands, etc. than David Wilcock’s would? Fiction usually outsells fact, doesn’t it?

And who owns the media? (95% of it)

If the actual figures were known—and they should be eventually—they would tell the true story.

Wilcock’s book may very well outsell Hitlary’s. One must ask how many unsold copies of “Stronger Together” lie languishing in bookstores and store rooms  six months from now, eventually winding up at Goodwill, donated to Libraries, and available through Amazon for $2.00. This is as yet unknown, but anticipated.

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Hitlary… give it a rest. We already know far TOO MUCH about you, honey.

Here’s the reality of book sales from Wikipedia… but I have to hand it to you David—a good excuse for a marketing article.  ~ BP

From Wikipedia…

The list is compiled by the editors of the “News Surveys” department, not by The New York Times Book Review department, where it is published.[6] It is based on weekly sales reports obtained from selected samples of independent and chain bookstores and wholesalers throughout the United States.[6] The sales figures are widely believed to represent books that have actually been sold at retail, rather than wholesale,[7] as the Times surveys booksellers in an attempt to better reflect what is purchased by individual buyers. Some books are flagged with a dagger indicating that a significant number of bulk orders had been received by retail bookstores.[8]

The New York Times reported in 2013 that “we [generally do not] track the sales of classic literature,” and thus, for example, new translations of Dante’s Inferno would not be found on the bestseller list.[9]

The exact method for compiling the data obtained from the booksellers is classified as a trade secret.[5] Book Review staff editor Gregory Cowles explained the method “is a secret both to protect our product and to make sure people can’t try to rig the system. Even in the Book Review itself, we don’t know (the news surveys department’s) precise methods.”[6] In 1992, the survey encompassed over 3,000 bookstores as well as “representative wholesalers with more than 28,000 other retail outlets, including variety stores and supermarkets.”[5] By 2004, the number was 4,000 bookstores as well as an unstated number of wholesalers.[4] Data is adjusted to give more weight to independent book stores, which are underrepresented in the sample.[4]

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