I Saw Oppenheimer Twice, in Standard Format and IMAX. When Catholics Realized Sinéad O’Connor Was Right ![]() The One Part of Barbie I Absolutely Cannot Forgive BookScan numbers were what convinced Patterson his book had been given short shrift the Times, in reply, apparently told Patterson what they have long insisted: that such “raw” data is not sufficient. The service that publishers consider the most reliable source for such data, NPD BookScan, often shows major discrepancies with the New York Times’ list, but by the company’s own admission, BookScan only tracks 85 percent of print sales in the U.S. Contrary to what many people seem to think, there is no practical way to count all the copies of any book that have sold in a given week-not from every bookstore and airport, and especially not from drugstores, gift shops, mail-order companies, Amazon, big-box retailers, book clubs, etc. ![]() The New York Times bestseller lists (there are more than a dozen of them) are the product of a lot of math, but also a good deal of art. ![]() Outraged, Patterson calls for the Times to stop “cooking the books” when it comes to the nation’s most prestigious bestseller list. ![]() He insists that his new book, Walk the Blue Line: No Right, No Left― Just Cops Telling Their True Stories to James Patterson (written with Matt Eversmann), outsold all but 3 of the other 14 titles on the Times’ hardcover nonfiction bestseller list in the week of March 26, 2023, yet Walk the Blue Line was ranked only at No. The second most striking thing about the letter is Patterson’s beef with the Times.
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