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 In a statement on his campaign website, the Texas senator said the
New York Times should apologize or release evidence of its analysis.
He said he was being kept off the bestseller list because the
newspaper is politically biased against him.
HarperCollins Publishers said in a statement that it investigated
sales of the book and "found no evidence of bulk orders or sales
through any retailer or organization."
New York Times spokeswoman Danielle Rhoades Ha said the company
stands by its statement on Thursday that Cruz's book did not meet
the standards for its bestseller list, "which includes an analysis
of book sales that goes beyond simply the number of books sold."
"In the case of this book, the overwhelming preponderance of
evidence was that sales were limited to strategic bulk purchases,"
the statement said.
The book does not appear at all in the Times' top-20 non-fiction
books.
Cruz's campaign denied there were any strategic bulk purchases and
said booksellers at events on his campaign tour had long lines for
people buying "A Time for Truth: Reigniting the Promise of America"
and getting it autographed by the candidate.
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HarperCollins said the book ranked high on other bestseller lists
that omit bulk orders from their rankings, noting it was No. 4 on
Nielsen BookScan's hardover nonfiction list, which is published on
the Wall Street Journal and Publishers Weekly websites.
Barnes and Noble's website showed the book at No. 10 on its list of
current affairs and politics bestsellers on Friday evening, but it
was not in its overall top 100.
(Reporting by Fiona Ortiz in Chicago; Editing by Eric Beech and Ken
Wills)
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