{"id":1471127,"date":"2024-06-14T01:20:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T05:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/remarkably-lopsided-nyt-bestseller-bias-laid-bare\/1471127\/"},"modified":"2024-06-14T01:20:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T05:20:00","slug":"remarkably-lopsided-nyt-bestseller-bias-laid-bare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/remarkably-lopsided-nyt-bestseller-bias-laid-bare\/1471127\/","title":{"rendered":"“Remarkably Lopsided”: NYT Bestseller Bias Laid Bare"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Remarkably Lopsided”: NYT Bestseller Bias Laid Bare<\/span><\/p>\n

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After a March tweet by Elon Musk decrying the New York Times<\/em> bestseller list as “pure propaganda<\/a>” after the outlet was forced to admit in court that it’s not a ranked list, The Economist<\/a> <\/em>decided to see if there was any merit to longstanding claims of bias against conservative authors.<\/p>\n

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They found, of course, that there is<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Economist compiled Bookscan data over a 12-year period and built a statistical model to predict the likelihood of books appearing in the NYT’s weekly “hardcover non-fiction” and “advice, how-to, and miscellaneous” rankings. The model considered books from publishers that identify as politically right of center.<\/p>\n

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The analysis estimated that books by conservative publishers were 7% points less likely to make it onto the NYT weekly bestseller lists <\/strong>compared to books by other publishers with similar sales figures.<\/p>\n

What’s more, the bias was more pronounced among titles that sold fewer than 5,000 copies per week. These books from conservative imprints had a significantly lower chance of making the NYT list<\/strong> compared to similarly selling books from other publishers. Conservative books that did <\/em>make the NYT bestsellers were ranked on average 2.3 notches lower than those from other presses, despite having similar sales numbers<\/strong>. The effect was even more significant for books at the bottom of the Publishers Weekly bestseller list, which placed an average of five spots lower on the NYT list.<\/p>\n

My first book should\u2019ve been 4 on best seller list, they put it at 11. Second book should\u2019ve been number one, they didn\u2019t put it on at all. If they blatantly lie about a best seller list which can be simply tracked by sales, what do you think they lie about? \ud83e\uddd0\ud83e\uddd0\ud83e\uddd0<\/p>\n

\u2014 Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) March 10, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

The report also notes a specific case involving Alex Jones. Despite Jones’ ranking as the second-place bestselling author in America in 2022<\/strong> according to Bookscan, his book was never included in the NYT bestseller list<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Yeah, it\u2019s fake<\/p>\n

\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 12, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nThu, 06\/13\/2024 – 21:20<\/span><\/p>\n

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