Some suggested that people connected to the book had gamed the best-seller list through an organized campaign to bulk buy at stores surveyed by the Times to compile the list.” When my book reached the top of the New York Times bestseller list, a handful of people took to social media attacking both me and my book. As one news report stated, “some in the YA community questioned how a book that many publishers and YA authors had never heard of. Just as Billboard does not count such giveaways in their charts, neither would the New York Times. But the book industry has no such mechanism.Īnd it’s not like I am giving away my books in the same vein as artists like U2 and JAY-Z have done with some albums to broaden their audiences. In the music industry, those sales are registered by SoundScan if they are verified by a venue and therefore count toward an artist’s ranking in the charts. They were just not sold through methods established by the book industry but rather a practice more akin to how artists sell CDs at their concerts. The fact is, the sales of my book are quite real. I tried to defend myself from spurious, false charges that I, a former music manager, part-time actress and first-time novelist, manipulated or “gamed” the New York Times bestseller list to catapult into a number-one spot based on bogus, non-existent sales. On that last headline I must demur I didn’t lash out.
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