Presidential hopeful Cruz blasts N.Y. Times for keeping book off bestseller list

“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.

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)