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Originally Posted by fjtorres
That is when weather depresses traffic in the winter.
Sales do not normally correlate with the weather precisely because of scale. Sales are the result of the collective decisions of tens of millions of people. Until Yellowstone goes up, US disasters impact thousands and tens of thousands, not millions. Not even Katrina, which was compounded by sheer incompetence, nor Andrew or Camille, the worst huricanes ever, managed to impact even a million.
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Again, it is cumulative. Multiple events in various locations. We are only talking about a few million dollars. That would only need a few thousand people who have been disruptive. Caution and fear spread and retail sales, in general, may be affected.
Again #2, I am not saying this is the reason for decreases in book sales. But to blame it mainly on ebook agency contracts?
No.