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Originally Posted by Fbone
I'm not saying this is the cause of the drop in book sales but retailers often state when weather conditions are factors in sales reports.
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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.
So no.
Any problems in trad publishing are self-inflicted, not acts of god.