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Originally Posted by Fbone
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?
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Since the trough of the Great Recession, leading economic indicators for the country as a whole have been steadily upward.
http://www.advisorperspectives.com/d...omic-Index.php
In order for environmental disruptions to be shown to have a specific impact on book sales, some data will have to be conjured to support the notion that books are a luxury item that people will forgo purchasing under those stressful conditions. I don't think you will find it. If you do, please link it.
In these recent reports, publishers are shown to have reduced sales on all book formats. However, the percentage decline in e-book sales are much higher than their paper counterparts. Consumers are price sensitive and that's especially true when there is an abrupt upward change in price for the same product. They will either wait to purchase or they may shift their purchase choice to a competing product. (I know that publishers are loathe to call their books products but they are.) In my opinion, price sensitivity is the most likely explanation for the data.