Well, I'm sure you're right. Archive publishing and sales is no doubt incredibly complex and beyond my grasp. I'm foolish to even generally speculate about them based only on part of the sales picture, inside info from retailers I know, comments I've collected from DC staffers, internet polls of 600+ customers, 12 years of interacting with Greenberger, Brevoort and others on-line. Without COMPLETE information and context, everything I "know" is most likely wrong, insufficient to provide even general indications. Patterns that haven't deviated in 10 years? Meaningless.


So what turned out to be the answer in this case? Information from someone familiar with the situation, information far ouside of the data available through the sales estimates you cited (which was the only information you cited). Please don't take this personally (I really don't see any need to drag this out) but that was exactly the point I was making.

As to whatever other data you may have pursued and acquired on your own -- well, all the better (and I never claimed it was "meaningless"). But I think most people who look at those lists of numbers have not done this, and probably do not look at them in that context, which is why I often caution people against reading too much into the data. I think this serves as a good example.

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