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Summarize Argument: Phenomenon-Hypothesis
The author hypothesizes that the rise of book megastores in the 1990s increased sales of bestsellers while decreasing sales of less well-selling, literary books. This is because the share of sales of bestselling hardcover books nearly doubled between 1986 and 1996, and mega bookstores heavily discounted best-sellers, which discouraged the sale of other hardcover books.
Notable Assumptions
The author assumes that the decline in sales of less commercial, more literary hardcover books equates to a decrease in the total number of these books being sold instead of another cause (like a shift from hardcover to paperback). If this were true, the sales of hardcover noncommercial books could decrease, but the total number of less commercial books could increase or stay the same if more paperback versions were sold.
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