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You made up the "lot buyer" meme out of whole cloth, and have nothing to back it up.

As mostly an exercise, I ran this out far beyond my actual interest in the discussion. To recap:

Your first attempt at proving the "lot buyer" idea pointed to a sales campaign on a small website that's not even due to start until April.

Your second attempt tried to discount the "Dark Soros" theory you had introduced yourself, and declared that word-of-mouth and advertising was responsible, as though none of this is being done for almost every book on the list.

Then you found another source for your original "lot buyer" idea, failing to note that the organization involved is itself a major purchasing source of Rand's books and would not be buying them from Amazon anyway.

BTW, "Atlas Shrugged" is at #17 on Amazon today.

It's not because of some secret trick. It's because people are buying the book. In fact, they have been steadily buying it for fifty years. I doubt it's because of Rand's writing style.

Ideas matter.

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