Sales
The book received some good reviews and initially sold well until September 11, 2001 when sales slowed to a near halt. The cover with a cartoon of flying businesspeople, one of them on fire and hurtling earthward also hurt sales. The positive reviews of the Jason Reitman film revived sales.
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