Chapter 108: Reprinting
Fang Hao's "Days and Nights in Pengcheng" was published at his own expense, and a large part of the money was in the cost of plate making and the book number, and the printing cost was not very high.
Now I want to reprint, it is still the original content, without any modifications, and there is no need for another plate making, nor does it need a book number, which saves a lot of money.
If the cost is lower and the selling price remains the same, it equals more profit.
However, whether to print 5,000 or 10,000 copies is still a big question.
The more copies you print at one time, the smaller the cost and the greater the profit margin.
However, Fang Hao is also self-aware, he has so many fans, and a considerable number of them are white prostitutes, and it is impossible for every fan to buy his books.
There is a ceiling on the book's sales.
It's just that he can't figure out what level the ceiling is.
This is the first time he has sold the peripherals of his face, and he is not so clear about how big his market is.
In case the addition is printed too much and cannot be sold, then it will be smashed.
If another 5,000 copies are printed, judging from the current data, no matter how much you lose, you will still make money.
If 10,000 copies are printed, and thousands of copies cannot be sold, then there is no profit.
And it's not a problem that so many books are piled up at home.
After discussing with Ye Wenwen for a while, I felt that it was better not to make a rash decision for the time being, and wait for the data in the next two days, if the data is good, it will be 10,000 copies.
The next day, the data was not so fierce, and the number of people who placed orders was about the same, but the number of pre-sold copies was more than 1,000 copies, and the number of people who bought more copies was not much, and the number of more copies bought was not much.
The most ferocious brain-dead fans will swipe all kinds of news about idols every once in a while, so for traffic, the data on the first day will be the most crazy.
On the third day, the pre-sale was still more than 1,000 copies, and the sales volume did not increase, but the number of people placing orders increased.
This is the performance of normal passers-by.
During the class, Fang Hao and Liu Qing mentioned that their books had begun to be pre-sold, and they also mentioned the current pre-sale data.
Knowing that the pre-sale had reached seven or eight thousand copies in three days, Liu Qing was dumbfounded:
"Brother Hao, your data is too good, right?
"That is, the sales on the first day looked like that," Fang Hao said, "That's the way it was later, and there was no stamina." ”
Lack of stamina is a common problem of all traffic, and after the ferocious brain-dead powder pounced on the past and brought a wave of traffic, it stopped.
Fang Hao expressed to Liu Qing the problem of his insufficient number of people now, and Liu Qing immediately said that he had enough time to help him solve this problem.
Liu Qing didn't mention the payment, he felt that he didn't need to mention this, he just helped write the package list for a few days, and it was worth it to consolidate his relationship with Fang Hao.
However, Fang Hao didn't think about asking him to help in vain, and told him that he would be rewarded with a dollar for every package he handled.
Ye Wenwen has already contacted the recipient of a certain pass, and can mail those books at a relatively favorable price, and the postage is at least half cheaper than under normal circumstances.
This is a preferential treatment only available to big customers.
Thousands of orders of express business, of course, can be regarded as a big customer.
Now the competition between those courier companies is fierce, and such a big business, of course, you can bargain with them.
The money saved, that's their income.
After another three days, the number of books scheduled had exceeded 10,000, reaching 10,000 and a few hundred.
At this time, Fang Hao made a decision to print another 10,000 copies on the basis of the original 5,000 copies.
There are a total of 15,000 copies, and 10,000 and hundreds of copies have been pre-sold, so there will be no loss of money.
However, no matter how much it is, it is unlikely that the numbers will only get lower and lower.
The cost of printing 10,000 copies is not as high as the cost of the first 5,000 copies, and it is completely worth it.
After pre-selling more than 5,000 copies, he has already posted a message on Weibo, announcing that the first print has been sold out and that another 10,000 copies will be printed.
After the pre-sale exceeded 10,000 copies, he posted a message on Weibo, announcing that there was only a part of the reprint left, and he would not reprint it in a short time, so he wanted to buy it as soon as possible.
The word "short-term" is still very spiritual.
How short this short time is, it depends on the sales situation.
If the sales situation is not good, that short period of time may be a year, or it may be two or three years, or even a lifetime.
If the sales situation is good, that short period of time may be half a month or a month.
After the first batch of 5,000 books was printed, Fang Hao called a truck to pull the books over.
Liu Qing was also called over by him to help.
Ye Wenwen has to go to work and needs to have time to help after work.
After moving all those books, Liu Qing began to fill in the courier form according to the form Ye Wenwen made and pack the books.
Fang Hao is in charge of signing.
Ten days ago, he paid someone to design a signature for him, and after practicing for more than ten days, it was like that.
Every book must be signed.
Signing may seem like an easy thing to do, but no matter how easy it is, it needs to be repeated thousands of times, and it is not an easy task.
Liu Qing's work is even more arduous.
Filling out the courier slip is not an easy task, the recipient's address, the sender's address, and the mobile phone number.
This is a much more onerous task than signing.
Fortunately, there are so many people who place orders for more than one book, and even local tyrants who order dozens or hundreds of copies, which makes his task not so heavy.
He is a list that is processed in chronological order, and many of the orders on the first day belong to the kind of brain-dead fans, and there are more phenomena of over-purchase.
But in any case, the task will not be simple.
At noon, Ye Wenwen came back and was startled to see the house full of books.
She also saw Liu Qing who was busy.
"Sister-in-law, you're back. My name is Liu Qing, I am a friend of Brother Hao, and I came to help. ”
Liu Qing knew that Fang Hao had a girlfriend, and when she saw such a beautiful girl open the door and come in, she knew that it was his girlfriend without Fang Hao's introduction, so she hurriedly said hello.
"Eh, hello, I heard Fang Hao say that you are his best friend. Ye Wenwen said with a smile.
It actually feels a little weird.
Because Liu Qing looks a little old, thirty or forty years old.
So a person called Brother Fang Haohao and called his sister-in-law felt very disobedient.
Of course, she knew that Liu Qingji was younger than Fang Hao, but she really couldn't see it like this.
She had heard that the online writer was an aging group earlier, and she didn't believe it so much before, but when she saw Liu Qing, she finally believed it.
Suddenly an idea came to mind:
"If I have a son in the future and he wants to be an online writer, then I have to kill him. ”