"Alas, it's a mistake! We should communicate with Hanlin Culture Media and put the sales time during the National Day! Not everyone will travel during the holiday, so such a long break time is just right for watching a whole film. ”

Gu Xinxue patted his thigh in annoyance, every year during the National Day, Hainan is completely occupied by tourists, and the places where he usually goes out for walks and eats are overcrowded, so he can only stay at home to accompany his children and daughter-in-law.

He is not a person who likes to join in the fun, and would rather make a pot of tea on the balcony of his home and read slowly.

Don't look at the traffic jam across the country, but there are a small number of people who go out to travel, and most of them are the same as in the past after work and school, and will not deliberately go to other places.

October 8th is the time to work, those who go out to play are too tired to come back, everyone also suffers from post-holiday work syndrome, almost all of them are entangled in a bunch of things, where do you still have time to go to the bookstore to buy books to see!

Long before the start of the National Day, the pre-sales of "Silent Lambs" in Chinese Simplified exceeded that of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", and as of today there have been 1.58 million copies, and there is no hope of hitting 2 million.

The relevant practitioners in the book industry are almost silent, Zhang Chu is the only one who has pre-sold more than one million books, and now the heavy responsibility of hitting two million still only falls on his shoulders, and the rest of them have no play at all!

In the short term, if Zhang Chu can write another work that can be of interest to the general public, that is the key.

The publicity of "The Silence of the Lambs" is very high-profile, but the theme and background are not accepted by the rest. "Ghost Blows the Lamp" is now serialized on the Internet in advance every volume, and readers have basically read everything they should have read.

It's just that the gap between the number of online subscriptions and the sales of physical books is obvious, and physical books sell 100,000 or hundreds of thousands of copies at every turn.

From the very beginning, Gu Xinxue never controlled what Zhang Chu was writing about Xinshu, mainly because he couldn't control it at all.

That guy's head probably contains an entire universe, and all kinds of wonderful works have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and I seriously suspect that even Zhang Chu himself can't control it.

"This kid is really a genius, and he has to write two books at the same time and go to school at the same time, and the genius's brain is incomparable to ordinary people!"

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Last time, Zhang Chu and his friends were on a road trip to the North Island of New Zealand, but this time he and his parents enjoyed the magnificent natural scenery on the South Island.

Since Zhang Chu jumped off the plane with the coach in front of her parents, Chu Lan has never taken a plane again, and that scene scared her enough.

So the group drove around for a few days, and instead of returning to Auckland, they took a plane from the capital Wellington.

traveled for six days, and another 20 hours were on the plane in the sky, anyway, Zhang Chu was tired enough.

On the contrary, matcha, which has always been very naughty, can't see the fatigue at all, probably because it knows how to rest.

The huge courtyard was extremely quiet at the moment, Zhang Chu sat on the rocking chair in the courtyard and basked in the sunset, not wanting to think about having to get up early to go to school tomorrow.

It's a pity that this rare silence was ruthlessly broken by Zhong Liangping, and the store manager dragged a small cart in, and two large cardboard boxes filled with heavy things on it.

"Boss, you're back! If you don't come back, we're going to lose that tradition. ”

Zhang Chu didn't need to open it to know what was in the box.

A copy of "The Silence of the Lambs" is neatly laid out inside, and the impactful cover will probably make passers-by stop and stop.

Every time his new book is about to be released, he will put some signed books in the Hanlin Xuan bookstore to attract consumers, and this time is no exception.

Zhong Liangping waited for him for a long time, and thought that he was going to squat at the door of the classroom after the 8th.

"I think this tradition can be lost. You see that the Hanlinxuan bookstore in Jiangcheng didn't let me sign it before sending it over, and your bookstore is now able to make a simple profit, so you shouldn't rely on me anymore!"

Zhang Chu just wanted to be lazy in his heart, and the available excuses were still very high-sounding.

When the eagle grows up, it has to learn to flap its wings and fly on its own.

"Mr. Zhang has entrusted me to send 500 signed books, how about you come to the bookstore tomorrow afternoon and send him SF Logistics to sign them?"

This was completely forgotten by Zhang Bowen himself, probably too happy in New Zealand.

Since this is the case, Zhang Chu has no choice, he shrugged his head and said, "Okay, okay, I'll sign it now." ”

Zhong Liangping carried the box to the study with him, one was responsible for turning the book, and the other was responsible for signing the book, and the cooperation was quite tacit.

Now there are only 200 books in two boxes, almost 400 words by hand, Zhang Chu said that there is no problem at all!

After about half an hour, he completed the task, and the whole person was relieved.

"Will it still open at 8 a.m. tomorrow?"

Zhong Liangping closed the open book and replied, "No, no, no, tomorrow morning it will be an hour earlier, and it will start at seven o'clock." Many of the tourists who were leaving the dormitory building to go to the cafeteria or the school building passed by us, and many of them wanted to buy your books as soon as possible. ”

"Seven o'clock is still a little early, you remember to have breakfast. ”

Zhang Chu was reluctant to go to the bookstore to buy books so early anyway, and the store hadn't opened at seven o'clock in his last life.

"It's not early! But Jingdong promised to put the pre-sold books at the campus pick-up point at seven o'clock in the morning, and it is estimated that they will have to queue up to pick up the goods. "This is not the first time, several bookstores have already announced that they will extend their business hours until the early hours of the morning, so that everyone can buy your new works." ”

"Isn't it? It's an awkward time!"

If tomorrow is Friday, this kind of behavior of extending business hours is understandable, after all, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow are holidays.

But tomorrow is the first working day!

The next day is going to work, who will go to the bookstore outside to stay up late the first night?

Even if you stay up late, you can lie in the quilt and play with your mobile phone.

At this moment, Zhang Chu began to worry about those bookstores, but don't sell miserably, there are no consumers to buy books at all.

Zhong Liangping doesn't think so: "As long as you like your book enough, time is never a big problem." I've seen on the forum today that many city book lovers are spontaneously organizing to squat. If it weren't for the curfew at night on the Yan University campus, I would have wanted to open the store!"

"Come on, there's the treasure of the town store, don't worry about being so late. ”