Chapter 218: Scarcity is Precious (Three More Requests for Subscription)
After eight o'clock in the morning, the roller shutter door of the Hanlinxuan bookstore was pulled up with a clang.
Zhou Bowen walked out of the gate, Jiangcheng had rare good weather today, he was just about to sweep the dust in front of the door with a broom, but the neighbor next door came over with a smile on his face.
"Lao Zhou, I heard that your son's new book is selling very well, some newspapers say that he is worth tens of millions, this smart kid makes money quickly!"
Stretching out his hand not to hit the smiling person, Zhou Bowen said modestly: "How can there be so many, those media always like to exaggerate things." ”
"That's also a multimillionaire, Lao Zhou, you are lying down and enjoying happiness now, just a big fat grandson. ”
"It's still early, children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren. The smile on Zhou Bowen's face never stopped, now where do the people around him not know about Hanlinxuan Bookstore and Zhang Chu!
After cleaning, he took out the newspapers in the mailbox, and all the newspapers in them were placed on the display shelves, and some consumers like to read books and newspapers in bookstores.
What Zhou Bowen must do every morning is to look for news related to his son in the newspaper, and today is no exception.
[Zhang Chu's new work "Youth Pi" is on pre-sale, and 50,000 books are sold out in 11 minutes!]
As a writer who has gone out of Jiangcheng, "Jiangcheng Daily" has to report almost any movement, let alone the thing worth bragging about in front of him.
"This stinky boy is so popular?" Zhou Bowen thought that these books would not be sold out, and he was ready to help buy books last night, but he found that he had done more.
What is the concept of selling 50,000 books in 11 minutes?
As the owner of the bookstore, Zhou Bowen no longer knows what to say, and his son has defeated two well-known writers.
It seems that the ancestral tomb of the old Zhou family is indeed smoking, and I have to go home and burn a few incense sticks during the Spring Festival this year!
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Not to mention Zhang Bowen, even the rest of the literary circle were frightened by the explosiveness of Zhang Chu's fans.
He has already published several books, and it doesn't seem right to say that he is a newcomer, but it is even more inappropriate to say that he is a veteran writer.
The "Kunlun Ruins" series with such a deep background actually lost in the pre-sale!
This is the one that makes the author Yunfan earn a lot of money, and he can earn tens of millions of dollars by publishing one or two books every year, so you can imagine how much teenagers like his works.
"It's terrible, is there anyone behind Zhang Chu who is helping, if not, it will be too terrifying. ”
"This shouldn't be fake, it's useless. ”
"There are many rich people among his fans, and many people buy dozens or hundreds of copies. ”
Also, "Life of Pi" has a wide audience, and many readers have a certain amount of financial strength and are willing to spend money. ”
"Tsk, I don't even dare to open a pre-sale for my new book, but he actually sells it so quickly. ”
"I thought it was something wrong with the news coverage, and it turned out to be exactly what it was. ”
"There's going to be a lot going on in the book sales market next week! Which book do you think will win?"
"Zhang Chu still needs to work harder, he doesn't even have a single work that breaks one million now, what can he compare with the rest. ”
The current pre-sale is just for die-hard fans, but it is impossible for die-hard fans to support hundreds of thousands or millions of sales.
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Zhou Kang refreshed until the inventory of pre-sale works became 0 before going to sleep, and the books in his sleep were flying with wings made of RMB.
Now most of the performance of Menglong Culture Media Company is supported by Zhang Chu alone, and his voice in it is getting heavier and heavier, and it is said that he is expected to be promoted to partner this time!
Of course, the reason for this is clearly understood, why Zhang Chu gave up those large companies with strength and connections, and chose a small company like Menglong Culture is only because of the relationship between Zhou Kang and Zhang Chu's father.
A mere signed version has caused such a big topic on the Internet, which can make local tyrants spend a lot of money to buy works, and at the same time, many people are strangled by it.
They actually missed the pre-sale of Life of Pi!
Not everyone is always paying attention to the news of Weibo or Dangdang.com, and many people don't even know about the pre-sale of this book.
Where will there be media coverage before the pre-sale results come out?
Now that the pre-sale is over, it is in the news because it is too fast, which is just an afterthought!
It's all sold out, is this report useful?
Many people only knew that there was such a thing as pre-sale after seeing that piece of news, and when they logged on to Dangdang.com, they found that the daylily was already cold.
So one by one, they vented their dissatisfaction on the Internet:
"What's going on, I don't know when the pre-sale will open!"
"I strongly demand another pre-sale, not extravagant to ask for a signed version, just an ordinary physical version. ”
"After watching the news, I realized that I had missed the pre-sale of "Life of Pi" perfectly. ”
"50,000 books is too little, why do you have to sell 100,200,000 copies, are you underestimating the number of our readers?"
"Kneel and beg for a signed book, 2,000 yuan to buy at a high price, you can go and trade in person!"
"I was given this book by a friend, and I liked it very much, but unfortunately it didn't have a substance. ”
"My boyfriend has a birthday in November, and I want to give him this as a gift, and I kneel down and beg to be listed!"
Zhou Kang couldn't calm down at all at this time, his status was almost laid on the basis of Zhang Chu's long-term popularity, and now the voice of the masses is so high, shouldn't he conform to public opinion?
So he simply ran to Yan Da, ready to talk to Zhang Chu directly about the additional pre-sale.
At this time, Zhang Chu was writing "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", and he had just deleted the 3,000 words he had written, and this part of the content didn't feel quite right, and he didn't render the terrifying atmosphere well.
Even if something inappropriate is written, it is useless, Zhang Chu did not regret it!
When the doorbell rang, he walked to the door very curiously, and saw through the cat's eye that it was Zhou Kang standing outside the door.
"Uncle Zhou, why did you find the door? Come in and sit down. ”
Zhang Chu gestured to his sofa, and then hurriedly sorted out the books he borrowed and put them aside, so as not to have no place to sit at all.
Zhou Kang looked at the decoration in the room a little, it was the first time he entered the house rented by Zhang Chu, and he used to go downstairs at most.
"I'm going to call you, but your phone is off, so I'm going to come and have a look. Your house is pretty well tied, it's very tidy. ”
"I invite a cleaning aunt to do the cleaning every week, and I usually try not to get dirty. Zhang Chu said very honestly, "What is Uncle Zhou looking for me for?"
Zhou Kang's eyes flickered a little, "The pre-sale results of your "Youth Pi" are quite amazing, and it was sold out in 11 minutes." Now many netizens have said that they missed the pre-sale time and want us to open another pre-sale of autographed books, and there are also many fans who have plenty of money urging us, and it is estimated that they want to buy a lot. ”
However, after Zhang Chu thought about it seriously, he shook his head, "I think it's better to forget it, scarcity is expensive, if you repeatedly open pre-sales, it is better to directly issue it publicly." It's not worth much if you get too many signed editions, so it's better to circulate them in small quantities. ”