"More than 3,000 copies, did he open it?"

In the QQ group of the House of Reasoning, Li Siwei said his heart, where is this achievement of a newcomer, I am afraid that many old authors who have been famous for a long time will not be able to reach it.

Li Siwei's original "Escape from the Murder Island" did not even sell 1,000 copies on the first day, but it was still a long-term warm-up by Nanhai Publishing Company, and even launched several old gods to help recommend it.

Now Zhang Chu's "Sherlock" continues its super popularity on the Internet, and successfully turns traffic into sales!

Li Jia also sighed again and again, the sales on the first day are not the highest sales, especially for works like theirs that need word-of-mouth fermentation, perhaps the peak sales will be several times that of the first day.

"His book is so well publicized that it has been in the spotlight from the very beginning. Now the company has specially issued a copyright statement for him, leaving foreign foundations speechless. This kind of exposure only sold more than 3,000 copies, which should be regarded as a failure, right?"

"If only my new book had him sell more. ”

"Wait a minute, it seems like it's just a physical book sale, who of you knows how many of his e-books have sold?"

This sentence reminded the writers in the group that Zhang Chu's base camp is on the Internet, and the power that radiates to reality is estimated to be relatively small, and obviously network-based sales are the big head!

Shi Yuanzhong gasped, he can be regarded as an old author who has published several novels, and the number of times he has rushed into this kind of single-day list is only a handful, "This Zhang Chu is really powerful, he can win the champion in reading, and he can sell well in writing, he is a winner in life." ”

"@顾新学, is Editor Gu here? Do you know the e-book sales of Sherlock?"

Peng Hua, who was relatively bold, circled Gu Xinxue and made a contribution to the rest of the group.

Gu Xinxue happened to take a screenshot, and after he saw the group message prompt, he entered the house of reasoning and typed: "As of 19:30, Zhang Chu's "Detective Sherlock" has sold 5,711 copies of the e-book on the whole network, and it has entered the top 20 on Amazon's new book list. ”

These figures can be seen by any employee of Nanhai Publishing, and there is no value in keeping them secret, except that it is better to disseminate them only in the industry.

Zhang Chu's jokes have millions of reads on the Internet, but the conversion into purchasing power is only more than 5,000, Rao is so shocking that the writers of the House of Reasoning are shocked!

"Horror! This newcomer is going to heaven. ”

"Electronic sales are seventy-three shares, Zhang Chu has to make a profit. ”

"Some people are destined to succeed and no one can stop them. ”

"After so many years of writing, it's the first time I've seen a newcomer sell so much. If it weren't for Zhang Chu's data, I'm afraid I'd think it was a great god who issued a book and was selling e-books at a discount!"

"I have read Zhang Chu's "Psychological Crime", the protagonist Fang Mu looks like a person with a very good story, this is an authentic suspense mystery novel, I don't know when he plans to publish it. ”

In terms of genuine paid downloads of e-books, e-books like "Sherlock" are priced at 9.99 yuan, of which 30% belong to the platform and the other 70% belong to the publishing house.

And this part of the money given to the publisher is also paid to the author, the author accounts for 70% of it, and the publisher occupies 30%.

Taken together, generally speaking, the proportion of authors who can get from e-books is as high as 49%, which is almost half!

This is much higher than the royalty of the physical book, just like Zhang Chu's physical book royalty is only 5%.

However, the type and author of each published book is different, and the sales situation in the field of e-books and physical books is also different.

Some books are suitable for online sales, while others are suitable for selling in bookstores or online stores, and there are of course works that can be sold on both channels, but there are very few.

"Sherlock" is strictly more popular on the Internet, but because the price of the e-book is too high, some readers are discouraged.

The e-book market is priced high and low, with so many copies of "The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes" adding up to less than a dollar, while "Sherlock" costs ten dollars for a book, and readers will also settle accounts.

It's so expensive to buy the same humanities, it's better to buy the original book directly, it's obviously more cost-effective!

If the price of Sherlock's e-book were halved or more, it would sell more than 5,000 more!

Another reason is that Zhang Chu's works are not on the shelves on Weibo Reading, and Weibo users are the ones who have the most direct contact with Zhang Chu's advertising jokes.

If a Weibo user has never used Amazon, it is impossible for him to download Amazon or register an account for a novel.

On the contrary, it is very likely that he will spend money on Zhang Chu's works on Weibo, which is the contradiction between readers' usage habits and migration.

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"What, how did you sell more than 3,000 copies. Chu Lan said excitedly, and then she patted Zhang Chu's shoulder, "Son, don't cry, it's actually pretty good." ”

This perfunctory tone is about to break Zhang Chu's heart, can't he take a snack to comfort people?

"It's good!"

Zhang Chu pursed his mouth, "It's obviously good, but I'm not Mingming." ”

Zhang Bowen is in the bookstore industry after all, he pays attention to the entire list, and then points to the works in front of him and says: "Look at these books yourself, only about half of the 90 people in front of you are novels, right? Among the 45 novels, how many are newcomers? How many are mystery works?"

"So, that's a pretty good result?"

"It should be good, don't look at my bookstore that sells so many copies, but in fact, it's mainly for you. After having this book as a foundation, the later works will be more powerful. ”

While speaking, Zhang Chu also received the e-book sales sent by his editor Gu Xinxue, which made him smile from ear to ear.

"More than 5,000 e-books, more than 3,000 physical books, a total of almost 9,000 copies, how much does this cost?"

Zhang Chu's family swept away the clouds, and their heads came together to calculate carefully, how much income "Sherlock" can bring!

"Fortunately, I didn't sign a buyout at that time, otherwise it would have been a big loss!"

As long as a book is slightly famous, it will continue to bring in a steady stream of income in the future.

And if you buy it out, you will get the money in one go, and the subsequent sales will have nothing to do with him anymore.

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At the same time, Li Siwei also secretly wondered, could being a joker on Weibo really help promote the sales of his works?

When did you post some jokes on the Internet and accumulate a group of fans?

He is really a little jealous of Zhang Chu's works and sales, he is also a newcomer, why is there such a big difference?

It's a pity that Li Siwei can't come up with anything new after racking his brains, so he can only pick up people's teeth.

"This damn Zhang Chu, where can I come up with so many funny ideas all day long, it's better to share a little bit with me. ”

He obviously wouldn't know that Zhang Chu was already a human being in two lifetimes, and he was wearing a system.

The life of the open hanger does not need to be explained!