In the face of the surging readers' requests, Zhang Bowen was very satisfied.

This time, among the offline pre-sale points of Nanhai Publishing Company, the reason why Hanlinxuan was able to squeeze in and rank with those chain Internet celebrity bookstores was all because of the name Zhang Chu!

"Now Zhang Chu is very busy with his studies, and it is impossible to fly back to hold a signing meeting. In this way, I will ask him to come back ten sets of signed books from Yanjing Express at that time, and take them out in the store by random lottery at that time. How about you all have a chance with your shopping receipts?"

As soon as the words fell, the surrounding customers immediately let out a cheer, and the originally quiet bookstore suddenly became extremely noisy!

"Good!"

"That's it!"

"Then if I buy two sets, do you want to divide two orders for me?"

"What is the number of the lottery? What if someone else takes me?"

"Well done, hahaha, hopefully get the autograph. ”

Zhang Bowen hurriedly quieted down these customers, and he said with a smile: "Don't be impatient, everyone, this lottery is a temporary decision made by me, so there may be omissions in various conditions." But rest assured, the promised 10 sets of signed complete works will definitely be delivered. As long as the consumers who have made a reservation at the Hanlin Xuan Bookstore in the last three days are expected to win, they will also be given some character posters. The lottery will be held on the day these pre-sale books arrive!"

He also had an idea, and directly regarded Zhang Chu as a lucky cat.

When the people at the back of the line heard the commotion in front of them, they all stood on tiptoe and looked ahead.

"What did you say over there just now, why are you suddenly so excited?" Chen Xiaotian, who was at the back of the line, asked curiously about a young man who had just walked out.

The people around them also listened with their ears turned their ears to see what was going on.

The man was putting the small ticket in his wallet, and after hearing the inquiry, he replied: "Just now at our request, the bookstore owner agreed to ask Zhang Chu for ten sets of signed versions of "Sou Shen Ji" to use for the lottery, and those who have gone to make reservations in the past few days have a chance. ”

Chen Xiaotian was taken aback, he glared at him and said: "It's impossible, isn't it? How could this bookstore owner get his hands on a signed book, but don't it be a forgery! Didn't Zhang Chu say that it would be difficult to hold a book signing? This was interviewed by a reporter last time. There is really no bottom line for the current unscrupulous merchants to publicize!"

"Eh, buddy, I'm afraid you don't know Han Linxuan, right?" Song Xiong couldn't help but laugh when he heard this.

The rest of the people in the long line also covered their mouths and laughed, which made Chen Xiaotian very surprised, "Isn't it just an ordinary bookstore?

"This bookstore is opened by Zhang Chu's father! Do you think Zhang Chu's father can get ten sets of signed books?"

This TM is very embarrassing, Chen Xiaotian smiled: "So that's the case, no wonder! Then I should line up to buy it, I hope good luck can come." ”

He just came here from other places for an internship, and he didn't think about Zhang Chu's family at all, he just liked these works.

Song Xiong's words solved the doubts of the customers, and also made the attraction of Hanlin Xuan bigger and bigger!

No, Chen Xiaotian immediately announced the good news in the post bar of Soshenji, which attracted envy and jealousy from netizens.

There were even people who privately messaged him, could they help buy a set of "Sou Shen Ji" at Hanlinxuan Bookstore, on the one hand, to support Zhang Chu's bookstore, and on the other hand, to get signed books.

Zhang Chu had only held a signing party of "Sherlock" before he was completely famous, and there were not many people who got autographs at that time.

Now this kind of event is not held at all, and there are more and more readers, but there are so few signed books that the prices remain high on the second-hand transfer market such as Xianyu, and there are many counterfeit ones!

Fortunately, Zhang Chu's calligraphy is good and very distinctive, don't make it more difficult to imitate, you can find it by comparing it a little.

Having written several best-selling books in a row, his readership has grown.

The number of retweets of the Weibo blog of the Nanhai Publishing Company has exceeded 120,000 people, and it is still increasing.

When the news spread that books could be booked in Hanlinxuan to participate in the lottery, almost all local readers in Jiangcheng flocked to it, and they almost had to be busy and paralyzed.

Everyone seems to think that the probability of choosing 10 out of 120,000 people is too small, so they come to Hanlin Xuan to try their luck, and they all feel that the competition here is a little smaller.

Of course, more people are preparing with both hands, not only in physical bookstores, but also online.

For Zhang Chu's fans, they can't wait for Hanlinxuan Bookstore to open all over the country, so they don't have to envy Jiangcheng!

……

"How much do you say?"

Zhang Chu, who was basking in the sun downstairs in the community with matcha, directly took off his sunglasses, and he couldn't believe the number his father had called just now!

Zhang Bowen proudly showed off on the other end of the phone: "21,000 copies, absolutely yes, we have carefully calculated." In the past three days, we were almost not busy, and several people were invited to help. ”

"The figures given to me by Nanhai Publishing Company said that in three days, the total number of pre-sales on the Internet was 180,000 copies, and the pre-sale of 240,000 copies in physical bookstores. As a result, our Hanlin Xuan occupies 20,000 copies of them, which is really a bit incredible!"

Due to the price of "Sou Shen Ji", it suffered a lot in pre-sale, and only real readers and fans would choose to buy it.

Passers-by and readers are discouraged at this price, and they can still collect it if they buy it one by one, and it is really reluctant to spend so much money in one go.

What's more, many netizens have already read the previous content, and they have already followed the reading progress of the origin Chinese network to the content of the second and third volumes!

I've already spent money once, and then I spend money to buy the content I've watched, and I feel a bit of a loss.

At the same time, there are also many online readers who don't like to read physical books at all, anyway, you can read them online, and when the time comes, it's a big deal to buy an electronic version, and all six volumes are also very cost-effective.

Zhang Bowen was a little surprised to hear this number, he thought that the pre-sales of bookstores all over the country were so good, but he didn't expect it to be like this only in his own Hanlin Xuan!

"This pre-sale performance is very good, and there are so many sales before it officially starts selling. You should be able to climb to the top of the leaderboard by then, right?"

Zhang Chu replied: "It should be no problem, now it depends on whether it can break 500,000 copies at the end of the pre-sale, I feel that it is now close to saturation." ”

"If the ranking list divides this complete collection into six volumes to calculate, the sales volume can be directly multiplied by six, and the pre-sale will exceed three million copies, and a big satellite will come out, and the entire Chinese literary world and even the world literary world will have to tremble!"

Just thinking about it was shocking enough, and almost no book market could do anything like that.

But Zhang Chu is barely able to do it now, at least the amount of sales is about the same as the three million copies, the difference is that the average reader only buys one, but he has to buy at least six copies!

"If we keep it like this in the future, we may have a chance to break that pre-sale record, but it's too early. ”

Zhang Bowen was very sorry, and he immediately asked: "Why is the number of pre-sales on the Internet this time not as large as the number of pre-sales in physical bookstores? ”

180,000 VS 240,000, the gap is indeed not small!

"Mainly because most of the readers on the Internet have read the content through the origin Chinese website, and many of the rest of the people who watch the excitement are unlikely to convert into sales." They still tend to read online, and only some of them buy physical books to read. ”

Zhang Chu added: "In addition, many of the pre-sales of the 240,000 physical bookstores are booked in eastern and southern provinces and cities, mainly in first- and second-tier cities. East China has the most sales, probably because of the influence of East China Life News!"

Thanks to the efforts of all parties, the daily sales of this newspaper have stabilized at about 1.1 million copies.

Serialized in a newspaper with a large circulation, there are more physical readers of "Sou Shen Ji", and at the same time, there is correspondingly more spare money in hand!

Even if its influence is only in East China, it happens to be a relatively economically developed region, and newspaper subscribers generally like to read print works.

Compared with the users of the origin Chinese website, the users of East China Life Newspaper prefer physical books, so it is not unusual to sell more of these.

"When the time comes, you can take ten more sets of books from the publishing house, sign them, and send them back with SF Express. In the form of cash on delivery, I will pay and try to get to the store early. ”

"It's just a courier fee, it's not too expensive, and now Nanhai Publishing Company has not yet begun to enter the printing process, and it is estimated that there will be at least half a month to go!"

Book publishing is not like an online update, where you can write a chapter and upload it to a website, forum, or poster, but it requires a series of formalities.

Zhang Bowen didn't argue with Zhang Chu, Han Linxuan's books booked out this time made a lot of money, more than before!

Although bookstores are doing relatively well, it is extremely difficult to sell thousands of books a day, unless it is a group business.

"Nearly two million words of a book, you wrote it so quickly. You still have to have a little bit of your own life, and although this degree is not very useful to you, it is definitely good to study more. ”

Zhang Bowen rarely taught his son a lesson, and after he received Zhou Kang's ventilation report, he has been thinking about how to communicate with his son.

Zhang Chu didn't refute directly, but said: "I'm not as overhanging as you think, don't worry." I'm going to take a break lately. ”

"It's more important to study with peace of mind than anything else, that's Yan University, don't finish your studies because your grades are too poor, it will be a big scandal at that time!"