Every year, after the Booker Prize is awarded, it is not only an honor for the winners, but also a great help for sales incentives and work discussions.

Don't look at the sales of "Life of Pi" all over the world, but there is still a lot of room for improvement, after all, the two supermarkets in China and India have contributed nearly 4.5 million copies!

The author is Chinese, and the story told and the protagonist of the story is Indian, which happens to connect the two most populous countries in the world.

Even if both are developing countries, the advantage of a large population is that the potential for book sales is huge, and I am afraid that these millions of copies will not even make a splash.

With a population of nearly 2.5 billion, only 4.5 million copies were sold, which is not a number that publishers are happy with!

Selling 4.5 million in any single market is about the same, and the two such markets together are still a little less, especially when the film adaptation is in full swing and wins awards.

Nanhai Publishing Company was already smiling from ear to ear, and almost every book that Zhang Chu signed a publishing agreement with them was selling repeatedly, even if it lost "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", it didn't seem to be a big deal.

First of all, his debut novel "Sherlock" sold hundreds of thousands of copies when it was not favored, and then it was directly adapted into a popular British drama, which was out of control.

Life of Pi has been regarded as a bestseller since its inception, and it has lived up to expectations, reaching the top 10 of the sales charts many times, and now winning the first Booker Award in Asia.

Even "Psychological Crime", which has been ignored the most, won the top of the sales list for the first time because of the hit of the movie of the same name.

When these were just taken out, almost all the editors, including Gu Xinxue, felt that the sales would be average, and if there were 100,000 copies, it would be a good result among the newcomers, and if there were 500,000 copies, it would be considered a big outbreak of newcomers.

But Zhang Chu was a god in one fell swoop, so many works have repeatedly sold well in a short period of time, and the sales of each work in China have exceeded one million, and the lowest-selling "Fifteen Years of Wanli" has sold a total of 1.2 million copies.

The sales of the complete works of "Sou Shen Ji", which has just been released for a month, have also reached 1.25 million copies, but it contains six volumes, which is equivalent to selling about 8 million copies!

In addition, the six volumes of "Sou Shen Ji" were sold separately, and the first, third and sixth parts sold more than 500,000 copies.

"Haven't the art team taken out the design draft yet?" Gu Xinxue was very anxious now, "Isn't it just for them to add such a line of words to the cover of the book, as for so difficult?"

Now that "Life of Pi" has won the award, what they have to do is definitely adjust the cover of the physical book, which is an honor worthy of being placed on the cover!

All kinds of awesome gimmicks, honors or recommendations on physical books are all important factors to attract readers to spend money.

Because in fact, many people don't know what the content is before buying a book, but since so many people say that it is good, since it can get an authoritative award, it proves that it should be a very good book.

The heat will not last long, and now Nanhai Publishing Company is concentrating its platform strength and is ready to spend another 1 million yuan on publicity to "Youth Pi", because such investment will be rewarded!

When "Life of Pi" was reprinted, the cover of this would appear, and the number of additional prints this time came directly to 500,000 copies, and there was no worry about not being able to sell at all.

More than ten minutes later, Gu Xinxue finally got this cover, he enlarged it on the computer and carefully admired it, the boat and the Pacific Ocean hand-drawn by Zhang Chu himself, plus this dazzling number and honor, he directly replaced the computer desktop with this picture!

There are so many literary editors in China, but how many can be like themselves, and a Booker Prize winner is born from among the writers they are responsible for?

In the past two days, he has received a steady stream of envy in the company and among his peers, all because of this work.

Even if no one of the writers he signed has ever won the Mao Dun Literature Award or the Lu Xun Literature Award, it will be judged once a year in China, and there are so many winners, who remembers it.

But the Booker Prize is different, even those who don't care about foreign literary awards have to admit its importance, and Zhang Chu is the only seedling in China and even in the whole of Asia!

He is the only one who won the Booker Prize in Asia, and of course he will be remembered by history.

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Fang Yi was very happy to hear that "Life of Pi" won the Booker Prize, although he didn't know much what the Booker Prize was, but reading the news that it was the highest award in the English world, it must be very awesome.

At first, he didn't know about it, but when he saw his classmates on the desk, he picked it up and flipped it over, and at first he recognized the young PI as a fart, not a π.

Maybe the number of pages he flipped through was appropriate, and it happened to be the middle time when one person and one tiger were fighting wits and courage at sea, and the excitement made him unable to take his eyes off.

However, the tablemate walked back, so Fang Yi only looked at the table with his eyes buried in reading, and when he had dinner that day, he went to the bookstore to buy a copy, and then slowly looked at it from the first page.

Although the previous description of Indian culture made him feel a little bored, after all, Chinese culture has a long history, and the history of thousands of years is not as good as Ah San?

However, occasionally looking at foreign depictions still helps to broaden his horizons, and he firmly believes that Zhang Chu cannot spend pen and ink in these useless places, and sure enough, when he is drifting, he has all kinds of praise from the front.

Fang Yi still remembers the way he discussed with his classmates, and his table mate actually felt that "Life of Pi" was a sunny and inspirational story, and he didn't seem to understand the meaning of telling the investigator the second story at the end.

He forwarded the report of Xinlang News to Weibo, and left a message: "It deserves its name, this book is really good, it seems that my taste is not much different from those judges!"

Unexpectedly, this comment was liked by more than a dozen netizens, all of whom had the same idea.

At this time, Fang Yi suddenly saw that the official Weibo of the Nanhai Publishing Company he was concerned about had updated a message, and it turned out to be a retweet of the lottery again, but this time it looked much more generous!

[Congratulations to Mr. Chu Zhang for winning the 2019 Booker Prize, becoming the first award-winning work in Asia.] Forward this Weibo and @ three friends, you will have the opportunity to get the perfect commemorative edition of the physical book "Youth Pi", Zhang Chu's hand-drawn illustrations are exposed for the first time, with a new cover and new layout. A total of 100 will be given to everyone!]

There is also a special picture under the microblog, although the cover pattern is still Zhang Chu's, but this is known as the perfect commemorative edition of the cover with a few more rows of words: "Phenomenal bestseller, recommended by readers in 30 countries with tears." The first winner of the Booker Prize in Asia, swept the major lists, ranked first in the selection of books by independent booksellers in the United States, and ranked first in the recommended reading by American libraries! Sold well in 25 countries including the United States, Britain, Germany, France, the Netherlands, and Italy within a year, touching the sunshine healing of millions of readers around the world!

Knowing that this is a circle of money, what can Fang Yi do?

Let's try to see if you can win the lottery, if you don't win the lottery, you must go to the bookstore to buy a copy, and I feel like I'm bursting when I read these recommendations!