At the end of the long plane journey, when Zhou Kang and the others set foot on the land of China again, all of them lost the idea of talking, and only thought about ending this tired day quickly.

After everyone picks up their luggage, they wave goodbye, take the airport bus by the airport bus, take the subway by subway, take a taxi to call Didi or someone to pick them up and leave.

Zhou Kang also wanted to take the convenient airport bus into the city, because the place where the airport bus dropped off passengers was not far in front of his house.

But when he passed by the CITIC bookstore, he was attracted by the large poster in front of the bookstore!

Now the Mona Lisa has become a symbol of The Da Vinci Code, and the painting is tied to success.

When you see the Mona Lisa, you will think of this in your head, this is the role of propaganda brainwashing!

Being able to associate with the world's top famous paintings is almost the best way to promote it.

[On October 10th, the global sale, the shocking secret that the Xunshan Hermitage painstakingly concealed, the ancient truth that shocked countless readers, everything is in "The Da Vinci Code"!]

It is now the morning of the 10th, and most of the bookstores and online bookstores in China have begun to sell at the time.

The CITIC Bookstore at the airport is brightly decorated, with many bookshelves inside, and in the most conspicuous position is the new book of the week, and many customers are standing in front of this shelf.

"There happens to be a bookstore at the airport, so I don't have to go back in the future. This "Da Vinci Code" is very popular on the Internet, buy it and take a look!"

"When I was on the plane before, I was still thinking about whether to buy an electronic version later, but now I still buy a physical book, which is only more than 20 yuan anyway. ”

"Do you see the puzzle on the Internet? The clues written by Zhang Chu are very interesting, and you can get the password by reversing the alphabetical order of these words, which is said to be the simplest one. ”

"When we went to the Louvre to see the Mona Lisa, there were so many people, all of them crowded in front of the glass, and I knew that this painting was not that simple!"

"Buy it, we'll discuss the plot or something together then. ”

"I'm slow to read, don't patronize and give me spoilers!"

"Zhang Chu's book is still worth a look, I haven't seen this kind of reasoning and suspense book before, and I don't know what the content is. ”

"Shocking secrets, ancient truths, more and more interested!"

Zhou Kang pretended to have the book in his hand, but in fact, his ears had been quietly listening to the chats of these readers.

It's just been released, and most readers haven't even bought it yet, so of course the talk about the content is just speculation.

The more than a dozen copies of The Da Vinci Code on the bookshelf were quickly emptied, and the staff pulled a few copies from the large stack of books with sinuous spiral shapes next to them and placed them on the shelves, so that the covers were facing outward, which was more direct!

"This little brother, I want to ask, how is "The Da Vinci Code" selling today?"

The staff who was placing the books looked at Zhou Kang, and found no trace of the camera before he spoke: "It's selling well, since the opening of the door, more than 50 books have been sold, and there are a lot of books bought by tourists at the airport." ”

"And how many supplies do you have prepared?"

"We have prepared 500 copies, and we will have to ask the store manager to transfer the goods in about three days. Zhang Chu's has always been sellable. Our business is a bit worse than the bookstores in the departure lounge, and many people are willing to read books while waiting for their flight or taking a flight. ”

Indeed, everyone is a little bored when waiting for the plane, and after getting off the plane, everyone is in a hurry and goes straight to the destination.

A bookstore with average traffic can sell more than 50 books in two hours in the morning, and if it is the kind of bookstore with a large number of customers, it is estimated that the sales will be sky-high!

Zhou Kang originally wanted to ask something more, but the little brother pointed to the store manager over there and walked away quickly, and the staff talked about the fact that the store manager who was small-bellied chicken intestines would be fined if he saw it.

"It seems that the sales of Zhang Chu's book really don't have to worry, it depends on what level it can hit on the first day and the first week. ”

Suddenly, an idea popped up in his head, "The Da Vinci Code" should not have snatched the annual sales champion position of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", right?

The gap between the two is so big, if you can still turn over, you really have to kneel!

"It shouldn't be possible, with a lead of more than seven million copies, how can it be possible to sell so many in two or three months. ”

After throwing this terrifying idea out of his head, Zhou Kang came to the location of the airport bus to wait for the bus, it seemed that he couldn't rest today, and he had to go to work!

Since they have all received high wages and high treatment, they must suffer this hardship.

……

At this time, on the campus of Yan University, Zhang Chu carried his backpack on his left side and walked towards the cafeteria with An Mi and his party.

The National Day is cool for seven days, and I am too tired to come back to class, and I have to take six classes this Monday.

"Who is the prototype of Professor Yang Xuan in you, do we have this professor in our school?"

"Middle-aged, symbolic cryptographer, elegant male professor, Professor Yang Xuancong of our department is dozens of years older, and his major is not right, otherwise it would be just right. ”

"Anyway, I searched the academic office, and there is really an elective course called semiotics, and I plan to audit it. ”

Zhang Chu said helplessly: "A character is a character, there is no prototype, the focus is on the story, on the story!"

Yang Ling nodded and said: "I got up early this morning and bought this e-book, and I only stopped when I saw the class, dle is still very convenient to read, but I always like to use my mobile phone to search for relevant content while reading books, when will your illustrated version be listed, I'll wait to buy that version." ”

When it comes to a painting, a building, or a map, the text is obviously a bit abstract, for example, some paintings may not be clear if they are named, but they are clearly visible in the book.

"The illustrated version has to wait, I only found those pictures on the National Day and inserted them inside, I guess the book should be quite thick, at least three pounds in weight, but quite suitable for collection. ”

Anmi's eyes widened, and he said in surprise: "Three pounds, is this book going to be used to block bullets?"

"For the sake of print quality, it would be a hassle to print those pictures in color. ”

The three people in the same dormitory all bought The Da Vinci Code, but none of them asked what the shocking secret was.

It's better to watch this thing yourself, in case it's spoiled, a lot of wonderful works will have a feeling that you can't read it!

After coming to the cafeteria, they each took a plate to find their favorite food, and the eating habits of southerners and northerners are quite different.

Zhang Chu is going to work out this afternoon, so he bought kung pao chicken, braised beef and a broccoli, and it is better to eat less pork when working out.

The four of them sat down at a table, and Sun Ruiqi asked curiously: "It is said on the Internet that your "Da Vinci Code" can sell more than 2 million copies today, and it sells too well, right?"

"No, it sold so much on the first day, do you want to go to heaven?" Ammy stopped the spoon in his hand in surprise, 2 million books is not a small number.

Zhang Chu shook his head and said: "2 million is the number of pre-sales, and the physical books and e-books sold today are counted together, which is actually not much of a shock." The main reason is that there are more pre-sales. ”

"Yes, I saw a long queue on the logistics side of Jingdong campus today, and it was very comfortable to arrive the next day, and I could even pay in the morning and pick up the goods in the afternoon. Many people in our dormitory were bought at JD Books, which was cheap and fast. ”

"They all say that you have broken your own record, and the pre-sales are too powerful!"

"The pre-sale in China is 1.22 million, which is much higher than my previous book "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", which has changed from 400,000 to more than 1 million. In fact, this is also a relatively good marketing, and everyone's expectations for "The Da Vinci Code" are very high. "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" was not very popular at that time, and half of the content was serialized on the Internet, so the pre-sale was worse. ”

In addition to the 1.22 million pre-sold, as long as another 780,000 copies can be sold today, the first-day results can rush to 2 million.

A series of book-selling websites such as Jingdong Books, Dangdang Books, Amazon Books, China Books Network, and Xinhua Bookstore's official website have all replaced the large banner ads on the homepage with "The Da Vinci Code" without exception.

They even send recommendation text messages to users' mobile phones, so the sales coverage is a little wider!

The cost price that this kind of large online bookstore gets from the publisher is very low, so they can unscrupulously give books a 9% discount, 80% off, and then do crazy activities such as 100 minus 20.

Physical book sales are very high in these places, and e-book downloads are also not low, so 780,000 copies is really possible.

A brick-and-mortar bookstore may close at 9 p.m., but an online bookstore is open 24 hours a day, which gives it a longer time to increase sales!

The Da Vinci Code not only exploded in sales, but also set overseas sales records for Chinese books in the United Kingdom, France, the United States, and Australia, and more than ten times more than the sales of Nobel Prize winners in literature.

It was the Big Bang of the world, and it was a good result that surprised countless people, and Random House proved once again that it was worth the £12 million advance fee!

Very few Chinese writers have been able to publish their books globally, and most of them are just using their names as gimmicks.

Zhang Chu's new book is jointly promoted by Random House, São Paulo Publishing Company, and Nanhai Publishing Company, and the two most used languages in the world are combined, and the real meaning is to achieve simultaneous sales around the world!