Chapter 360: Unexpected
Yan University is such a huge school, and people who are willing to read don't know how much it is, how can just ten books be enough?
Especially here is barely Zhang Chu's base camp, if it is a bestseller, those works that joke about history may not sell well, but academic works are simply in the middle of the heart, okay!
This is Yan University, with tens of thousands of students in it, Zhang Chu is also one of these students, many people are counting on coming to see his academic works, just ten books are definitely not enough, even if another hundred books are just a drop in the bucket.
Even not only at Yan University, but also the students at Tsinghua University next door are probably very curious about this writer from the neighboring school, and they are eager to find loopholes in it.
What's the point of criticizing popularity, a lot of that stuff is imaginary, imaginary, and people know that those criticisms are not useful.
But academic works are different, since they are academic, they must be rigorous, there can be no obvious loopholes, and there can be no various mistakes.
Criticizing "The Fifteenth Year of Wanli" is an internal matter in the academic world, and it can also play a more effective role, after all, academic works live by fame and word of mouth!
If you want to criticize it, you must first understand it, and if you haven't read this book, you don't know where to scold.
Since he claims to be a literati, he must be reasonable, and he can't pretend to be crazy and stupid like the brain-dead on the Internet.
The speed of the cashier was a little slow, Sun Ruiqi didn't know that he was lucky to get the last book, and a few people came to inquire one after another, only to return disappointed.
At this time, Zhang Chu only cared about Sister Zhou's last sentence, and he asked curiously: "Isn't the bookstore business very good?
Even if the bookstore has been selling at a low price for a long time, the volume of goods is too large, according to Zhang Chu's observation at this time, it is impossible for the weeds bookstore to lose money!
The bookstore on campus is probably the least affected by e-commerce, after all, the customers are teachers and students, and their group of people read more.
Sister Zhou sighed and complained: "Who knows what the school thinks, to re-bid for the bookstore downstairs in our dormitory, it is clear that there is a cat." ”
The Wild Grass Bookstore is located on the ground floor of 45 A of the Yanda dormitory, and the structure of the house is actually relatively old, and several bookstores are combined.
Zhang Chu kept this news in his heart, and he comforted and said: "As long as the bookstore does not collapse, there must be a solution." ”
At this time, Sun Ruiqi, who had already paid the money, beckoned to Zhang Chu and shouted, "I've already bought it, let's go." ”
"You're so lucky, this is the last copy of "The Fifteenth Year of Wanli" in the Wild Grass Bookstore, and you actually bought it. This luck is against the sky, go buy a lottery ticket and see if you can win a few millions. Yang Ling quipped.
Sun Ruiqi was very satisfied with the plastic bag in her hand, "Even if the Wild Grass Bookstore doesn't have it, the Xinhua Bookstore must have it, but it's just a little more expensive." ”
Xinhua Bookstore rarely has discounts, and even if they are discounted, they are not very large, but they can get the most works by virtue of the group's advantages.
After all, don't offend Xinhua Bookstore if you offend anyone, if it can't be put on the shelves of Xinhua Bookstore, it will be difficult to promote it nationwide, after all, this is the largest chain bookstore in the country.
Zhang Chu followed them slowly downstairs in the dormitory and said, "You two go back to the dormitory to read, I have to walk back to write a book." ”
Yang Ling had wanted to say this for a long time, where was basking in the sun as attractive as reading a book, he immediately nodded and said, "Okay, let's contact us again in the evening." I just saw "The Fifteenth Year of Wanli" at the third subheading. ”
"I'll talk to you about this book later, and I'll read it twice before I talk about it. ”
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Zhang Chu didn't rush back, he shuttled around the campus slowly, seriously thinking about the news he got from the Weeds Bookstore before.
Since the bidding is going to be re-tendered, can your own Hanlinxuan bookstore get a piece of the pie?
Although it is not very reliable to open a branch so far from Jiangcheng to Yanjing, Zhang Chu really wants to see his bookstore appear on the campus of Yenching University.
This is probably a kind of pilgrimage psychology, Yenching University has an extraordinary status in the eyes of the whole people, it is the best school, with the best students, if you can really open a branch, it is really a dream come true!
However, Zhang Chu is not such an impulsive person, it is not easy to open a new bookstore, so the specific matter of the bidding has not been figured out, and it has to be carefully investigated.
In fact, he didn't open a bookstore to make money now, if he really wanted to make money so much, then he could write one more book, and the money he could earn was probably more than opening a bookstore, and it would be easier.
After returning home, Matcha tilted his head and squatted on the carpet waiting for him to open the door, Zhang Chu squatted down to change his shoes and touched the little guy's head, and when he was about to pick it up, Matcha directly dodged away, leaving only a round, black back!
Zhang Chu picked up a bottle of mineral water and drank two sips, sat in front of the computer and prepared to continue his morning work, and wrote that he went to the gym outside the community to exercise at three or four o'clock.
Probably a slight obsessive-compulsive disorder, he must click on it to check after seeing a QQ message reminder, otherwise he always feels itchy in his heart.
The little penguins that jumped were very unpleasant, and after Zhang Chu clicked on it, he found that it was Gu Xinxue, the editor of Nanhai Publishing Company!
At the beginning, Gu Xinxue signed "Detective Sherlock", but he did not pull the cash cow "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" with enough chips, but fortunately, now the two sides have rebuilt themselves with "Wanli Fifteen Years".
Gu Xinxue sent a message and said, "Xiao Zhang, I have good news for you. All of our first 500,000 copies have been shipped out of the warehouse, and I have already applied for a second reprint, which is expected to be reprinted 500,000 times. We all misestimated the market before, but I didn't expect such works to be very popular, especially among college students, and even many teachers and office workers have bought your books. ”
Leaving the warehouse does not mean selling out, it may be at the dealer's side, or it may be at the bookstore's side, and it is impossible for the entire 500,000 books to be sold out in one day.
Zhang Chu saw with his own eyes the popularity of this book on the campus of Yan University, and he thought that it was because of the alumni relationship that made it sell better, but he didn't expect it to sell well on other campuses!
"Editor Gu, do you think "The Fifteenth Year of Wanli" can be crowned this week?"
Gu Xinxue's response was quite rapid, probably he had been waiting, "It can only be said that there is a relatively large probability, its actual sales are very good, and the online sales are a little small, so you need to look at the faces of the rest of the works." ”
There are not only books on the list, but also many other works.
The TV series effect of "Sherlock" has gradually passed, even if there is news of Zhang Chu's contract renewal to help extend his life, it is still very difficult to hold the top spot, and the single-day sales in the last two days have retreated to the edge of the top ten, and it is estimated that he will leave directly from the top ten today!
Now in the first place is a book with Chinese characteristics, although the "Reader's Series of Important Speeches of the Secretary" produced by the People's Publishing House does not have any discounts, but the physical sales are amazing, almost reaching 100%, and few people buy the e-book version.
There is also the famous host Xiao Xu pushing her own works behind, she is the most popular female host at the moment, and there are a large number of stars in the entertainment industry to recommend, this "Xiao Xu's Happiness Lesson for Women" is menacing!
In addition, "Business Part II", which is known as a must-win book in the workplace war, is also very attractive, even though this book has been published for almost a year, but I don't know why it has become popular again recently.
The most bizarre thing is probably the book "Healthy Life Lowers Blood Lipids" published in 2008, which is one of the three highs health care series, which proves that modern human beings have higher and higher requirements for health, and even have to buy books to learn and learn.
Now "The Fifteenth Year of Wanli" is almost impossible to win compared with these books, and everyone's actual sales are actually about the same, and winning is a matter of millimeters.
Over there, Gu Xinxue sighed: "In the past, the ratio of physical books and e-books in your works was almost 1:1, each accounting for half, and even when "Ghost Blows the Lamp", the sales of e-books were higher than those of physical books. But this time is different, "The Fifteenth Year of Wanli" has been released for so long, and it has not yet reached the top of the major e-book lists!"
E-book downloads have always been an important part of Zhang Chu's sales, because most of his readers are young people, and young people use e-books more often.
He relied on these two legs to walk, but now one leg is missing, which is why the prospect of winning the championship is clouded.
He hurriedly opened the Amazon online bookstore to see what was going on, after all, the Internet was an important cornerstone for him, and he didn't want to reach the top too fast before!
On the Amazon e-book list, at the top of the real-time list is a work called "Miracle Boy", the movie adapted from this book is being released all over the world, touching one person after another, and it is extremely normal for the Chinese version of the original book to reach the top.
Zhang Chu's mouse kept sliding down, and it wasn't until he found the book "The Fifteenth Year of Wanli" on the 8th place, not to mention reaching the top, and he didn't even enter the top five.
The new book sales list is probably its only fig leaf, at least at the top of this list, which is indeed not optimistic.
"This is probably the gap between popular and academic works, and it seems that this book can only focus on the promotion of physical books. ”
Zhang Chu said to himself, the electronic version does look very weak!