In the next few days, Zhuang Yan's life became regular again, writing "Shuke and Beta" when he had nothing to do during the day, and if he was tired of writing, he would go to the "literary and artistic world" or "face to face" to have a look, and occasionally interact with readers.

In the middle, Chen Jiaqing also sent Xiaoying over once, just like last time, it was about six o'clock, and it was picked up at nine o'clock.

Zhuang Yan is also happy to communicate with the little girl more, he stays at home alone every day, and he will always be a little lonely.

As for what Chen Jiaqing was going to do at night, Zhuang Yan didn't ask, maybe she found a new boyfriend, and it was normal to go out on a date every once in a while, if he had to ask, it might cause embarrassment to the other party.

As for the matter of looking for a house on the Internet, Zhuang Yan didn't know why, and suddenly his mind faded, not that he didn't want to move, but that he was not as active in finding a house as before.

After about four or five days of such days, Zhuang Yan suddenly received a call from Wang Lijian, telling him that the layout of the new book had been decided, and asking him if he wanted to write a preface himself.

Zhuang Yan thought for a while, but shook his head and rejected the idea of writing a preface for his book.

And there are too many things in the book "Alive" that do not exist in this world, if he wants to really write a preface, he will undoubtedly explain these things appropriately, but Zhuang Yan has no such thoughts, so he refuses.

However, Wang Lijian didn't seem surprised, and he didn't dwell on it anymore, just said "I know" and didn't say anything more.

In addition, Wang Lijian also told Zhuang Yan that the official release time of the book is set for August 12. also asked Zhuang Yan if he wanted a few copies to give to relatives or something, and Zhuang Yan refused, he really can't think of who to send books to now except for the duck friend, if he really has to think about it, he can give Chen Jiaqing a copy, but this is only two copies, there is no need to ask the publishing house for it.

As for the typesetting, Zhuang Yan doesn't care, he can't give any advice on whether it's good or not, the publishing house is a professional, and there is no need for him to point fingers as a layman. In Zhuang Yan's mind, as long as there is the title of the book and his own name on the book cover, it is not a big deal.

August 12 is the day after tomorrow, but according to Wang Lijian, on August 12, Zhuang Yan could not buy his own books in the bookstore here in Jinling.

The first printing of 20,000 books was distributed in major bookstores in Yanjing.

There are many bookstores in Yanjing, and there are 15 Zhonghua Bookstores alone, which are similar to the later Xinhua Bookstores and are also the largest state-owned book distribution enterprises in the country.

Founded in 1899, Chung Hwa Bookstore has been a leader in the book industry for 17 years.

However, in addition to Zhonghua Bookstore, Yanjing also has countless large bookstores with unique characteristics, such as the time-honored bookstores "Yanyouji", "One-way Street" and "Pulan Sky", as well as bookstores that have opened in recent years, such as "Chinese Light" and "Oracle Bone Reading".

According to a rough estimate, there are more than 100 bookstores in Yanjing alone, so the idea of the publishing house is to sell the books in Yanjing first, and then decide the number to be shipped to various places according to the sales volume of each bookstore.

Zhuang Yan has no opinion on this, if the book sells well, the publishing house will naturally find a way to open up the market, if the sales are not good, there is no need to sell the book in more bookstores.

Zhuang Yan carefully looked for the memory fragments of the predecessor about book sales, and found that the sales of a single book in this world are generally much higher than in the previous life, and generally a book can only be considered a bestseller if it sells more than 200,000 a year.

Moreover, China's total book sales can reach 10 billion copies a year, and the sales revenue can reach more than 700 billion yuan.

Although half of the 10 billion copies are social science and engineering reference books and teaching materials, and only 10 percent are literature, Zhuang Yan was also taken aback by the calculation of 10 percent, which is far more than the annual book sales in China in the previous century.

Judging from this data, how can this era be an era of literary decline, he is obviously more prosperous than the previous life.

But if you search your memory carefully, you will know that the sales of these books are basically domestic and foreign classics, while the sales of newly published books are not very good.

In other words, the current market is a market where supply exceeds demand, and there are enough books read, but too few books are written, or rather, it is not that there are too few books, but that the quality of new books is too poor for readers to look at.

At this time, Zhuang Yan also noticed that the average price of a book is much more expensive than that of another world, and if it is calculated, the price of his book "Alive" is estimated to be about 80 yuan.

Eighty yuan a copy, Zhuang Yan was happy in his heart, the contract of the publishing house had just been signed, and their first printing fee had not yet been paid, so he didn't know that the books in this world were so expensive.

Now, if "Alive" sells for 80 yuan, he can get close to 10 yuan for a book, and 200,000 yuan for the first 20,000 books. It was a small fortune that was not big or small.

Zhuang Yan is of course happy to be able to make money, and after seeing the memory fragments of his predecessor, Zhuang Yan is also looking forward to the sales of "Alive", and he is no longer satisfied with the first printing of 20,000 copies.

Not to mention that in this world where the book market is in short supply, even in his original world, the sales of the book "Alive" are also very amazing, and its total sales Zhuang Yan does not know, he only remembers that once Yu Hua himself said that after "Alive" was published for more than ten years, it can still sell 300,000 copies a year.

Zhuang Yan suddenly felt that if the sales of "Alive" in this world were too low, not only would he not be able to make money, but he also seemed to have lost Yu Hua's face, although this book was very different from the original "Alive", but the things in his bones were the same.

I don't know why the publishing house has not moved, and it will be published the day after tomorrow, and now I see a small advertisement on the website of "Literary and Art World": The physical book "Alive" is about to be published.

didn't even have a release date, Zhuang Yan couldn't help but complain, and even regretted a little, whether he jumped into a fire pit because of the 12% high royalty.

But then Zhuang Yan cheered up, and he was ready to promote his book on the "face-to-face".

He mentioned it on the "face-to-face" note, but he didn't elaborate on it, because the official release date was not known at the time.

He didn't expect Wang Lijian to set the release date so close, from getting the contract to typesetting to the official release, there was only a short five days in between.

I'm afraid that before they get the contract, the publisher will start to prepare the proofreading and typesetting, otherwise it will not be possible to get it done in two days.