The booming New Year's Day is indeed a New Year for Zhang Chu's fans, there are too many surprises!

First of all, "Norwegian Wood" was released in advance, and then the preview of the first season of the cartoon "What Happened to That Rabbit" was launched, and then there was hope every week!

Countless people are looking forward to Friday, and even though it's already Wednesday, it's really a long wait.

Even in the face of siege, "Norwegian Wood" still led the rest of the competition during the holidays, leaving the rest of the competition far behind.

In the dazzling bibliography, Zhang Chu's works are placed in the most conspicuous position, even if they are jointly sniped by several major listed publishing companies this time, it has not pulled it off the top of the sales list!

Zhang Chu didn't want to write a work that would lie in an inconspicuous corner of a bookstore or a warehouse, and it would be too miserable if no one cared about it for months on end.

Everyone wants to write a bestseller, and they don't want to be a dead seller.

But the market is cruel, and the number of books sold annually is less than 5, accounting for more than one-third of all book varieties!

This is a terrifying statistic, at least one-third of books are at risk of being scrapped every year, and nearly half of them are left in warehouses.

Zhang Chu is also a person who has run a bookstore, and for key books, he has to check the inventory and sales every day.

Of course, if you sell well, you have to add more, and if you don't sell well, you will naturally face the danger of elimination.

Generally speaking, if the sales are not good for six months in a row, then the copy will be cleared first.

For unsalable books in online bookstores and physical bookstores, the time limit for removal is usually 3 to 6 months.

Now science and technology have greatly facilitated book management, as long as you scan the ISBN code of the book with the book scanner, the data of three months, the sales of the month, the sales of the day, and the sales of the week are clear at a glance!

The more popular the book, the more substitutable it is, and the sales cycle is very short.

It is not that unsalable books may not be sold at all, their fate is often twists and turns, and there is a small probability that they will be reborn.

In a chain bookstore, the type of bestseller and the type of unsold book may be reversed due to the location of the bookstore and the main customer group.

However, these books like Zhang Chu are considered bestsellers in various bookstores, and none of them have been returned!

Even "Psychological Crime", the worst-selling work, has a total sales of more than two million copies, driven by the movie of the same name.

Three days later, "Norwegian Wood" has sold a terrifying 1.38 million copies, which continues his usual strong performance.

It is true that some book reviewers have read this work before, but it is inevitable that there will be omissions.

After facing the majority of readers, this so-called masterpiece of pure love will also usher in more critical and scrutinizing eyes.

There may still be some book reviewers or readers who haven't finished reading it, but there have been many professional book reviews one after another.

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Eisuke Natsukawa is an RB international student at Tsinghua University, and he has always been particularly interested in Chinese culture, so he did not hesitate to choose to come to China when he was in college.

If you don't introduce yourself in ordinary life, no one knows that he is RB and speaks Chinese very fluently!

Previously, Eisuke Natsukawa had a good friend who became popular on the Internet, and that guy woke up the new RB international students on Weibo, but he was besieged by a bunch of Jingri elements.

It is said that the fastest way to master a language is through scolding, and his friend's scolding skills are indeed first-class, and there is no trace of any foreigner at all, and he is completely a standard Chinese netizen.

Although Eisuke Natsukawa's level is not that high, he can also read various works proficiently.

"Eisuke, look at this report. Zhang Chu's book is about to be translated into Japanese, is his book popular in Japan?" In the cafeteria, Deng Hao, a classmate of Eisuke Natsukawa, couldn't hold back his curiosity.

"I'm in China for most of the year, so how do I know what sales are going to be at RB. But when I returned to Tokyo during winter vacation last year, I saw a Japanese dubbed version of "Sherlock" on the flight. ”

Eisuke Natsukawa's Chinese has a bit of a northeast accent in it, and I don't know if it was influenced by the speaking teacher.

Deng Hao burst out laughing, almost squirting out the rice in his mouth.

"You still need dubbing to watch British dramas? Fortunately, domestic video websites don't do this to us. , my old man, what the hell. For God's sake, forgive me for what I just did. I swear I'll never listen to you tell a bad joke at dinner next time. Damn!"

The translation tone with the tone of the old translated film was vividly displayed by Deng Hao, and Eisuke Natsukawa shook his head and said: "Actually, not every movie or TV series has been translated. But you know, we RB like detective mystery works very much, so the Japanese dubbing should take care of more audiences. Not every RB person can understand English. ”

"Yes, you RB people have an English accent comparable to that of Indians. Deng Hao was palpitating, he went to Nara to see deer alone during the summer vacation, and asked the locals for directions in English, but they couldn't understand what they said at all, and they couldn't understand it!

Natsukawa Eisuke silently put down the spoon, he was still sitting here, and he dared to complain.

If you don't die, you won't die, Deng Hao said upright, he imitated the accent of the anime character and said: "Seeing you appear in front of me, I can't help but cry, this atmosphere is really annoying." More than anything else, being able to get along with you easily is more important. As long as I see you, I will naturally smile, and I will be healed inexplicably and full of vitality!"

"I said you're pretty much done, you have to know how to do it in moderation. "Eisuke Natsukawa doesn't want to see some kind of philosophical scenes, and the dubbing in these anime scenes really makes him a little unbearable.

After successfully disgusting his friend, Deng Hao started eating again, and he couldn't accept that the school next door had a winter vacation a week or two earlier than his own school.

After eating, Eisuke Natsukawa plans to go back to the dormitory to take a nap and then go to the library to read, and the final exam for international students is not too difficult.

Lying on the bed in the student apartment, he opened Twitter and found that many people were asking him about the Japanese version of Zhang Chu's book "Norwegian Wood"!

"It seems that I underestimated Zhang Chu's influence in RB, and there are so many middle school classmates who like his works. ”

He didn't stay at home very often, and Eisuke Natsukawa really didn't appreciate the influence of Zhang Chu among young Japanese people.

I really didn't expect Zhang Chu's works to sell so well internationally, among which the Japanese sales of "Sherlock" exceeded one million copies, and "Life of Pi" also followed, and the most terrifying thing is that the Japanese version of "The Da Vinci Code" is still at the top of the bestseller list, second only to the popular Mai Shiraishi photo album and "90 years old, what is there to celebrate"!

Eisuke Natsukawa saw on Amazon Japan that the number of e-book downloads of "The Da Vinci Code" has been the first this week, but the physical sales of bookstores are worse than those two!