Chapter 391: The Most Expensive Fan
Just when Yao Qian was running up and down for the school, Yu Hai called and told Zhuang Yan the good news that the first five million copies of "Sophie's World" had been basically sold out, and the five million copies of the additional printing were also working overtime to produce them in the printing house.
After the peak period in the early stage, the daily sales of this book are still around 200,000, and at this rate, I am afraid that the five million copies printed will not be able to support it for long.
"I haven't counted it, but I guess you're already the best-selling writer by now. On the phone, Yu Hai sighed.
Although Zhuang Yan's sales of each book are not too high, he can't stand the speed of his book, and there are only one or two bestsellers of others, but Zhuang Yan is different, he starts from the first book, and each book is very good at playing alone.
I haven't counted it carefully, but all his books together must have sold more than 100 million now. And most of his books don't last long, and as time goes on, they sell more and more.
The most important thing is that if he keeps this creative speed, his popularity will always be high, and it will also drive the sales of old books.
For example, this time, while "Sophie's World" was on fire, the sales of the previous books also recovered more or less.
Yu Hai called and said another thing, the foreign language version of "Sophie's World" is also in full swing in translation, and the fastest should be the English version, because Liang Qichao had already got the book when he was early, and the English version of the manuscript would come out in the next two days.
Foreign book lovers have long had opinions about the new book only being released in China, and they have been making comments on the official website these days.
In addition, Yu Hai also complained to Zhuang Yan about something.
"Hurry up and get all your letters, our publishing house has come out with an empty room in order to put your letters, and it looks like it's almost full. ”
Yu Hai mentioned the letter a few days ago, and most of these letters were mailed to Zhuang Yan by fans, but they didn't know Zhuang Yan's address, so they could only send them to the publishing house.
At the beginning, there were not a lot of letters, and no one cared about them there, but later there were more and more letters, and piling them up in the publishing house had affected the normal work of the publishing house, so Yu Hai contacted Yao Qian and asked him to get all the letters away quickly, and to get a fixed studio as soon as possible, so that fans should not send things to the publishing house in the future.
Yao Qian asked Zhuang Yan for instructions on this matter, and Zhuang Yan originally meant to deal with it on the spot, but later Yao Qian suggested that they stay, and after they got a studio in the future, they could have an empty room for letters, which was also convenient for establishing a people-friendly image in the future.
Zhuang Yan is not very interested in such things as establishing an image, but since Yao Qian already has an idea, he can just leave it to him.
It's just that the company hasn't done it well before, so Yao Qian only verbally promised Yu Hai to clean it up, but it hasn't passed.
"Well, I know, the company is done now, I'll urge Yao Qian when I go back. Zhuang Yan said.
"That's good, we've categorized these letters for you, some of them are fan letters, and some of them are certificates from some literary awards, which I've mentioned to you before, and if you look back, at least you know what awards you've won. Yu Hai said.
The matter of awards has been said before, but generally only important awards, they will focus on telling him, like general awards that are not famous, at most they are mentioned in passing, and it is impossible for Zhuang Yan to receive the award.
Most literary awards are not as shameless as the budding literary awards, and even if they don't accept them, their awards are handed out.
Normally, a certificate will be sent over, and it will be mixed in with that pile of letters.
For Zhuang Yan, only the level of the four major literary awards is a little attractive to him now, but the four major literary awards should not be able to be won this year.
Last year was a big year for the Literary Awards, and both the Pu Songling Award and the Luo Guanzhong Award were awarded last year, which means that the next draw for these two awards will be next year.
The other two awards, a three-word and two-shot award for script creation, although this year's award, Zhuang Yan has not yet created a script, so he is destined to miss this award.
As for the Wei Jin Award, it was awarded the year before last, and this award has the longest interval between each session, which takes three years, so the next award will also be next year.
Previously, when Wang Lijian talked about the awards, he joked that next year is a big year for the literary award once in six years, and if Zhuang Yan can win three awards in one fell swoop, it will be an unprecedented initiative that has never been done before.
However, this idea is basically impossible, because there was a rule in the last edition of the Pu Songling Award, that is, the same writer cannot win the Pu Songling Award twice in a row.
Zhuang Yan just won the award last year, which means that he has been excluded from the selection of next year's award.
As for Luo Guanzhong and the Wei Jin Award, the possibility is also slim, after all, not every award will be as bold as the Pu Songling Award, pulling down the age of the winners so much at once.
Especially Luo Guanzhong, the award has always valued qualifications.
In view of this, Zhuang Yan didn't care too much about what Wang Lijian said.
As soon as he hung up Yu Hai's phone, Zhuang Yan was about to call Yao Qian to talk about cleaning up the letters, but Yao Qian's phone came first.
"Boss, the school's affairs have been negotiated, and the final decision is 180 million, with a down payment of 80 million, and a two-year installment, just waiting for you to sign. ”
Hearing this news, Zhuang Yan had a smile on his face, the school matter had dragged on for a long time, and now it was finally settled, and he said very happily, "Since this is the case, then you make an appointment with them, and I will sign the contract later." ”
"The time is still up to the boss, and the other party said that you can do it at any time, and the place to sign the contract is in the school. Yao Qian said.
Zhuang Yan nodded and said, "I can do it at any time, so let's set it tomorrow and implement it as soon as possible, so that other work can be carried out later." ”
"Okay, I'll inform the other party, speaking of which, when I went to the school to talk today, their principal was shocked, saying that he didn't even know that it was the boss that you were going to buy the school. I didn't expect him to recognize me, and he's also a fan of yours. ”
Yao Qian didn't tell the other party his identity when he talked before, so they all thought it was a cultural company that wanted to buy a school, but after seeing Yao Qian today, they recognized him as Zhuang Yan's agent, and naturally knew that Zhuang Yan wanted to buy a school.
Not telling them about their identity is not because they are not disrespectful, but because they don't want to expose the news that they want to run a school when things are not implemented, causing unnecessary trouble.
Zhuang Yan smiled and said, "Don't talk about fans or anything, I didn't know that I would ask for 1.5 billion yuan to buy a school, but now I know that the asking price is 1.8 billion, his fans are not cheap." "Take a hundred plating" The latest chapters of "Wonderful Claw Book House in the Literary and Art World" are free to read for the first time.