Some people may have begun to question the efficiency of the Guardian, which only started selling the English version today, but the book review has already been written.

This is the ability of large companies to increase the impact of their works by handing them over to influential media and book reviewers before they go on sale, so that they can read and evaluate them!

It is undeniable that list recommendations and book reviewer recommendations are the only magic weapon for works to increase fame.

Just like inviting film critics and professional newspapers to conduct test screenings before the movie is released, they are all eager to be recommended by film critics, and a good reputation is more conducive to later operations.

Now the first day of 70,000 copies is already the best performance of the new book on sale yesterday, under the operation of Random House, almost all the chain bookstores have placed "Sherlock" in the most prominent position, and at the same time, Amazon has given a number of recommendations.

The UK Amazon New Books List ranked third, the US Amazon New Books List ranked seventh, Australia ranked fourth, Canada ranked tenth, and the four major English-speaking countries all rushed into the top 10 on the list!

It's only Wednesday now, and it only takes one day to catch up with the sales of the rest of the works in three days, and it is expected to rush to the top of the new book list!

Almost none of the new books in the British book category will be the opponent of "Sherlock", and on the list of books classified by book genre, it has rushed to the top three in the subcategory of mystery detective.

Looking at it, it seems that almost all of the lists that can be made have already been made, and now netizens are obviously looking forward to it to a higher level, and they have set their sights on the book sales list in the United Kingdom and the United States.

I don't expect the annual list to be famous, I just hope to leave footprints on the weekly list, which is already an unprecedented move!

It's just that it seems to be quite difficult to achieve this goal at the moment.

For example, Gray, which is the number one book in the United Kingdom, has been the number one book for four weeks in a row, selling 640,000 copies in three days of sales, and still has more than 200,000 copies a week.

Although it won the championship in the United Kingdom, it has only been in the top 10 of the weekly list of New York Times bestsellers once, and it is only ranked 23rd on Amazon's 2018 Instant Sales Annual List in the United States!

In the final analysis, although the British like to read, because the population is too small, the sales volume is still not comparable to that of populous countries such as China and the United States.

In second place on the UK list is the children's work "Grandpa's Great Escape" written by the famous comedy star David Williams, and the British household name star plus the setting of children's books happens to be almost Thanksgiving and Christmas at this time, and it is expected to climb a lot under the influence of the holiday effect.

There are also "The Girl on the Train", "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School", and "Millie Marotta's Animal Kingdom" coloring book, among others.

None of them can be pulled down easily, most of them are works that have passed the test of the market and readers' word of mouth, and it is quite difficult for Zhang Chu's new book to rush up!

Sherlock is currently priced at £12.99 a copy in the UK, which is already quite expensive, with many titles costing 7.99 or 9.99.

The fame is not dominant, the price is at a disadvantage, and the road to the top of "Sherlock" does not look optimistic.

This is true of the most promising of all, and the competition in the American book market is even greater!

Richard's "Night School", which was released at the same time as Zhang Chu yesterday, directly topped the new book sales list, although he only sold 48,000 copies worldwide, but all of them were concentrated in the United States.

Unlike "Sherlock", which sold 71,000 copies worldwide, only some of them are in the U.S. market, after all, there is no such thing as a global book sales list, and everyone just counts the works in their respective countries.

Richard is one of the most famous mystery writers in Britain, he has never written before, he picked up the pen and wrote the first part of the "Prodigal Detective" Jack Rich series after losing his job at the age of confusion, and as a result, it appeared on the best-selling lists of the British "Times" and "The Guardian" as soon as it was published, and he won the Anthony Award, one of the highest awards for mystery in the United States!

Richard, who paid $6 for pen and paper, slowly withdrew from the sequel, and each time it was published, it was sure to conquer the best-selling charts on both sides of the Atlantic, and now sold more than 37 million copies worldwide.

This "Night School" tells the story of Jack Richie when he was a young man, when Richie was a gendarmerie in the U.S. Army, and Night School was the code name for the Interagency Action Group.

Perhaps it was to release a new book before the popularity of the Anthony Awards completely disappeared, "Night School" was released in the United States two weeks in advance, and the author Richard's hometown of the United Kingdom has not yet been released!

This is just like Sherlock's chance to gain a foothold in the British book market.

At the same time, there is a hint of interest in the American book market, where there have been no scenes of two mystery works competing against each other for many years.

Now "Night School" is facing "Sherlock", one is the prodigal son Detective Jack Richie, and the other is the legendary Sherlock Holmes who is arranged in a modern setting, which is simply a prosperous age for lovers of mystery and detectives!

One is the king of the thriller reasoning world, and the other is a little-known Chinese youth, and many netizens have already made a choice in their hearts.

Of course, Jack Richie's adventure story is going to win, the perfect combination of a hard-boiled detective and classical secret room reasoning, where is that nobody can match!

Of course, for "Sherlock", it is a huge honor and an excellent opportunity to be compared with the top kings by the media and netizens.

The staff of Random House did not expect the media to send such an assist, and the proposal to bundle publicity was denied, but it ended up this way!

This is not only a good thing for "Sherlock", but also an opportunity for "Night School".

Great works need great opponents, and the best opponents can achieve each other.

If it was just a good seller, the news of "Night School" would be very boring, but now that it has a rival who is constantly catching up behind, it will get more attention!

After all, there are waves and highlights, which is better than a pool of stagnant water.

Now the question is whether "Sherlock" can impact the supremacy of "Night School" in the American market!

If we can continue to fight against each other, those two books will probably benefit a lot from it, and achieve a win-win situation.

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