Xu Qing glanced up at the wall clock hanging on the wall, 11:55, and 12 o'clock in the evening in 5 minutes.

Carlyle, who had been chatting with Xu Qing with a relaxed expression, sat up straight at this time, and his expression became serious, without the slightest appearance of being cheap, as if he was about to face a big battle.

Xu Qing saw Carlyle's appearance and said with a smile, "Carlyle, why is your expression so serious?"

Carlyle replied expressionlessly: "The results of the first day of sales of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone are about to be revealed, and I want to meet this great moment with the most serious and serious attitude." ”

"Carlyle, can you stop pretending, it's too hypocritical. Xu Qing shook his head helplessly, he could see at a glance that Carlyle's expression was pretending.

He also knew that Carlyle's purpose in doing this was to make him not nervous about the upcoming results.

I have to say that Carlyle's approach was effective, so that a trace of tension that Xu Qing had just risen immediately dissipated, he was very relaxed before, and at the last moment, there was still inevitably some nervousness.

After all, he personally participated in every link of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" from writing, printing to publicity, and sales, which cost him a huge amount of financial resources and energy.

The sales of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" are the foundation of his plan to earn $300 million in one year, and if the sales do not meet the target, the follow-up plan will not be carried out.

"Xu, you are insulting me, my expression is so sincere, more sincere than when I pray, you actually say that I am pretending. Carlyle was not happy and glared at Xu Qing.

"Keep up your performance, I still like to watch it. Xu Qing looked at Carlyle with a smile.

"Well, my acting skills are not up to par, much worse than your last performance in the apartment. Carlyle instantly removed his serious expression and replaced it with his trademark cheap look.

Xu Qing gave Carlyle a middle finger, then leaned back on the sofa, crossed his legs, and returned to his previous relaxed state.

Carlyle leaned back on the sofa in the same way as Xu Qing and sighed, "I still can't believe that you wrote a divine book like Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. ”

"I copied it. Xu Qing said with a smile.

"Who are you fooling, I saw what you wrote with my own eyes. Carlyle rolled his eyes.

"Well, you don't believe the truth, and I can't help it. ”

"How much do you think the first day of sales were?"

Xu Qing pondered for a while and said: "Smith called me so late, and he also implemented the conditions in advance, the sales should be very high, there are 300,000 copies." ”

"Wow!" Carlyle exclaimed, "300,000 copies sold on the first day, tens of millions of copies sold in a year, and then you will become the top best-selling author in the United States." ”

"Tens of millions of copies are sold sorry for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, at least hundreds of millions of copies. Xu Qing said confidently.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone doesn't necessarily reach that sales. Carlyle thought Xu Qing was talking big.

"We'll see. Xu Qing didn't say anything more.

Carlyle doesn't believe it's normal, countless books have been born in the entire history of mankind, and only a dozen books have sold hundreds of millions of copies.

In fact, Xu Qing couldn't understand why the sales of the Harry Potter series in his previous life reached 450 million copies, it was terrifying!

But Harry Potter is so powerful, so the first book Xu Qing chose to carry was it.

After chatting with Carlyle for a few more words, Xu Qing saw that the hands on the wall clock had reached 12 o'clock.

"Tick-tock. "12 o'clock is coming, and the first day of sales of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" in the United States is over!

Xu Qing sat in his office and waited, expecting it to take more than 10 minutes to learn about the first day of sales.

When there was a knock on the door, Xu Qing's spirit was shocked, it should be Yang Jin who came to report the sales situation, and he immediately said, "Please come in." ”

Yang Jin pushed open the door, walked up to Xu Qing with excitement on his face, and said in a trembling voice: "General manager, this is the first day of sales of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone". ”

Xu Qing took the document and didn't look through it immediately, but patted Yang Jin's shoulder first: "Thank you for your hard work." ”

"It's not hard, general manager, you're even harder. Yang Jin said sincerely.

There was some sycophancy in his words, but more of an admiration for Xu Qing, when he saw the first-day sales of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", he was extremely shocked, too powerful!

Book writing, printing, publicity, and sales are basically done by Xu Qing.

He had already thrown his previous impression of Xu Qing into the Pacific Ocean, and now all that was left was his admiration for Xu Qing and his vision for the future.

Xu Qing flipped through the file and saw dense data.

11 Barnes & Noble bookstores in New York: 13,495 copies of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone were sold at 9 a.m. and 9,534 copies at 10 a.m...... , a total of 76,857 copies were sold on the first day.

10 Barnes & Noble bookstores in Los Angeles: 11,858 copies of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone were sold at 9 a.m. and 8,624 copies at 10 a.m...... , a total of 68,296 copies were sold on the first day.

8 Barnes & Noble bookstores in Philadelphia: 8,092 copies of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone were sold at 9 a.m. and 6,239 copies at 10 a.m...... , with a total of 53,158 copies sold on the first day.

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A total of 100 Barnes & Noble bookstores in the United States have sold Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, with a total of about 430,000 copies sold.

Among them, Xu Qing distributed pamphlets in 61 Barnes & Noble bookstores in 10 major cities in the United States, selling about 370,000 copies.

There are also 39 Barnes & Noble bookstores in small and medium-sized cities in the United States, selling about 60,000 copies.

Sales were highest between 9 and 11 a.m., followed by 7 to 10 p.m., and lowest at other times.

Xu Qing looked at the sales data very seriously, and after more than 10 minutes, Xu Qing put down the document with a relieved expression on his face.

The sales of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" surprised Xu Qing, who originally predicted that it would sell more than 200,000 copies on the first day.

The first-day sales of 430,000 copies cannot be compared to the first-day sales of more than 8 million copies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

But these 430,000 copies were completed without any accumulation of fame, which is not easy.

With 430,000 copies sold on the first day, sales in the first month are likely to exceed 6 million copies, so it's no wonder that Barnes & Noble has implemented the conditions ahead of schedule.

Xu Qing turned his head and said to Yang Jin, who was excited next to him:

"The publishing house is doing a good job, and when the expatriate staff comes back, I will hold a celebration party for everyone, and each employee will add a bonus of $1,000, and you will add a bonus of $10,000. ”

"Thank you to the general manager. Yang Jin looked happy.

"It's nothing, it's time to get off work. Xu Qing looked at his watch and said.

Yang Jin happily left Xu Qing's office, and after a while, Xu Qing left the office with the sales documents and Carlyle, and returned to the villa in a happy mood.

At this time, Xu Qing didn't expect that there would be a "surprise" waiting for him tomorrow.