On Monday, May 3rd, the start of the weekly workday, Parker, who had just had a wonderful weekend, was still in a state of mind when he was at work.

Usually at this time, he would scan through the novels serialized in the newspaper to relieve his laziness, and he held the New York Times, the must-read newspaper every day.

The New York Times has detailed and authoritative reports on various fields such as economics, current affairs, sports, entertainment, etc.

But for Parker, he has no interest in reports on economic developments, politicians' speeches, celebrity scandals and the like, preferring novels serialized in the New York Times.

The quality of the novels serialized in The New York Times has always been very high because The New York Times has a group of professional book reviewers.

Their eye is unrivaled, and they can find novels of the highest quality.

Their book reviews are humorous and witty, and they always write a humorous book review about the strengths and weaknesses of the novel.

The New York Times bestseller list, the Saturday Book Review section, which has a huge influence throughout the United States, was produced by this group of book reviewers.

So Parker believes in the vision of this group of book critics, and he loves to read the book reviews they write, and the New York Times never disappoints him.

Parker flipped through the serialized section of the New York Times and watched the novels he had been watching with relish.

The newspaper had limited space, and Parker quickly finished reading the novel, which was only a few thousand words, and after reading it, his eyes searched the serialization section of the novel.

The New York Times's novel serialization section usually serializes three novels at the same time, except for the novel that Parker finished reading, the other two novels Parker is not very interested in, and it is a situation where you can watch or not.

If he was busy with work, he probably wouldn't read the other two novels, and if he wasn't busy with work, he would just take a look, and today he wasn't busy with work, and he wanted to read the other two novels.

Hey, Parker found that the serialization of another novel had been replaced by a new novel, and he remembered that the novel had not yet reached the end, so why did it stop serializing?

These thoughts only flashed through Parker's mind for a moment, and then he was forgotten.

He had subscribed to The New York Times for more than 10 years and read countless novels in newspapers, and a novel that had abruptly stopped serializing could not distract him.

Parker's eyes looked at the new serialized novel, and his expression was very excited, and he was very excited whenever there was a new serialized novel.

Because of the professionalism of The New York Times, most of the new serialized novels met his reading tastes and allowed him to have a great time.

The title of the new serialized novel reads "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", which is a magical novel?

Sure enough, the genre of fiction is written in fantasy novels, and what he likes is detective, adventure, and horror novels, and magical novels don't quite fit his reading taste.

The author writes Xu Qing, and the name is very strange, not like an American name, but more like an Asian name.

He rarely saw novels written by Asian-American authors in The New York Times, which piqued his interest.

The title of the first chapter of the text: The Surviving Boys.

Seeing this title, Parker frowned slightly, could it be that this new serialized novel is written for children?

Parker then looked at the content of the text, the Doesley family, the Potter family, and the relatives conflicted, what kind of mess was written.

Parker was a little angry that the New York Times serialized such a novel, and he wanted to call to complain.

But it took him more than 30 minutes to read the novel, and when it was time to work, Parker put down the newspaper and gave up the idea of calling to complain.

On this day, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the HSD Post, and the San Francisco Chronicle, four newspapers with great influence in the United States, serialized a novel called "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone".

Many people were as angry as Parker after reading "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", and some even called to complain, threatening to unsubscribe from the newspaper if the novel was serialized again.

After reading it, some people think that "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" is a good novel, and they have the idea of continuing to read it.

Xu Qing received feedback from readers from these newspapers in the evening, and most of the feedback was not very good, but he was in a relaxed mood because the feedback results were as he expected.

The beginning of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" is not very good, and in the previous life, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" was rejected by many publishers for many reasons, one of which is that the beginning is not good.

Xu Qing thought about whether to change the beginning, but he was worried that after changing it, it would cause unpredictable consequences, so he didn't change the beginning.

Anyway, if you don't change the beginning, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" has sold more than 150 million copies.

Although Xu Qing was in a relaxed mood, he had been tracking the serialization of these newspapers, and he was going to serialize the first 60,000 words of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" in these newspapers.

Newspaper serialization is a very important part of the publicity plan, and Xu Qing paid a lot of money to let these newspapers serialize "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", and there is no room for error.

$600,000, with the help of Carney Group, does not charge for the manuscript of the serialization of the novel, which makes Xu Qing feel a little painful when he thinks about it.

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On Saturday, May 8, many people gathered their relatives and friends to go shopping and reward their hard work after five days of busy work.

On this day, people go shopping in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Houston, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Detroit, Boston, and Dallas, which are the top 10 cities in the United States.

They saw a group of strangely dressed people handing out pamphlets in the bustling center.

The strangely dressed group wore black round-rimmed glasses, black peaked hats, dressed in similar costumes to the bachelor's gown, and held a broomstick.

Shoppers took the booklet from the crowd, with Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone on the cover, written by Xu Qing, and released on June 1 at Barnes & Noble.

When I opened the cover, I saw the text of the novel, which was very small, probably more than 20,000 words.

Some shoppers look at the cover and throw away the booklet, while others look at the first page, or a few pages of the text, and throw away the booklet.

There are also some people who read all the text content, and after reading it, they excitedly asked this group of strangely dressed people, is there any text content, they want to see it.

The strangely dressed man flipped through the back pages of the booklet and told them that they had the addresses of the 100 Barnes & Noble bookstores in the United States, and that they could go to them on June 1 to buy Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

The men were answered disappointed and left, but none of them threw away the pamphlet, but held it tightly.