On June 1, at 7 o'clock in the morning, Xu Qing finished washing.

At half past seven, Xu Qing finished breakfast.

At 8 o'clock, Xu Qing arrived at Carney Media.

All of CarneyMedia's managers and employees who have not traveled have come to the company, and they are busy.

In particular, the staff of the publishing house are eager to divide one person into several to use it.

More of Carney's staff are scattered throughout the United States.

Some are at Barnes & Noble, and they need to cooperate with the staff at Barnes & Noble to make the first day of sales.

In addition, it is necessary to supervise the sales data, find out the problems in the sales in a timely manner, and report them to Carney Media.

At Laimer, they inspect the quality of the books and distribute them to Barnes & Noble bookstores throughout the United States.

1.5 million books have been sent to Barnes & Noble and 500,000 have not been distributed.

They also urged Laimer to continue printing as many books as possible, at least 4 million copies.

Yesterday, Xu Qing read the final feedback on the publicity effect, and changed the original plan of printing 500,000 copies of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" in June to more than 4 million copies in June.

The advance payment for the 4 million copies required more than $1 million, and Xu Qing took out more than $1 million of the $2 million compensation originally given to Barnes & Noble as the advance payment.

Previously, Xu Qing used Carney Media, villas, cars, and personal credit to borrow a total of $5 million.

Coupled with Xu Qing's deposit of more than $300,000 and the advertising money that Carney Newspaper just received some time ago, Xu Qing raised a total of more than $6 million.

The use of the more than $6 million was more than $500,000 for the initial 2 million copies of the Laimer Company, $2 million in compensation for Barnes & Noble, more than $100,000 for public relations, $3 million for publicity, and more than $400,000 for other miscellaneous items.

Now Xu Qing doesn't want to give himself a way out, and takes out most of the compensation fee originally given to Barnes & Noble as an advance payment for Laimer Bookstore, Xu Qing has absolute confidence in "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone".

Xu Qing believes that "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" will sell more than 5 million copies in the first month, compared with 2 million copies previously printed and now 4 million copies printed in June.

Xu Qing prepared a total of 6 million copies of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" to cope with the sales in the first month.

If "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" is out of stock because of the insufficient number of prints, it will be regretted.

"Son, are you in Carney Media?" Xu Qing picked up the phone and heard his mother's voice.

"Yes, Mom, I'm at Carney Media. Xu Qing replied.

"Okay, your dad and I are here now. ”

"No, I can do it myself for the first day of release of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. ”

"Are you sure?"

"Mom, I can do a good job in book printing, sales channels, and publicity channels, not to mention the sale, you should believe in my ability. ”

"Okay, then your dad and I won't go, if you have any questions, you have to ask us for help in time, you know, don't be reckless. ”

"If you have a problem, I will definitely ask you for help in time. ”

Xu Qing put down the phone, his heart warmed slightly, and after a few minutes, another call came.

"Xu Qing, do you want me to help, I just wasn't busy today. ”

"No, Mr. Simmons, I'll do it myself, and your printing of 4 million books as soon as possible will be the greatest help to me. Xu Qing said with a smile.

The call was made by Simmons, the general manager of the Laimer Company, and his grandfather was very kind to him.

Yesterday, when Xu Qing told him that he wanted to print 4 million books, he immediately agreed.

And Xu Qing feels that Simmons doesn't treat him as a customer, but more like a nephew.

Now Simmons called again and asked if he wanted to help, and if Xu Qing agreed to Simmons' help, many things would be very simple, because Simmons has a lot of energy in the American book industry.

Xu Qing still refused Simmons' help, he spent so much effort on "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", and when it came to the official release, he wanted to reveal the results in person.

"I will definitely print 4 million books as soon as possible, you have brought me tens of millions of dollars in orders, and you are already a big customer of Laimer, and Laimer will complete your request as soon as possible." ”

"Then I would like to thank Mr. Simmons in advance. ”

"It should be me thank you for giving me such a big order, and you can call me at any time if you have any questions. ”

Xu Qing held the phone and thought about it, he was very curious about what his grandfather's kindness to Simmons was, could it be a life-saving grace?

And why he didn't have an impression of Simmons before, it stands to reason that he and Simmons both live in San Francisco, and he should have met Simmons.

Xu Qing thought for a while and didn't understand, he didn't want to, he would know what was going on when he had the opportunity to ask Grandpa and Simmons in the future.

The phone rang again, Xu Qing picked up the phone and put it to his ear, and a vicissitudes of life sounded:

"Ah Qing, are you nervous?"

"Grandpa, I'm in a very relaxed mood now, so relaxed that I don't know how to write the word nervous. ”

Xu Qing grinned and said that the call was from his grandfather, and he didn't expect the old man to call him.

"You kid, how did you talk to grandpa. Grandpa laughed and scolded on the other side of the phone.

"I was wrong, Grandpa has a lot of them, so let me go. ”

"It seems that you are indeed very relaxed, then grandpa will hang up the phone, and I will go to feed the cows. ”

"Grandpa, pay attention to your body, leave things like feeding the cows to the cowboys, you and grandma can take a walk, read the newspaper, and chat. ”

"I can still move. ”

"No, I ......"

"Don't be verbose, remember, don't panic, with us, I'm going to feed the cattle and hang up the phone." ”

Before Xu Qing finished speaking, he was interrupted by his grandfather, and then hung up the phone.

Xu Qing rubbed her brows helplessly, grandpa and grandma lived on a farm owned by the Carney Group in Montana, and their daily lives were taken care of.

But the grandfather went to feed the livestock in person every day, and Xu Qing and his parents persuaded him many times to hand over the feeding work to the cowboys, but the grandfather did not listen, thinking that he could still move.

Grandpa rarely called Xu Qing, but he cared about Xu Qing no less than his parents.

Yesterday, Xu Qing called his grandfather and asked him to help supervise the sales data of Barnes & Noble's bookstore, and he agreed without hesitation.

Xu Qing cleaned up his emotions and looked at his watch, there were still 10 minutes until 9 o'clock.

There are a total of 6 time zones in the United States, including 4 time zones in the United States, and the first day of sales of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is only available in the United States.

According to the calculation of the 4 time zones in the United States, Xu Qing's California time is the latest.

In other words, except for the western region of the United States in this part of California, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" has been released in other regions.

At 9 o'clock in 10 minutes, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" will also be released in the western region of California.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is officially on sale in the United States!