Li Fan was accompanied by the editor-in-chief of Giessen Publishing House to the United Book City.

At this time, the entire floor of the 7th floor was closed, and a sign at the top of the staircase said "Non-staff are not allowed to enter".

Everyone walked up the stairs to the 7th floor, but saw that most of the entire floor had been emptied.

The stage has been set up, and some of the staff are moving chairs, some are debugging microphones, and some are putting up posters...... The employees on the entire floor were busy and orderly, and when everyone saw Li Fan appearing, they said:

"Mr. Li, I wish you a great sale of your new book!"

"Mr. Li, you are so good, the first time I heard that the new book has not yet been sold, and the pre-sale has reached more than 800,000 copies!"

"That's right, the sale will start on time at 8 o'clock tomorrow, and you will be directly a member of the top 10 physical books of this year!"

Indeed, after two months of pre-sale, the cumulative pre-sale of "New Evidence Collection" has reached 890,000 copies in major bookstores, online bookstores and Giessen Publishing House.

What is the concept of 890,000 books?

In today's declining and even marginalized history of paper books, if many physical book writers sell 200,000 copies of a single book in a year, then the book sales are very phenomenal, and if they can reach 300,000 copies, it is a very awesome existence.

The world is developing too fast, going back more than 10 years, when physical books were still very marketable, and even the Internet at that time was pirated into books, and then many students hid in the corner of the classroom with the "big book" with the thickness of the Xinhua dictionary to secretly flip through it.

It was still an era of paper books.

In the blink of an eye, 2018, only 10 years later, the world has completely changed!

All kinds of genius idol writers who called for wind and rain back then, now some go to make movies, some engage in investment, but no one writes books anymore, and they don't even have the mood to sell their feelings.

In the Huaguo book market, "People's Literature Publishing House" conducts an ultimate statistics on physical book sales every year, and on the official website, only four books have exceeded one million annual sales this year.

The best-selling book of the year is called "Falling to Ashes", a very awesome science fiction work, a divine book that foreign presidents have "urged", of course, this is not an Internet work, it is purely a work in the ranks of literary masterpieces.

The book was released to the public at the end of 2017 and won an international award in 2018.

Is it worthy of the book's sales? 1.88 million copies in China. (The English version sold 1.15 million copies internationally.) ）

The second place is "Our Family", which sells 1.2 million copies a year.

Third place: "Rainbow", a foreign hit work, with an annual sales of 1.1 million copies, has been praised countless times as soon as it was released.

Fourth place: "Golden Age", with annual sales of 1.03 million copies.

The fifth place has an annual sales volume of only 350,000 copies, and the sixth place has 300,000 copies......

(Note: Textbooks and other special books are not included in the statistics.) ）

The phenomenon of book sales falling off a cliff illustrates a lot of problems and shows the bleakness of the publishing industry.

Li Fan's "Collection of New Evidence-based Works" has not yet been sold, and it has been booked in advance to be the fifth place in the top 10 book sales this year, and there is no one left.

The editor-in-chief said: "Now basically all the media have arrived in our Spring City, and tomorrow our Spring City will be on sale, and we will definitely get off to a good start!"

"How much stock do we have now?" asked Li Fan.

The female assistant said: "We have printed 1.5 million copies for the first time, and there are 600,000 copies in addition to the pre-sale, please rest assured, the supply of goods is sufficient across the country!"

After understanding the detailed process and talking about some details, Li Fan and others came to a big man, Wang Han, a famous host in China.

Wang Han had already flown to Spring City, and after landing, he called Li Fan, saying that he was rushing to the city.

The place where the two men met was downstairs in the United Book City.

Through the window, Li Fan saw a middle-aged man wearing gold wire retro glasses and a long down jacket, who walked quickly towards the United Book City with his neck bent.

"Brother Han, go upstairs. ”

Wang Han trembled and said: "This northeast is too cold, dry and cold!"

"Brother Han, go upstairs and warm up, come with me. ”

Wang Han followed Li Fan to the 7th floor of the United Book City, and after greeting with the leaders of Jisen Publishing House and the United Book City, he looked at the entire floor and exclaimed: "What a big scale!"

There is a large space for the media booth alone, and posters posted around the walls are filled with eye-catching slogans such as "Who else has sold 890,000 copies in total?" and "Idols who can't write articles are not called real idols."

This slogan is a bit out of the box, and it is very inconsistent with the content of the book.

Li Fan was also a little embarrassed when he saw these posters, he said: "Laughing, everyone is really exalting me." ”

From the perspective of historical development, it is normal for the scale to be several times larger. ”

After chatting for a while, Wang Han said that he wanted to go back to the hotel to rest, and he was a little tired.

How could Li Fan let him go to the hotel? He was the host!

"Brother Han, you can go home with me, just don't dislike my family for being too small and shabby. ”

"Is there a place for me to stay at home?"

"Yes, let's go home!"

Yes, there is, three bedrooms and one living room, squeeze it, Wang Han has a room, Xiaofei and Jelly have a room, parents have a room, and sleep on the sofa by yourself, isn't this appropriate!

When the two returned home, they found another wave of people in the living room.

This time it's not a leader, it's all Li Fan's classmates. After everyone knew the news that Li Fan had returned home, they came in groups to cheer him in advance, but the classmates saw that Wang Han had come to the door and it was inconvenient to disturb them, so they all left after chatting with Li Fan for a while.

"Li Fan, the new book is a big seller!"

"If you don't sell it to TOP1, you want to wear women's clothes for us, do you hear!"

"Come on, the reputation of our entire Nineteenth Middle School depends on you!"

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After sending off his classmates, Li Fan took the door to the room, and he found that Wang Han was sweating.

"Eh, it's too hot in your room. ”

"That's Brother Han, you wear a lot, you take off your cotton pants and wear single pants. For otaku, the winter in Spring City is more comfortable than summer, and they don't go out anyway, it's just that there is no fresh air!"

When Wang Han took off his thick cotton pants and re-entered the living room, he said suspiciously, "Where is your sister?"

Li Fan also asked, "Yes, where did my sister go?"

"I went to the teacher's house, your father sent it. ”

Li Fan was helpless, "You forced her to study again." ”

"It's her own going, take the initiative!"

Li Fan said: "Don't tease me, Mom, don't force Jelly to learn this and there, it's not something she should bear at her age." ”

"Other people's children are learning, but can our children not learn, so aren't they lagging behind? Aren't they losing at the starting line?"

Li Fan shook his head: "The starting line? What is the starting line in life? Who has set the starting line, which is all hyped up by educational institutions." Our Huaguo education is too deformed, Brother Han, are you right?"

Wang Han said: "We all know that education is deformed, but this is the national situation, there is no way." ”

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The family is chatting, and the whole region of China is already busy.

890,000 copies of the new book were ordered, and when the major online stores received the goods in the past two days, they packed them one after another and prepared to be mailed.

As soon as the bookstores closed, they immediately placed the books in the most visible position in turn, and placed the finished billboards outside the door, ready to go on sale at 8 o'clock in the morning.

Especially in the Spring City United Book City, as soon as the book city closes at night, the electronic billboard will continue to broadcast the detailed information and precautions of tomorrow morning's new book signing.

Located in the heart of the city centre, the Union Book City is the largest book city in the province of Giessen.

Citizens who walk in the business district stop by to watch and talk to each other.

Strange to say, there are basically no well-known writers in the province of Giessen, and there have been none in recent decades. Not to mention physical book writers, even online authors, it is not common in Giessen.

So it is conceivable that Spring City has popped up a writer who ranks in the top 10 sales just by pre-sale, and the popularity of this topic, besides, he is a local, and besides, this person is still Li Fan.

"I can't imagine that our Spring City can produce great writers!"

"O light of the city, absolute light of the city!"

"I heard that tomorrow Jisen Satellite TV, Urban Channel, Spring City Channel 1, 2 and so on will come to the scene to report. ”

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"Li Fan Bunker! Which of you pre-ordered?"

"I didn't pre-order, I don't understand, I bought it. ”

"Can she read it?"

"! If she can understand it, she can choose me as her boyfriend?

……

"Will you buy it tomorrow?"

"Buy it, I won't read it, buy it for my son!" Put the book there, tell him that this is his goal in life, and if he doesn't study, he will cut him!"

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The night is getting deeper.

Outside the gate of the United Book City, pedestrians gradually became scarce, and when the shops closed, the lights had fallen, and the spring city was good.

Outside the gate of the United Book City, four students suddenly came, all of them were about 15 years old, three girls and one boy.

"It's early!"

"I'll just say, which stupid fork will come to line up in the middle of the night, just for the first book in the country? I said you still don't listen!"

"Shall we go back to school now?"

"The head teacher knows that you can't clean us up, let's go, go to the Internet café for a while. ”

These four students are also really enthusiastic, this winter is bitterly cold, and they have to come to line up to grab the first book.

After the four students left, in the ATM hall next to the United Book City, a white and tender face was revealed, and the girl pouted: "You are the stupid fork!"

The girl thought for a moment, then immediately took out the banknote from her backpack and wrote a line on it: The head of the line has been occupied, others have avoided it, if you have any doubts, please enter the ATM on the left side to consult!

The girl found a brick, pressed the blank paper at the entrance of the United Book City, and then sneezed into the ATM hall again.

The fanaticism of a few fans is really amazing. It's not much in summer, but it's winter!

The normal time for the United Book City to open in the morning is 8 o'clock, but because of Li Fan's new book signing, the doors officially opened at 6 o'clock in the morning on Christmas Day.

In fact, for the employees, at such an important time, they were required to have everyone arrive at 5 o'clock in the morning. The security company will enter the United Book City at half past five.

But it wasn't them who came first, and at half past four, a couple came to the door.

"Look, husband!" the woman said, pointing to the stone at the door.

"Damn, and this kind of operation?"

The two of them glanced at the girl sitting in the corner of the ATM hall with her head buried in her knees, and were speechless for a while.

"Why don't we take a place too?"

"I think so!"

So, a second brick pressed against the doorway, and there were two more people in the ATM.

After another 10 minutes, a big man came, and the big man looked at these two "Zhenshan stones", and then kicked them away, and the two notices floated away with the wind.

Before 5 o'clock, there were only five or six people queuing, but after 5 o'clock, the queue quickly increased, and by less than 6 o'clock, the long queue had already lined up directly from the gate of the United Book City to the end of Anda Road.

The security personnel were all in place, and the traffic department mobilized traffic police comrades to sit at various nearby intersections.

Reporters from various channels and frequencies under the Giessen Radio and Television Bureau came one after another.

Jisen Satellite TV's "Morning News" location host: "Hello everyone, Li Fan, a famous young scholar in our province, the high-profile new book "New Examination of Evidence Collection" will hold a new book launch at 7 o'clock, and a new book signing will be held at 7:50.

At this time, everyone can see through the camera that the team has reached the end of Anda Road......"

The host of the location of the urban channel's "News Knows Early": "The cold wind is bone-chilling, and it still can't stop the fanaticism of fans, Li Fan's new book pre-sale broke the historical record, can he create another miracle, can he set a sales record on the first day of the release of the new book?" Today, we are waiting together!"

"We are the Voice of Traffic radio station...... The number of people in line is still increasing, increasing rapidly! Increasing violently! Increasing endlessly!"

"The queue has started to turn! from a single row to a double row...... It's gone from two rows to three rows!"

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"Hello everyone, this is Gongsu Satellite TV's "Morning News", where I am now is Xinhua Bookstore in our province, today is the day when Li Fan's new book is on sale, you can see, although there is still more than an hour before the sale, but the enthusiastic fans have already discharged a huge long queue. ”

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"This is Liaoyuan Satellite TV ......"

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"Heijiang Satellite TV brings you live reporting ......"

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The new book was launched, fans in various regions got up early in the morning to line up, and various media followed up, and at Li Fan's house, everyone got up at about half past four, but they all tiptoed, for fear of disturbing the rest of the only protagonist today.

Li Fan was tossed and broken this night, but no one bothered him, but he couldn't sleep by himself.

He was not a saint, he could not be honored and disgraced, and when he reached a milestone day in his life, he lost sleep. It wasn't until 3 a.m. that he finally fell asleep.

In the living room, the hands of the quartz clock pointed to 5 o'clock, and Li Fan was instantly woken up by the sound of firecrackers.

He sat up and walked to the balcony to open the curtains, only to see the long firecrackers on the ground crackling.

Dad, Mom, Jelly, Wang Han and others, as well as the residents in the community, were all standing outside, covering their ears and smiling.

The sound of firecrackers has not stopped, and Dad has lit a box of flowers, which will shine as bright as day in the early morning, which is still in a dark state.

Jelly suddenly took out a cigarette from his father's fingers, and then quickly ran to another box of flowers, making a gesture to light it, but was stopped by Zhang Xiaofei and carried away: "The little cowardice is not small!"

Mama Li saw that the curtain was opened, so she said, "Xiaofan, pack up, the publishing house's car has come." ”

"Uh-huh!"

The curtains were drawn again, Li Fan hurriedly washed, he had just brushed his teeth, and the sound of firecrackers outside stopped.

10 seconds...... 20 seconds ...... 1 minute later, Li Fan rinsed his mouth while summing up: Why is there no movement? This is not like the momentum of 8888 yuan firecrackers, at most 888!

Li's mother suddenly returned home, "Xiaofan, let's go to United Book City for breakfast, and the staff has arranged it." ”

"Well, Mom, I have something to ask!"

Say. ”

"Don't you say 8,888 yuan of fireworks? What about your promise, what about your bicycle?"

"I'll just say that, it means, we can't learn from Mengmeng's extravagance and waste!"

"Hehe, it turns out that you are always happy and happy?" Li Fan was powerless to complain.

Mother Li said: "Isn't that what I said?"

"Yes, really, it's up to you anyway!"

Li Fan just said this, only to hear the firecrackers rumbling not far from the window, and the fireworks soaring into the sky.

Someone outside the window said: "13 old Dong put it, let me celebrate for you." ”

"Oh!" Li Fanxin said: Mom, look at people!

Immediately afterwards, fireworks burst in the air from time to time in the community, firecrackers crackled, and alarms of various cars that were alarmed......

At half past five, three cars of the Jisen Publishing House drove out of the community, followed by a long line of cars, and I don't know that there were several official cars of TV stations, a few cars rented by Yuji, and several private cars of residents of the community to join in the fun.

Li Fan, in Chuncheng and in his hometown, has received the particularly strong and cordial love of Chuncheng people.