Chapter 297: Dark Forest Pre-sale and Sample
The sewage that was splashed on Lin Han's body was quickly cleaned up, and most people knew that he was donating books to colleges and universities.
"Have you ever thought about expanding this university plan, such as diversifying the types of books and expanding the scope of the school?"
"So what do you mean, I don't understand. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info" Lin Han looked at his girlfriend suspiciously, she was holding a few statistics and reading them non-stop.
Chen Jiaxuan rarely didn't go to work early today, she sat on the sofa and said, "Do you want to pass on your story to more people, or do you want to expand the reserve force of science fiction readers, or I can help you combine the two into one." ”
After this incident, Chen Jiaxuan thought that Lin Han's small fight actually played an important role, if their studio sent a draft to clarify, it would definitely take a long time and take slow effect.
Students are the main consumer force and potential stocks now, and it is better to firmly grasp the group of students than anything else, and the rest of the people have more or less seen the ability of this group, but Lin Han, as the first person to eat crabs, has a particularly obvious advantage.
Lin Han took a sip of the coffee cup, and he asked suspiciously, "What do you want to do?"
"How about setting up a Lin Han Reading Foundation? Don't donate money, just donate books and magazines or something, so that it is in line with your identity. When the time comes, we can provide more authors to readers, so that they can have more choices, and they can dismiss other writers, of course, or yours. ”
The more Chen Jiaxuan spoke, the more excited she became, she uncovered the small blanket covering her knees, stood up and walked to Lin Han's side and continued: "The other thing is to promote this project to the world, so that the school science fiction associations of other countries can also apply successfully, and then I will give them books in the corresponding language." ”
The feasibility of this plan is very high, Lin Han's eyes lit up when he heard it, and he was indeed a professional. He is not afraid to spend money, anyway, he earns so much every year, and if he can use the money to promote these science fiction novels on the earth, it will be a great success for him!
Let the novels of the earth blossom everywhere in this world, and Lin Han's wish seems to be fulfilled soon.
"It's just a small request, which is not to make this foundation commercial, I want it to be a little more low-key and pure. ”
The reason why so many schools' student unions, science fiction associations, libraries, and official micro-accounts have come forward to help Lin Han is because he never thought of anything in return, just simply giving the book to his readers, nothing more stringent than that.
"Of course, this is a must, this foundation will not do things with great fanfare, I want to get you a separate management of the foundation to come out. ”
"It's good for you to decide, I'll call Mosquito and Wang Hao and a few of them, but yesterday they helped me speak under pressure, so they were also scolded by boring netizens. ”
After Lin Han kissed Chen Jiaxuan's lips, he walked to the study with his mobile phone and coffee cup, and he called these friends who helped him speak one by one, and the cold text in the chat box could not fully express his gratitude.
Li Wenyuan said with a big grin: "What is there to thank for this, it's just a few words." Besides, I didn't do anything to help, and in the end you were on your own. ”
"You can't say that, you're a charcoal in the snow, much better than those guys who fell into the well. Lin Han said with relief, he also knew that he had limited friends, but he didn't expect that there would be more irrelevant people who hated him.
"Since you sincerely want to thank me, then hurry up and give me the document of "Death Eternal" to read in advance, I really can't bear it, I finally finished reading "Dark Forest", I want to see how you write later. "Li Wenyuan's requirements are really not high.
Lin Han thought about it in his mind, and he said: "No problem, today I will send you a full set of hardcover commemorative edition of "The Three-Body Problem", and it just so happens that the printing house will print out the sample of "Death Eternal" to see the effect." ”
When Li Wenyuan heard this, his eyes were about to pop out, "The full set is out so soon? Then what are you waiting for, I'll drive to you right now!"
He didn't want to wait for a moment, he couldn't wait to open an arbitrary door and rush over!
"Don't worry, I'll send it to you in the morning, so you can wait in peace. Lin Han couldn't help but laugh when he looked at the beautifully packaged books on the table.
The charm of the novel is enormous, and no one can resist the temptation of "The Three-Body Problem"!
After hanging up the phone, Lin Han took this set of books to the coffee table in the living room, he and Chen Jiaxuan got off the elevator together, and then separated in the garage and headed towards their destinations.
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"Ding Dong"
The doorbell rang happily, Lin Han came to visit Li Wenyuan's house for the first time, but he didn't expect this to be a garden-style building, which was particularly rare against the backdrop of the surrounding high-rise buildings.
A few seconds later, Li Wenyuan's excited face appeared in front of Lin Han, and the first sentence was: "Did you bring the book?"
In these days, books are more important than people.
"Brought, huh. ”
After Li Wenyuan couldn't put it down and held the hardcover version of "The Three-Body Problem" in his hand, he remembered that Lin Han was still here, "Come in and sit casually, Xiao Grape went to learn piano with her mother, and there is no one else at home." ”
"No, I'm here to be a courier, and then I made an appointment with Zhao Han and Mr. Zhao of the National People's Congress Publishing House, and met at 11 o'clock to discuss the listing of these two books. If you don't leave, I'll be late, so read it slowly and remember to write a professional book review!"
"Go get busy, I'm just going to read a book in peace. Li Wenyuan didn't keep any more, at this time, only "The Three-Body Problem" is the biggest!
Lin Han looked at the closed door in front of him with a smile, this person loves books to the core, and true friends don't count so much.
When he arrived at the tea house outside the publishing house, it was already eleven past two o'clock.
Too many cars will not only jam the traffic, but also find no parking space, Lin Han turned around the neighborhood for a while before successfully parking the car.
In winter, the temperature in Yanjing is very low, and people walking on the sidewalks are fully armed and wrap themselves tightly.
With the cold wind, the withered yellow ginkgo biloba leaves on the side of the road fell to the ground, the color was so bright yellow, and it made a noise when stepping on it, Lin Han pulled up his scarf to protect his face.
As soon as he entered the tea house, the familiar temperature reactivated his almost frozen facial muscles, and the heated room could enjoy the winter scenery outside.
"Mr. Zhao, I'm sorry, I'm a few minutes late, so I've kept you waiting. Lin Han hung his scarf and coat on the hanger on the side, and then he sat on the wooden chair.
"It's okay, I'm only a few minutes early, let's take a sip of tea to warm up." ”
The rising water vapor steamed in front of Lin Han's eyes, a cup of hot tea was served, and the cow chewed peony-like drinking method dispelled the cold in his body.
Lin Han didn't understand what kind of tea this was, the faint tea fragrance was very smooth, and it was much better than buying Master Kong's green tea jasmine tea.
"Mr. Zhao, what is the matter with the special coming to me today, didn't you say that this set of novels will be sold nationwide on New Year's Day?"
Now that something has been decided, what else is there to discuss?
However, Zhao Han grinned and said, "Now the news about your last two books has made many people itch, and many of them have asked our publishing house and printing house for the content of the novel." Some people are really hard to refuse, especially those Internet bigwigs, they are willing to spend money, and we also need to look at the pre-sale data to make the final printing basis. ”
"So what do you want to do?"
Lin Han asked concisely and clearly, he didn't want to participate in any activities recently anyway, he didn't even want to do anything on the first day of sale, and his celebration banquet with global sales of more than 10 million was not held, and other writers had to smash the ice dragon even with five million copies, and Lin Han was really lazy.
"Our solution is to open the pre-sale in advance and give them a sneak peek of the sample. ”
The so-called trial book is a booklet made by the publisher of about two or three chapters of the new book, as well as the story synopsis, the author's introduction, etc., and distributed it to ordinary readers free of charge through the distribution channels, so that the dead readers have an understanding of the content of the book, and then arouse their interest in reading and attract readers to buy.
In Europe and the United States, pre-reads have become one of the most popular ways to manipulate the advanced marketing of big bestsellers.
To put it simply, a book sample is like a movie trailer, which is a value-added service for bookstores and publishers, reflecting respect for readers and attracting readers to stimulate consumption.
The sample book is certainly free, but there are mixed reviews for this kind of publicity in China, with industry insiders seeing it as a risky propaganda tactic, while readers are worried that publishers will pass on the cost of the trial book to the book.
"The popularity of "Dark Forest" and "Death Eternal" no longer needs to release a limited trial version, right?" Lin Han felt that this was completely redundant, and there was no need to do such a thing.
Originally, "The Three-Body Problem" was very popular, coupled with the madness and reversal this time, the news reports were all about these news, and ordinary people knew that there was this novel, let alone the rest of the readers.
The release of the trial book is not for Lin Han's own fans, and it seems that there is no need for this at all.
Zhao Han didn't relax, he said: "After all, there is still a long time before the New Year's Day, and we must use something to attract the attention of readers and let them look forward to it." You don't need to do any publicity, the editors of our publishing house can get the sample book out and deduct it from the special marketing expenses. ”
Lin Han's eyes rolled, and he said: "Otherwise, it is said that lucky pre-sale readers are selected to release the trial book, but in fact, the complete novel is sent to them, this must be a surprise!"
"What if they reveal the content of the novel? Wouldn't it cause spoilers all over the Internet, which is not fun. ”
"Attach a small note to the book and tell them to try not to spoil it. Also, even if they spoiled it, it wouldn't make much of a difference, unless every page was photocopied. ”
"If you really should be in business, just listen to you and surprise your readers!"
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Three days later, the official Weibo of the National People's Congress Publishing House officially released the news: "In addition to the nickname, the last two parts of Lin Han's "Three-Body Problem" series, "Three-Body Problem 2: Dark Forest" and "Three-Body Problem 3: Death Eternal", have fully entered the stage of printing and distribution, and friends who like Mr. Lin's novels can pre-order through the following link, and they can also pre-order the complete works of "Three-Body Problem". At present, readers who participate in the pre-order will have the opportunity to draw free trial copies of the next two novels and grasp the wonderful content of the novels in advance! The number of trial books is limited, and we will meet you in the near future, please ensure that the pre-order address can be received, maybe luck will befall you!"
Life is like a year, Lin Han's readers only have this thought, they have been listening to the progress of the novel, from Lin Han began to tap the keyboard and start the pen, to the progress of the report he finished writing half of the report, and then the finished manuscript was delivered to the publishing house, and now the publishing house has finally printed and bound the goods, obviously it has only been more than a month, but it feels like several years have passed, and it is anxious to wait.
Now that the novel is finally online and pre-ordered, and those who pre-order with a deposit can also get a trial book, which is a big step ahead of others, so on several websites, the number of pre-orders for the complete works of "The Three-Body Problem 2: Dark Forest" began to soar.
The customer service of the official store has been so busy that it can't reply to so many questions, no one knows how to get the trial book, everything is randomly screened through big data, and the selected talents may get it, and the list will not be published on the Internet.
In an hour, the pre-sale of the complete episode of "Three-Body Problem", which cost as much as 81 yuan, reached 40,000 copies, and the pre-sale of "Three-Body Problem 2: Dark Forest" alone was even more terrifying, reaching 85,000 copies, and "Three-Body Problem 3: Death Eternal" also came to 60,000 copies!
It only took these time, and the pre-sale data began to rush towards the incomprehensible places, which simply made the industry people drop countless jaws, and the staff of the National People's Congress Publishing House predicted that the 24-hour figure was only 150,000 copies, and now half of it is completed in 1 hour!
Buy, buy, buy, first strike, and then suffer, I finally finished watching the first part of "The Three-Body Problem", but this story seems to have just begun, and they can't wait to see the rest of the content.
Originally, those who wronged Lin Han, those who still had a trace of shame in their hearts, passers-by who turned fans, and the most loyal readers, these different groups are all working together to sprint this pre-sale number to a higher point.
In 4 hours, the pre-sale volume reached 150,000 copies, meeting the publisher's forecast target.
In 7 hours, the pre-sale of "Dark Forest" reached 200,000 copies, setting a record for the highest pre-sale of a science fiction novel!
In 15 hours, the new complete episode of "The Three-Body Problem" has been pre-sold for more than 100,000 copies!
Can 24 hours break the record?
Lin Han is waiting, the publishing house is also waiting, and the media have already written the manuscript and started to wait, where can the aggressive "Three-Body Problem" go! )