With publicity and word-of-mouth, sales are naturally not a problem, and many science fiction fans are promoting "I, Robot" on the Internet and in their usual group groups. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

For these more homely geeks, a good hard science fiction novel is hard to come by, and they don't have any grievances with the novel because of who the author is.

After winning more than 300,000 copies on the first day of sales in the world, Lin Han fully realized the difference between Chinese and foreign science fiction soils, and he was also in the limelight in the domestic science fiction industry, but his sales and audience were relatively limited.

But abroad, he is just a newcomer who has no name at all, and if a newcomer's work can sell so many copies, I am afraid that the person in charge of Random House will regret it, and a global bestseller will slip out of their hands like this.

The physical book publishing market in April was not calm at all, with the return of the old kings, the eagerness of new writers, and the spoiler Lin Han eyeing the game.

American author Brad Saul also took the opportunity of the London Book Fair to release his new book "Foreign Agent" around the world, and the thriller novelist who once worked for the US Department of Homeland Security was very popular with American readers, and sales continued to rise. The book is the latest addition to his best-selling "Scott Harvey" series and is considered one of the best books of the month by the Prediction Agency.

Sandra Brown, winner of the International Thriller Novelist Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award for American Romance Novelists, also released her new book "Friction" earlier this month, in which she combines her best two genres to create suspenseful romance novels. Previously, it had sold 310,000 copies in the U.S. market and landed on the major charts.

There are so many writers around the world, and there are a lot of books published at the same time, the magic novel "The Age of Thorn Birds" has caused a whirlwind among teenagers, and the vampire novel "Luminous City", the fantasy novel "Dora's Starry Sky", and the science fiction novel "Upside Down Universe" have all come with great momentum, and everyone has made efforts to start sprinting for the top of the sales list.

The New York Times Bestseller List is one of the most representative bestseller lists in the United States, and the New York Times Investigative Research Division is responsible for the New York Times Investigative List, which is based on weekly sales reports from hundreds of independent book retailers, domestic and local chains, online and multimedia entertainment retailers, universities, supermarkets, discount stores and newsstands in the United States.

This list is almost the most important reference guide for Americans to buy books, and if they can enter this list, subsequent sales will not be a problem at all.

Many books are advertised with something like "the top book on the New York Times best-selling list", "50 weeks on the list" or "on the list in a certain month", "editor's choice" or something.

"I, Robot" used to be sold electronically on Amazon and will not be included in this list. Now he can finally join this battlefield and fight with others with real guns.

However, Lin Han also has a disadvantage, because although this ranking is world-famous, even if China will update the report every week, but the sales of people are counted in the United States, not the world.

In other words, only the United States part of his previous sales of more than 300,000 copies will be recorded, which is also a big disadvantage.

The publishing war is on the verge of breaking out! Lin Han, who was far away in Paris, seemed to feel the smoke of the battlefield, because Alex would send the results to his mailbox almost every few hours.

"Foreign Agent" took the lead in attacking, this novel is very popular, written by an American writer CIA agent novel, with the author's fans and the reputation of the previous work, he broke out more than 100,000 sales in the first three days of sales, and at the same time, he also launched a signing activity in New York and other big cities to fully stimulate sales.

Such a strong start is expected, although the king is old, but the appeal is not bad at all, readers are still very buying, and many people seem to feel that there is not much suspense in this book landing at the top of the list.

However, the youth chicken soup novel "Hold Me Tight" has become a dark horse, online and offline sales are very hot, with a large group of women as support, and the domineering president is not only liked by Chinese girls, but also by American hot girls. The first few days were tepid, but the back was trying to catch up, and it seemed that there was a desire to compete for the championship.

Last week's top seller was To Kill a Mockingbird, the sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird, Set Up the Watchman, which has been in the spotlight for five consecutive weeks since its official release last month, and this week's sales are also very gratifying.

With the Hollywood movie of the same name, the popular novel "Gray" has risen amazingly, and it was still hanging out of the top 100 in the first few months, and it was promoted to second place last week. Considering that the movie is being released worldwide, as long as a very small number of viewers convert to readers, the hope of winning the championship is relatively high.

Among so many seeded players, "I, Robot" obviously has little chance of winning, and many critics believe that the book has already consumed too much popularity in advance in the Amazon digital version, and the commercial value is not high.

Although it is a science fiction masterpiece, considering that the author does not have any fame, the prediction agency just treats it as a substitute.

Against this backdrop, this week's New York Times bestseller list is quietly on everyone's radar.

The first place is undoubtedly Ms. Harper-Lee, who is in her eighties, but this is her second book, "To Kill a Mockingbird", which tells the story of "To Kill a Mockingbird" 20 years after the events of "To Kill a Mockingbird".

The previous work became so famous, selling more than 40 million copies worldwide, and the film adaptation also made Gregory Peck an Oscar.

This sequel is very attractive, and it makes sense that the streak is a succession.

But the second place was unexpectedly occupied by the vampire novel "Luminous City", which is only the author's debut novel, which soared in the first week of release, sold more than one million copies in the United States, and surpassed countless famous authors, and the plot of Mary Sue has made teenagers crazy.

This week is destined to be an extraordinary week, and the third place on the bestseller list is "I, Robot"!

This science fiction novel has quietly reached the third place on the weekly list, and no one could have imagined that it would be this sales, and it even surpassed the old king.

"Foreign Agent", which was originally pinned on high hopes, actually failed miserably to "I, Robot"!

This makes it very difficult for readers to accept this reality, even if you can't parachute the championship, and lose to a foreigner at home, it's almost a shame.

But when Lin Han learned the news, he was very surprised, he clearly remembered that he only sold 70,000 or 80,000 copies on the first day in the United States, what happened later to make "I, Robot" achieve a perfect counterattack?

In fact, not only Lin Han, but also Penguin Publishing Group, the staff of the New York Times, and the rest of the readers who follow the bestseller list are very curious, what happened!?