Seeing that Govin was suddenly in a daze, Long Shao patted him on the shoulder, and then walked to the hall of the bookstore first.

From a distance, you can see that the "Towards the Future" series is placed on the most central bookshelf in the hall on the first floor, and not far from this bookshelf, there is a large low table, on which are stacked with twelve books. Whether in front of the bookshelves or at the low table, there are readers standing quietly reading.

These readers are of all ages and social levels, some are squatting, some are standing, some are sitting...... There was a kind of undistracted seriousness on everyone's faces.

Long Shao couldn't help but be a little happy when he saw such a scene.

Although all the shelves in the bookstore are full of people shopping for books and reading books, there are many more people in front of the shelves of the "Towards the Future" series than in other places.

Long Shao took out a pen and notebook from his pocket and began the scene investigation. As an old editor and a publisher for many years, going from the masses to the masses, paying attention to the opinions of readers and the number of markets has always been a small means of Long Shao's success, and it is his method that has allowed him to rise quickly in Joint Bookstore.

Govin slowly shuttled through the sea of books.

The 80s was the most real, extensive, and knowledge-hungry reading era on the land of China in decades, and the reading atmosphere of this era was almost the most crazy and pure in China's history.

In the sixties and seventies, there was an extreme poverty of domestic publications, and except for red books, it was almost impossible to buy Chinese and foreign classics or masterpieces, and the whole twenty years became a "vacuum period" of knowledge. In the 80s of the reform and opening up, the "spring of science" finally came, and the publishing industry also ushered in spring. Some ancient and modern Chinese and foreign good books began to be published one after another and entered the bookstore, at this time, the bookstore was simply an ocean of knowledge, and all kinds of Chinese and foreign famous books and classics were dazzling. It's dizzying and greatly stimulates the reading of people who are thirsty for knowledge**.

Visiting bookstores is many people's biggest hobby.

Whether it's "politics", "social science" or the most obscure "philosophy", there are people reading in front of all the bookshelves.

Govin browsed the backs of various books in front of the rows of bookshelves, and when he saw the books he was interested in, he stopped, leaned sideways, reached in from the crowd in front of the shelves, and took the books out and looked through them.

Some of the people around Govin finished reading the book in their hands. Put the book back on the shelf and pull out a new one; Some put the books back and paced to the other shelves; Some took the book and turned away and went to the counter to pay the bill; Others, like Gowen, have been standing there quietly, carefully looking at the books in their hands......

Time passed quietly in the slow motion of Govyn flipping through the pages of the book.

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Gowen was disturbed by Long Shao's excited screams, and then he learned a news from Long Shao that surprised him very much.

The Into the Future book series was sold out within three hours of hitting the shelves!

You must know that as the largest Xinhua bookstore in Beijing, the People's Publishing House has provided Wangfujing Bookstore with a full 3,000 sets of books to the future, a set of 12 books, and 3,000 sets of 36,000 books!

All sold out in three hours!

It's nothing short of a miracle!

Even if there is Gowen's "Walden" as a bluff. But the Journey to the Future series is not a very good book to read, and for most readers, it is still very obscure.

You think, a series of books is actually like an encyclopedia, there are philosophical books, economic books, literary books, economic books, science books, and history books.

Moreover, although the price of books at this time was not expensive, the price of nine cents per book also made many people sigh. Pick at most one or two of your favorite genres to buy.

This means that the first volume of the Journey to the Future series has sold at least 30,000 readers.

Such a situation is even more exaggerated than the hundreds of thousands of Redmi phones sold in a few seconds on Xiaomi's official website in later generations.

In later generations, the price of a Redmi mobile phone was one-fifth or sixth-of-the-average salary, but at that time, people did not worry about food or clothing. Food, clothing, housing and transportation are very rich. And now how much is an ordinary person's monthly salary, and at this time, people are just barely able to meet their basic material life!

Long Shao couldn't wait to rush back to the publishing house, and he wanted to pass on the good news to everyone in Sanlian Bookstore, especially the old leader Xiao Qian, who had made great efforts.

"Judging from the current situation, since the largest bookstores in Beijing are sold out so quickly, you can imagine what happens to other bookstores with small stock volumes!" Long Shao said incoherently. "Print! Be sure to reprint! No, mine hurry back and contact the printing house to start the second printing! ”

Saying that, Long Shao ignored Gewen, who was still shocked, and stumbled out of the bookstore all the way, not caring that his madness had already aroused public anger, leaving complaints all the way.

"It's so annoying!"

"This is the bookstore. It's not your home! ”

"This man is sick!"

"Please be quiet!"

"Such a big person, he doesn't know how to be polite!"

……

Govin was dumbfounded.

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In the following days, as Long Shao speculated, the Towards the Future series suddenly detonated the entire book market.

With the number of sales fed back from all over the country, as well as the word-of-mouth propaganda of the first batch of buyers, the Towards the Future series directly broke out of sales and broke a series of sales records.

Wangfujing Bookstore in Beijing, the Towards the Future series sold 36,000 copies within three hours of being on the shelves.

Shanghai's largest Xinhua bookstore, the Journey to the Future book series, was also sold out within four hours.

Shenzhen's largest private bookstore sold 11,000 sets of books in one day.

Bookstores in major cities such as Wuhan, Chongqing, and Xi'an, and the Towards the Future series were also sold out in less than a week.

In one week, the first printing of 200,000 copies of the Towards the Future series was sold out.

Shanxi Daily also published an interesting story about the book series on the future.

It is said that due to the hot sales of the Towards the Future series, when other bookstores are out of stock, Xinhua Bookstore, the largest bookstore on Jianshe Road in Taiyuan City, has restricted the purchase of this series of books, requiring each person to only buy one book in the series. Who knows, it's okay without this notice, with this notice. Outside the Xinhua Bookstore on Jianshe Road in Taiyuan, people began to line up at the door of the bookstore overnight, waiting for the morning to buy a series of books that go to the future. As a result, before the bookstore could open, the large glass inlaid on the door of the bookstore was shattered, and two groups of people even started fighting. The bookstore sent out several numbers, and when the doors finally opened, people flocked in. The inside and outside of the bookstore are flooded, and the police can't help it......

The entire series was selling well in the book market, and Gowen's translation of Walden was hard to find. Someone even put up a small advertisement on a public bulletin board on the street and asked for a copy of Walden for three times the price.

Fortunately, in view of the sales performance of Wangfujing Xinhua Bookstore, the People's Publishing House had already started the first reprinting at the beginning of sales.

It's just that the 300,000 sets of books printed here are also a drop in the bucket, and they can't meet the market demand at all, according to Long Shao, 50,000 sets of books have been ordered in Shanghai alone.

So the second printing began in a hurry, and this time Mr. Xiao Qian was ruthless. I got 500,000 copies in one reprint, and I still don't believe that it really can't meet the needs of the broad masses of the people!

And these days, Long Shao has always gone out early and returned late, and several times Govin saw him lie down on the bed as soon as he came home, so tired that he didn't even have the strength to eat.

And Govin had to temporarily serve as a nanny for a few days, cooking and cleaning up the housework.

"I knew that I would have bought a house quickly, how can I still serve you now!" One night. Gowen looked at Long Shao, who was lying on the table and gobbling up, with a look of great regret.

"Huh. Who made you have to buy a courtyard house yourself! Long Shaoba took a bite of rice and said angrily.

"Now Beijing is full of buildings with western-style buildings, you don't want to buy any courtyard houses! How can there be a building in the courtyard house to live comfortably, in terms of functionality, vision, and surrounding traffic environment, the courtyard is too far behind! Also, you said that you can buy a courtyard house. You still have to have a complete quadrangle, you said that you are still a bare-bones commander, even if you marry a wife and have children in the future, there are only a few people, what do you want so many houses! I don't understand you......"

Long Shao complained at length, and Govin had to ignore him.

What a chasm of the times!

Twenty more years. You'll know why I want a courtyard house!

"Don't worry about this, anyway, you can quickly help me inquire about where there are courtyards for sale. By the way, remember, I want the kind of courtyard house that is better preserved! If you want to sell the whole house! Don't just buy an east wing like last time......"

Long Shao didn't care about talking while holding the bowl, and nodded to indicate that he had received it.

Govin knew why Long Shao was so busy these days.

In this era, there is naturally no Taobao, Jingdong, Amazon, and people in this era cannot shop online like later generations, and in some smaller cities and counties, the coverage of Xinhua bookstores is not too high. For readers in small places, the most convenient way to buy books or magazines is to go to mail order.

That's right, it's mail order!

It doesn't matter if you don't have the Internet, but the post office is available in every county and even in the countryside.

As long as you know the address of the magazine or publishing house, as well as the name and price of the books and magazines you want to buy (this is easy to do, the post office has a special catalogue for subscribing to magazine books), then fill out a remittance form on the post office counter and send it to the publishing house or magazine, and then wait quietly for half a month or a month, a postman will knock on your door, and then a dusty, dusty brown paper parcel will be delivered to you, and the package will contain your favorite books or magazines.

As the Journey to the Future series became more and more popular, there were almost no more remittance slips sent to the People's Publishing House and letters from enthusiastic readers. Because the organizers and compilers of the book series are all members of the Sanlian Bookstore, when the comrades of the mail order department of the People's Publishing House are too busy, the people of the Sanlian Bookstore naturally have to be on top.

Long Shao has been spending time in the mail order department these days.

According to Long Shao, the mail order department of the People's Publishing House is now the busiest department in the entire publishing house. Every day, they need to transport many bags of new books from the warehouse, unpack and take out the books that go to the future inside, and then according to the information of the remittance form, one or several copies are packed in brown paper, written with the address, stamped, and sent to the post office for sending.

In the past few days, Long Shao packed the books every morning, sent them to the post office in the afternoon, and called the printing house to transport the books to the publishing house's warehouse the next day. Such mechanical busyness made these literati editors miserable, but no one complained or was impatient. Watching the books he compiled by himself be delivered to readers all over the country one by one, and that feeling was really, really happy.

When a person is serious, he is at his most beautiful.

When a person is doing what he loves, he is happiest.

Govin was deeply shocked and moved by this group of triad.

These days, he is also very concerned about the sales of the Towards the Future book series.

Govin knew that after the first printing of the first series of books was quickly sold out, the second printing of 300,000 copies was quickly snapped up by dealers across the country, and the third printing of 500,000 copies was enough, but books such as his "Walden", Li Xingmin's "Exciting Times" and "The Limits of Growth: A Study of the Club of Rome on the Human Dilemma" translated by Li Baoheng were soon going to sell out again.

That's a million books!

Such a large print run is almost unimaginable in the publishing world of later generations!

And no one knows if it will be reprinted in the future!

That's almost in time for his previous publication of Soldier Assault!

You must know that the reason why "Soldier Assault" can have such a high print run is also because there is still war on the border of Vietnam at this time, and it is also because there are no decent military novels in this era, not to mention that "Soldier Assault" is a reading list designated by grassroots officers and soldiers in major military regions!

And now the miracle of zào is actually created by some esoteric and difficult books on various subjects!

The people of Sanlian are great, but the people of this era are even greater!

These days, Govin has attended many school lectures, and his footprints have been left everywhere in the streets and alleys of Beijing.

He had seen with his own eyes and heard with his own ears some sights and sounds that made his blood boil -

A young woman got off work, and on the way back from the vegetable market, in the basket of her bicycle, in addition to tomatoes and potatoes, there was also Li Xingmin's "Exciting Age"!

On the bus, a middle school student's schoolbag was exposed, in addition to the Chinese textbook, there was also his "Walden"!

When he went to several schools to participate in activities, on campus, in the classroom, the hot topic of discussion among students and teachers was the knowledge and ideas in the Towards the Future series!

When a college student asks him for an autograph, he is holding "Walden" in his hand, and when he roughly turns the pages, he can see that many of the words in it are full of bars and experiences!

Seeing such a scene, hearing such words, I don't know why Govin really wanted to cry.

Luckily!

Honored! (To be continued.) )

PS: The plot of the book series Towards the Future is a very important dark line in the original outline, which is directly related to the protagonist's turn in the late eighties and early nineties. Considering some factors, the rebel has weakened this dark line, but it still has an impact on the rest of the text, so please don't think that such a chapter is in the water.

When I write, I always adhere to the principle that "the more beautiful the protagonist is pursuing, the more excited the reader will be, and the more moved will be by the protagonist's success". I forgot that this sentence was said by the great god.,Although sometimes when you code words.,The head is empty.,In order to keep changing, you can only force it to write down.,But sometimes it's really with the feelings of a traitor.。 When I wrote this chapter today, it was smooth, and it was really exciting at the end.

In the end, it is still a subscription and a full subscription.

Give me strength and I will keep going better!