Chapter Forty-Eight: It always feels like something is wrong there
On Saturday, March 24, today happens to be the seventh day of the release of "The Little Prince". Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
In the office of the editor-in-chief of the Education Press, Yu Jingyi sat in his swivel chair and drank a cup of coffee slowly.
There was a knock on ...... door.
"Please come in." Yu Jingyi said.
"Editor-in-chief, today's first-week sales data for the "Little Prince" school bookstore is out." Wang Jingya, the secretary to the editor-in-chief, walked into the office with a folder in her hand and said to Yu Jingyi.
"Show me." Yu Jingyi hurriedly stood up from the swivel chair with her coffee, staring at the folder in Wang Jingya's hand with blazing eyes.
In the past few days, the book "The Little Prince" has created too many surprises for him, first the first printing of 500,000 copies on the first day of listing sold out, winning the first place in the major lists, and then it has become one of the best-selling novels in recent years in the educational publishing house and even the entire domestic publishing industry.
In the end, "The Little Prince" set a record for the fastest sales of a newcomer's first book on the market, selling 3 million copies in five days with a strong word-of-mouth effect.
This record cannot be said to be unprecedented, because the back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, and no one can predict the future, but so far the sales of "The Little Prince" must be unprecedented, at least in China.
You must know that the sales record previously held by the youth fantasy king Luo Yunfei's fantasy masterpiece "Final Redemption" is only 2446356 copies, although it is already very high, but it is more than 500,000 copies different from Qin Ge's "The Little Prince", so it is only used here.
It can be said that if there is no accident, the sales record of "The Little Prince" will not be broken by a newcomer in the next few years, and it should not be impossible for anyone to break it in the next ten years, including Qin Ge himself.
Although the sales of "The Little Prince" have been declining in recent days, they have not fallen much, and they are all within acceptable ranges. After all, the consumption power of the entire market is there, although there are more than one billion people in China, not everyone is online, everyone can know "The Little Prince", and not everyone who knows will buy it.
Therefore, Yu Jingyi predicts that the sales of the Little Prince's bookstore in the first week of its listing should be about 300,000 copies, and the national sales will be about 6 million copies, which is based on his past experience.
However, 6 million copies is also very remarkable for a newcomer, no, it should be described as unprecedented.
In terms of sales alone, the current Qin Ge is already a super-first-line bestseller.
It was precisely because of this that Yu Jingyi didn't care when he took over the sales statistics from Wang Jingya, but when the series of numbers behind the sales data of "The Little Prince" came into his eyes, Yu Jingyi was so shocked that he almost crushed the piece of paper, and his eyes couldn't wait to see through the paper.
562632 volume!
, how much is this? More than 560,000 copies.
Yu Jingyi swallowed his saliva, put down the coffee cup with trembling hands, raised his head and said to the secretary Wang Jingya: "This data is not wrong, right?" ”
Wang Jingya seemed to have expected Yu Jingyi to have such a reaction, and said with a smile: "I didn't believe it when I got this data at the beginning, I asked the Propaganda Department, and they were actually incredible at first. However, he has already called the school bookstore to confirm, and the data is correct, it is 562632 volume! ”
When Yu Jingyi heard this, his throat moved, and he looked down at the data in his hand again with a surprised face.
562632 volumes, really 562632 volumes!
What the hell is going on with this Nima! Nearly 300,000 copies more than originally expected, and if the bookstore is 562632 volumes, then multiply 20 to get the national sales, and the national sales will be ......
Because he was excited, Jing Yi's brain suddenly couldn't turn around, so he picked up the calculator on the table, ready to multiply it, and calculate what the sales volume of the country would be.
"563632 conservatively click on 560,000 copies, 560,000 multiplied by 20 equals 11,200,000, how much is this, 11,200,000 copies?"
"Calm down, calm down, count again."
Yu Jingyi, who came to this conclusion, stretched out his hand and rubbed his eyes again, and then stretched out his fingers again to rank the numbers one by one: "Ten hundred, thousand, million, million, million, heaven!" Eleven two thousand copies, really more than a million copies, my God, how can this be? That's more than 5 million more than expected! ”
"Whew~ I have to calm down, otherwise I won't be able to stand this heart." Yu Jingyi stood up on the table, Wang Jingya found that his legs were actually a little trembling, so she hurriedly went up, trying to hold Yu Jingyi for fear that it would fall.
"It's okay, I'm fine, I can do it." Yu Jingyi waved his hand and refused, he was so excited.
So that I was a little scared with excitement, this sales volume was inevitably too terrifying and ridiculous.
What is the concept of selling more than 11 million copies nationwide in the first week of its launch?
What is this concept? Yu Jingyi tried hard to find a book's first-week sales to compare with "The Little Prince", but he found that he couldn't find it, so he didn't know what the concept was.
Not to mention more than 11 million copies in the first week, even the tens of millions of sales of the top writers are accumulated one by one, not that a book has sold more than 10 million.
And the so-called sales of more than 10 million are the result of years of accumulation, he has been publishing books for so many years, of course there are books with sales of more than 10 million under his hands, but there is absolutely no more than 10 million in the first week. So he doesn't know how to describe his mood now, maybe he can barely use the shock, the overwhelming shock.
"What's the situation?" Yu Jingyi looked at Wang Jingya.
"I don't know much about that." Wang Jingya was also stunned, and she didn't understand why this "The Little Prince" sold so well.
"Check it out right away, and be sure to find out the reason." Yu Jingyi said.
"Yes." Wang Jingya spoke, and then held the folder and prepared to walk out of the office.
"Wait, that's not right!" What did Yu Jingyi suddenly think? Stopped Wang Jingya.
"What's wrong, editor-in-chief?" Wang Jingya turned around and asked suspiciously.
"That's more than 11 million copies, but I always feel like there's something wrong." Yu Jingyi's brows furrowed together, and he lowered his head in thought.
"Huh? Wrong? That's right! I've done the math before, and it's more than 11.2 million copies. Wang Jingya asked with some doubts, she did calculate, that is, more than 11 million copies.
"No, no, I dare to feel that I was carried away by this number just now, and now I am a little confused, but there must be something wrong." Yu Jingyi paced back and forth in the office, frowning and pondering, he always felt that something was not quite right about this, but he couldn't think of what was wrong for a while.
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