Chapter 294: Blocked Again!
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Syllable!
Qiu Ming, vice chairman of the Writers' Association, looked at the news of the forum on the computer screen and slapped the table angrily.
"This Liu Qingyan really doesn't know what to do! Since she insists on helping Volcano out "The Condor Heroes", then don't blame me for being unkind. ”
Qiu Ming thought that the publication of "The Condor Heroes" would come to an end here, but he never expected that Liu Qingyan would actually pay out of her own pocket to build a volcano media group and make a publishing house by herself.
Although in this way, Liu Qingyan can publish and print on her own, and no longer has to go to those publishing houses that have relevant publishing qualifications.
However, Qiu Ming still relies on the relationship for so many years and has huge control.
"Hey! Lao Zhang? Right! I'm Qiu Ming, and you're at Xinhua Bookstore, give me a copy of the list of books you're going to push recently...... Hey? How do you know I'm looking for the Condor Heroes? How about giving me a face and pushing the sales plan for this book? ”
After a phone call, Qiu Ming first found Zhang Qingshan, the deputy general manager of Xinhua Bookstore, and the other party actually knew the intention as soon as he received his call.
"Old Qiu, the grievances between you and this volcano are actually known to us in the industry. Originally, I couldn't do this thing, after all, the sales contract with the Volcano Media Group was signed. But since you have been talking for a long time, of course I have nothing to say, after all, if you were not old, I would not have been able to sit in this position. ”
On the other side of the phone, Zhang Qingshan agreed to Qiu Ming's request in two clicks, and then quickly called his secretary Xiao Tian to come in and said: "Xiao Tian, regarding the distribution channels of "The Condor Heroes" the day after tomorrow, send the group documents down, and the Xinhua bookstores across the country will remove all the books......
"Huh? Mr. Zhang, this ...... Haven't we already made some marketing posters? Xiao Tian said in surprise for a while, "Moreover, the reputation and popularity of "The Condor Heroes" on the Internet are very hot now, and the sales are destined to not be bad." ”
"You don't have to worry about this, there are other reasons. On Mr. Qiu's side, since they all came to me in person, this sacrifice is also necessary. Besides, our Xinhua bookstore sells so many books every year, and it is not bad for this bestseller. Even if it can sell again, it will sell more than 100,000 copies a year, which is nothing. ”
Waving his hand, Zhang Qingshan nodded and said, "Just arrange it like this!" As for the contract on the Volcano Media Group's side, tens of thousands of yuan in liquidated damages will be given to them. The books haven't been shipped here anyway......"
"This ...... All right! ”
Secretary Oda is a veteran volcanic mud, and I thought that I could take advantage of my position to get the book from within the group earlier and get a sneak peek.
However, just before the arrival of "The Condor Heroes" the next day, such a thing happened that made him indignant in his heart.
"This damn Qiu Ming, relying on the old and selling the old, actually dares to suppress our volcano like this......"
sighed, Xiao Tian had no other way, Zhang Qingshan was the deputy general manager of the entire Xinhua Bookstore, since he personally inquired about the sales and distribution of a book, he, a small secretary, naturally couldn't resist.
On the other hand, after making a phone call to Xinhua Bookstore, the largest book distributor, Qiu Ming called the heads of the top ten national chain bookstores and book institutions in China, and in the end, eight of the top ten institutions agreed to give Qiu Ming this face and withdrew the distribution and marketing plan of "The Condor Heroes".
There are only the last two, because they are considered new stars, and they have no friendship or personal contact with Qiu Ming at all, so they don't give him this face.
But this is enough, after all, the distribution agencies of these eight book institutions already account for more than 90% of the annual share of book sales. Moreover, the remaining small distribution agencies are often very messy, and there is no scale in the country at all.
As long as these terminal sales agencies are curbed and they are not allowed to sell "The Condor Heroes", then even if "The Condor Heroes" is popular on the Internet, and more readers like and buy it, then they go to the nearest bookstore to their homes, but they can't buy "The Condor Heroes" at all, what is the use of publishing?
In this world, there is no such thing as online e-commerce, even if there are some signs, there are some websites that sell things on the Internet, they are all the official websites of some physical chain stores, and they are basically the existence of decorations, and everyone is still used to visiting stores and buying things in reality.
This is especially true when it comes to online sales of books, there are no online bookstores like Dangdang and Amazon. After all, a book only sells for more than ten or twenty yuan, but the courier fee is generally about twenty yuan, and in such an environment, online bookstores can't do it at all.
Therefore, based on these general environment and conditions, Qiu Ming curbed these large distribution channels, so that they could sit back and relax without selling "The Condor Heroes", and there was no need to worry that "The Condor Heroes" would really sell well.
"Humph! Liu Qingyan, Liu Qingyan! Originally, I wanted to train you so that you could take over the position of vice president of the Writers' Association in the future, after all, you can be said to be outstanding among the new generation of writers and critics. But if you want to help that volcano fight against me, then don't blame me, this time you will have money to print books, and you won't be able to sell them......"
After completing this series of attacks on the publication of "The Condor Heroes", Qiu Ming only spent less than half an hour and made more than a dozen phone calls.
For an authoritative writer like him, who plays an important role in the domestic literary world and has managed a lifelong relationship network, this bit of face is still there, basically the heads of those book distribution agencies are his juniors, and many of them have also inherited his affection.
And for these, Lin Can and Liu Qingyan didn't know anything at all.
After all, Liu Qingyan is still too young to have a deep understanding of this special kind of relational socialization in China. She naively thought that if she had the money to set up a publishing group, then publish and print independently, and then do a good job of communicating distribution channels like before, she could distribute "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" to bookstores across the country.
However, she ignored the most important point, in the past, he was in the Writers' Pioneer Publishing House, a large state-owned publishing house affiliated with the name of the Writers' Association, and all kinds of channels and relationships were ready-made, so everyone gave her face, the green light all the way, and the procedures and contracts were very simple.
But now, she has come out to work alone, and she has been busy in the past few days, and the entire publishing group has less than ten people even with her and Lin Can. originally relied on the previous relationship and the popularity of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" on the Internet, and reluctantly talked about several channels for distribution and sales, but once Qiu Ming was blocked like this, all the smooth channels were beaten back. (To be continued.) )