Chapter 29 "Journey to the West" Volume I

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Compared with the hustle and bustle of the game hall upstairs, the Qinghua Bookstore downstairs is quieter.

The staircase is facing the door of the bookstore, and the four typings of Qinghua Bookstore on the door frame are painted in red to make it extra eye-catching.

Walking into the automatic door that had sensed the arrival of the guests, the bookstore was open with the air conditioner, and the whole cool was blowing in the face, and as Ling Xin entered, the automatic door closed, isolating the lively and noisy sound behind him that could still be heard even if it was a story away, and it was suddenly cool and quiet, as if entering another world.

Perhaps for the convenience of customers, the furnishings are very simple, one after another huge bookshelves are lined up from the door to the end, and at the entrance, you can see at a glance how many bookshelves there are, and the side of each bookshelf is pasted with the general category of books on the shelf, and the bookshelves are arranged until the corner of the wall is about ten meters vacant, and then there is no more place, but a seat is set.

Eighty percent of the books on the shelves are packaged, and the books in this category are forbidden to be sampled, while the remaining 20 percent of the unpackaged books can be read in the bookstore, and the special seats are set up for customers to flip through in the store. There is a camera inside the bookstore, so if you tear open the package without permission, you will buy the book.

There are about 50 seats in the store, basically more than half of the people are seated, plus those who stop in front of the bookshelves to read, there are not a few people reading in the bookstore, in fact, Ling Xin also feels that in such a quiet environment where everyone around her is reading carefully, it is indeed better to calm down and read books.

There is no explicit rule in the bookstore that the books that have been read should be put back in their original places, that the books should be cherished, that noise is prohibited in the bookstore, etc., etc., but everyone did it, and did not see the figure of the caretaker tidying up the shelves, even if they talked, they whispered in their ears, and the bookstore was so quiet that only the occasional sound of turning paper could be heard.

When civility becomes a habitual behavior of everyone, a series of uncivilized behaviors that indulge oneself and ignore the feelings of others will be condemned by the masses. People always have a herd mentality, just like in another world, when incivility has become everyone's habitual behavior, individual people everywhere to be civilized has become a strange behavior.

At the entrance gate, go inward to the nearest bookshelf, that is, the first bookshelf is the most conspicuous bookshelf facing the door, this bookshelf is different from other bookshelves, just like the classification labels on the side of other bookshelves such as life, learning materials, novels, magazines, etc., the label on the side of this bookshelf directly writes the word hot sales.

There are also some small labels in the bookshelf, such as fantasy, urban, etc. in the fiction bookshelf, and there will be labels for the appropriate grade in the study bookshelf. And the small label in this first special bookshelf is magazines, novels, essays, etc., as long as it is a hot seller, it will be placed on the most conspicuous first bookshelf, it is said that all Qinghua chain bookstores across the country are designed in this way, so over time, the physical book "Qinghua's first bookshelf" has become a proof of popularity.

Skimming directly through the front magazines, after all, Qinghua's first bookshelf will definitely have three top three magazines, "That Time", "Meditation" and "Spring".

The main reason why Ling Xin came out to shop today was that as early as a week ago, when Wang Xuelian, the editor in charge, came to pick up the manuscript, she had already informed her that the physical book of the first volume of "Journey to the West", which had been serialized for four months and had now been completed, had come out.

The popularity of "Journey to the West" began to rise at an alarming rate, and by the beginning of the third episode, it had exceeded 15 million votes to win the first place in the popularity ranking of "Spring", and the results of 15 million votes could be firmly placed in the top three even if it was placed on "That Time" and "Meditation", and half of the people in "Spring", which sold 30 million copies, supported "Journey to the West", and the rest were die-hard fans accumulated by veteran writers all year round, precisely because of "Spring" The people who will buy this magazine are generally die-hard fans who support the old writers they like, resulting in more than half of the original 20 million copies of the tickets are fixed, and the novices have not yet begun to exert their strength in this magazine, and their popularity is less than half of those old writers, in fact, many magazines are in such a situation, so it is actually very difficult for newcomers to overpower those old writers. After all, readers will give priority to the works of those old writers, which means that you will lose half of them before you are beaten.

And the fifteen million votes in "Journey to the West", of which except for 5 million votes, are "old customers" of "Spring", and the remaining 10 million votes are purely because of this novel to buy this magazine! What is this concept?! It's a novel that directly drives the sales of magazines! And it's 10 million, half of the original sales! What is it?! This is a personal rebellion!

In fact, there are still people who can do it, because of the long-term accumulation of huge popularity and the wonderful articles that are already guaranteed, such as the first brother Guo Siyao in "That Time", according to online data, "That Time" sells more than 60 million copies per month, but it has skyrocketed to 80 million copies several times, in fact, the original 60 million copies of "That Time" has become close to saturation, after all, there are so many people in the world who can buy magazines and can afford magazines, scattered in various magazines, Often, if one party's performance wants to be raised, it means that it has to steal customers from other magazines. And the sudden explosion of sales was because of the wonderful plot climax written by Guo Siyao who suddenly broke out, and then the fans responded enthusiastically, and everyone bought several magazines to swipe his tickets......

"That Time" has an average monthly sales of 60 million copies, Guo Siyao accounts for more than 40 million copies, even "That Time", an old best-selling magazine, has to provide him like a god, no way, originally a few years ago when Guo Siyao had not yet risen "That Time" sold 50 million copies, but since he began serialization, he quickly preached, and the power of brainwashing like a cult quickly attracted a large number of readers to become his diehard fans, and now it is not an exaggeration to say that "That Time" has been occupied by Guo Siyao......

It is conceivable that if a brother like Guo Siyao jumps to any magazine, I believe that his die-hard fans will definitely follow, so the editor-in-chief of "That Time" is really loving and afraid of Guo Siyao now.

The 15 million votes of "Journey to the West" caused the sales of "Spring" to skyrocket to 3,000 copies, but I didn't see how much the sales of other magazines declined, so many "Emperor of Truth" who popped up on the Internet pointed out that the 15 million votes of "Journey to the West" were actually swiping tickets by fans.

In fact, the readers of "Journey to the West", including a large part of the population, are tired of the cookie-cutter novels in the magazine, and they will buy the magazine when they see this novel by chance, including many traditional literary writers who have always disdained commercial novels have bought this magazine for this classic. This part of the "new" customers that did not exist in the first place led to the sales of "Spring" like a ticket swipe. This kind of customer source who has not bought magazines in the first place is the most stable, because they are tired of "magazine novels", and "Spring" is the only thing that can move them, if "Spring" is cheated one day they will not buy other magazines, because they are tired of those novels, so they will either buy "Spring" or stop reading magazines.

Since the launch of "Journey to the West", the editor-in-chief Ding Lu has been full of red light every day, and uninformed people still think that he has come to the second spring......

As for why she learned that "Journey to the West" was released last week but only came to watch it now, Ling Xin's answer was, "I'm a student!" And it's almost time for the final exam! She won't admit that she was too lazy to go to the city center!

Last Saturday, when the first volume of "Journey to the West" was officially released, the family originally said that they would not go, but when they slept in the room until dinner, they saw that there were three more books on the bookshelf in the living room when they passed by the living room, and the two samples of "Journey to the West" sent by the magazine were put together.

The family supported her so silently, Ling Xin was moved and felt that she really didn't pay attention to this first time to issue a single book, but it was really troublesome to walk to the city center that was more than ten minutes away from home! This also means that it takes 10 minutes to walk to the city center in the opposite direction of home, and it takes 20 minutes to go back the same way, and it takes 30 minutes to walk back and forth!

Then I heard that Ning Zetao and they were going to the game hall in the city center, thinking that if they played the game by the way, it would make their half-hour journey more meaningful, so there was the latter scene.

Pull out a copy of "Journey to the West" in a very conspicuous position, on the cover, the four masters and apprentices are walking on the river, the leading Monkey King puts the golden hoop stick on the back of his neck, his hands hang on both ends of the stick, and he walks alone in front of the road, Zhu Bajie behind him has a big belly, holding a nine-tooth nail rake in one hand, and holding the white dragon horse in the other hand to look ahead, Tang Seng sat quietly on the white dragon horse, and the sand monk behind him carried the flat shoulder, silently following behind everyone, and the four of them all looked forward and moved forward.

As a hot-selling "Journey to the West", of course, there will be no "trial books" that have been opened with the cover opened, and most of those "trial books" are only open after more than a month of release.

It has been six days since the release of "Journey to the West" from last Saturday to Friday, and it is said that the door of the bookstore is still pasted with a poster of "Journey to the West" two days after its release, and there is a life-size model of the Monkey King wearing chain gold armor, phoenix wings and purple gold crown on his head, stepping on lotus silk and walking clouds, and holding a Ruyi golden hoop stick.

Even though it has been six days since it was released, the residual heat has not yet dissipated, Guang Lingxin looked down at the cover of "Journey to the West" in her hand, and already felt that several people around her had come to take away a copy of "Journey to the West".

However, Ling Xin understands that this is just the beginning, compared with the far-reaching influence of "Journey to the West" in another world, all kinds of movies, animations, fandom, and peripheral products, the amazing best-selling results of the first volume of "Journey to the West" in the eyes of others are just the beginning in Ling Xin's eyes.

Holding the book in one hand, he stroked the four masters and apprentices on the cover through the wrapping paper with the other, bowed his head and whispered, "Look at it!" I will let your light shine on this world! ”