Shueisha, ML Bunko.

Editor-in-chief Iwasa listened to the report of the operation department, and immediately said: "Add print!" Another 300,000 copies will be printed! No! Don't reprint, we will reprint it directly, and directly announce the reprint of 500,000 copies!

"When it is reprinted, the content is not changed.

"But I had to redesign the cover, especially the book cover, and write directly to me that it was 'No. 1 on the best-selling double list', 'Winning the Edogawa Ranbu Award', '300,000 copies sold in a week', and 'A phenomenal work that is reprinted when it is published...... and so on.

“……”

Unbelievable.

It's unbelievable.

Just a few hours before the list was announced.

The library has already received orders from chain bookstores across the country, saying that the book "The Dedication of Suspect X" is selling very well, and I hope to get more goods from the publishing house.

However, what made Iwasa kinji, the editor-in-chief of the library, speechless.

On the side of the headquarters warehouse, where is there any inventory, the first printing of 300,000 copies was transferred by bookstores across the country one after another as early as this week, and none of them were left for him.

It's incredible.

Obviously, public opinion on the Internet is one-sided, and he is not optimistic about the works of Ninomiya Ritsu at all.

Why is it that Ritsu Ninomiya's works are on sale, and Edogawa Ranbu appreciates the works of Hayato Terashima, but only 120,000 copies are sold, which is a nearly three-fold difference!

Could it be that the second house is on sale?

As soon as this thought came to his mind, he immediately began to deny himself.

If you want to brush sales, you generally order from one channel, but it can be seen from the transfer list that the sales volume of each channel across the country is about the same, and it is impossible to brush sales.

It's simply not possible.

This proves it.

Ritsu Ninomiya's works are really bestsellers, and they far surpass Hayato Terashima's works, and he can be regarded as picking up a treasure this time.

"Editor-in-chief, is it an exaggeration to reprint 500,000 copies?"

The head of operations hesitated: "If you can't sell it, how much damage it will cause." ”

"Stupid!"

Editor-in-chief Iwasa said dissatisfied: "Haven't you seen it yet? With the exposure of sales and the fermentation of word-of-mouth, the next public opinion is about to flip, do you think that 500,000 copies of the reprint is too much, and I still think it is not enough. ”

"But editor-in-chief, I still don't understand."

The head of operations also raised the same question: "It is said on the Internet that Mr. Terashima-sensei's "Crime and Punishment" will crush Mr. Ninomiya's "The Dedication of Suspect X", why is the ranking of sales reversed? ”

……

"Shiori-chan, the reason is very simple."

Ritsu Ninomiya replied to Shiori Hayakawa with a smile: "There is a saying called - the silent majority.

"Don't look at the public opinion on the Internet.

But if you are careful, you will find that the total number of likes and comments on my Twitter does not add up to more than 30,000, and most netizens are actually silent.

"See the big in the small.

"Among these silent netizens, even if seven or eighty percent are affected by public opinion and maintain a wait-and-see attitude towards me, there are still one or two percent of readers who will buy my works out of curiosity or want to pick thorns.

"If the work is good-looking.

"Naturally, they will spontaneously spread the word to their friends and loved ones.

"Although the sales brought by this kind of publicity are not considerable, it can't stand the fact that Neon's domestic reading base is too large.

"And black and red are also red.

"Even if there is only one out of fifty readers, only one buys.

"It's not difficult to sell 300,000 a week.

And.

"Don't underestimate the reader's caution about paid reading.

"A book is about a thousand yen, and I bet that many readers have borrowed friends and classmates to buy it, and after reading the opening part, they think it is exciting, so they will buy a copy to continue reading, keep it as a souvenir, or preach and so on."

“……”

"Yes, is that so?"

Shiori Hayakawa doesn't quite understand, just buy a book, do you need to think about it so much?

"Ritsu-kun is right."

Yona Ichinose immediately echoed: "Hayakawa-san, your family is relatively wealthy, and you may not know much about the situation of ordinary high school students, and most students don't have much pocket money, so they are very cautious when buying.

"Take a few students in class C who love reasoning.

"Every time they buy a new work.

"It's one of them who buys it, and the others borrow it to see the beginning, and if it's wonderful, they will also buy it, and even poke their hearts, resonate with them, and some students will buy two more books to treasure and preach.

"Of course, if you don't get them interested.

"Then they'll just take advantage of their friends' white prostitution."

“……”

Hear here.

Shiori Hayakawa has already understood why Ritsu Ninomiya's work, which is not favored by the whole network, can sell 300,000 copies a week.

Because the reader's wallet is the most honest.

Who wouldn't say that?

Anyway, you don't want money to say a few words.

But when it's time to spend money, you have to see if it's worth the money.

In the eyes of the reader.

Ritsu's works are more able to poke their hearts and make them pay willingly, so Ritsu's works can sell 300,000 copies a week, and Hayato Terashima's works can only sell 120,000 copies a week.

It's not that Hayato Terashima isn't strong.

Contrary.

The sales of 120,000 copies a week have already surpassed the previous Edogawa Ranbu Awards.

It's just that the law of the second house is stronger.

So much so that in comparison, it's like Hayato Terashima wrote about dung.

I can't help it.

Many people in the circle mourned for Hayato Terashima.

Obviously, you can avoid the new work of the second palace law on sale.,I have to think about not fighting with him.,It's okay now.,Kicked the steel plate.。

……

"Teacher, how can this be! How so! ”

Hayato Terashima's expression collapsed, and he asked his teacher, Yoshihara Kuramoto: "This kind of exaggerated sales is fake, right?" It must be fake, how can a normal person sell more than 300,000 copies in the first week when the whole network is black? ”

"Hayato-kun, ML Bunko has posted a transfer order, and it has also publicly announced a reprint of 500,000 copies, all kinds of evidence show that Ninomiya Law is not fake, so such remarks are untenable, you must not say this on the Internet, this will only lead to burn, and people will say that you can't afford to lose." Kuramoto Yoshito admonished.

Hayato Terashima asked, "But teacher, did you just admit it?" ”

"Otherwise?"

Kuramoto Yoshito felt that iron could not be made of steel.

In this case.

I can't even see the form clearly.

The work that sold 300,000 copies in the first week, not to mention that you are a newcomer who has just debuted, even if he releases a new book himself, he may not be able to fight, is it difficult to resist if he doesn't admit defeat quickly?

The two are not of the same magnitude at all.

"And don't worry."

Kuramoto Yoshito's eyes were meaningful: "The Edogawa Ranbu Award Selection Committee and Kodansha are estimated to be countless times more anxious than you now, and the sky is falling because of their tall ones, so we can sit and wait for the results." ”

Yoshitoshi Kuramoto is far from being a veteran in the industry.

His guess was correct.

The Edogawa Ranpo Award Selection Committee, as well as Kodansha, were like ants on a hot pot at this time.

Because with the official announcement of the weekly sales rankings and the evidence published by Shueisha ML Bunko, everything shows that Ritsu Ninomiya's sales are genuine, which will give birth to a new public opinion-

Selection of the Edogawa Ranpo Prize.

Whether it is as Ritsu Ninomiya's public Twitter said, there is a question of unfairness and injustice. (End of chapter)