After all, the European market is in a recession, and people are losing their jobs every day, and no one wants to join the unemployed! In order not to be fired, they are even willing to reduce their salaries, as long as the publisher is willing to hire them and can pay them enough to live on time!

Just when they were worried about what the new boss would do with them, their former boss, Mr. John, issued a notice to them: everyone in the publishing house would not be fired, and he would remain as the executive manager of the publishing house!

While the staff were still immersed in the good news, Mr. John told them the good news - the publishing house had signed a book □ write about the regular worker! As employees of publishing houses, their basic salary is actually not high, relying on the bonuses they can get after the publication goes on sale.

However, if the published work hits the streets, then their prize money will be lost!

Therefore, for the first work of the publishing house after the reorganization this time, they all played a 120,000-point spirit, carefully proofreading every word, and carefully typesetting. With the concerted efforts of all the staff, it took them only two days to complete the layout and proofreading of the original work, and then Mr. John personally supervised the printing of the work.

Ye Ming originally planned to print a million copies directly, after all, with the crazy results of "Harry Potter" that swept the world in the previous life, it was simply sharp and sour in the previous life!

But when Ye Ming brought up this number, Mr. John was startled, and immediately spoke out to stop it. Because in England, the best-selling works in the whole year last year were only a million copies!

And to be able to achieve such a result, it is because the author of the work is also a well-known senior writer in England, with a certain number of hardcore readers, and the largest publishing and distribution group in England is responsible for publishing and distributing this work.

But what about them?

Although Mr. John is convinced that "Harry Potter" is a very good work, and his own boss is strong, he can't stand that his boss is a newcomer, and his own publishing house has a limited distribution level, so he is destined to not be able to promote and sell it nationwide like the other party!

Eventually, at Mr. John's suggestion, the first printing of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was set at 500,000 copies!

After more than a month of printing and production, the 500,000 books that still exude a strong smell of ink were shipped from the printing house to various large and medium-sized bookshops throughout Scotland...

Although it is not possible to cover all bookstores in the country in the same way as those large publishing groups, small and small have a small way to live.

A few years ago, Mr. John opened up the cooperation with several of the most important medium and large bookstore groups in China through his own efforts, and all publications were sold to the outside world through these large and medium-sized bookstore groups, and now it is naturally the same!

A day later, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone arrived in the bookstores, and all the publishing staff, including Mr. John, were eagerly awaiting the booming sales

But......

On the first day, the total national sales of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone": 33 copies.

The next day, the total national sales of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: 67 copies.

On the third day, the total national sales of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: 115 copies......

Although the number of sales is nearly doubling every day, this is a lot of nonsense.

What went wrong? With this in mind, Mr. John walked into a partner bookstore in London.

When he first stepped into the bookstore, he was greeted by a huge promotional poster hanging in the center of the bookstore lobby.

Look at the image of the giant paladin on the poster and "Legendary Paladin" is on sale! Mr. John's heart couldn't help but chuckle, and he had a bad premonition!

This "Legendary Paladin" is the sister of the magical novel "The Legendary Paladin", which set a million-dollar annual sales in England last year!

After breaking the sales record for the fantasy novel genre in the English ontology publishing market, York Publishing Group, which is responsible for publishing and distributing this legendary series of fantasy sales, immediately made an appointment with the author to publish the sequel, and announced that it will be available to readers by the end of this year at the latest!

In the face of the new book of the hottest author in the English book market, many publishers and writers have chosen to avoid the release date of his works, either early or delayed, and no one wants to collide with each other head-on, and then be covered in blood!

The same goes for Mr. John!

Originally, Mr. John planned to launch "Harry Potter" as soon as possible while the other party's sister book was not yet on the market, wanting to make a time difference, but he still underestimated the author's and York Publishing Group's desire for money!

"The Legendary Holy Mage" is very popular, and neither the writer nor the publisher can afford to watch the craze subside before releasing a sequel!

So, stimulated by money, the writer only took less than half a year to complete the creation of the sequel, and then the York Publishing Group immediately organized personnel to proofread and edit it, and the sequel was produced in the shortest possible time, and distributed and sold nationwide!

Mr. John walked around the bookstore, and sure enough, his bad omen came true! As the sister of last year's most popular fantasy novel, "The Legendary Paladin" simply enjoyed the treatment of a star!

The bookstore has placed "Legendary Paladin" in the most conspicuous position in the entire sales area, not only in the sales area of the fantasy novel to which the legendary Paladin belongs, but also on the side of various other book types, there are also promotional posters and books of "Legendary Paladin", and even it is bundled with the previous game "Legendary Paladin"!

In this case, "The Ugly Mount of Leaning" has received the attention of countless people.

Within five minutes of Mr. John's stay, he had seen at least thirty or forty people pick up The Legendary Paladin, and a dozen of them had already put the book in their shopping baskets!

And what about Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone? After some searching, Mr. John didn't find the book "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" at all!

Just as Mr. John was about to ask the bookstore clerk about it, he received a call from an employee who had led all the staff to conduct on-site research in various major bookstores in London in order to find out why the sales of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone were sluggish.