A healing writer? No, it's a depressing writer!

Chapter 128 This book will shock your soul!
"No buddy, how can this be considered hunger marketing?"

When book lovers came from far away after hearing the news, they went to the newspaper bookstore they had not visited for a long time, but were unexpectedly told by the clerk -

"Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" is out of stock?

I've already been tempted and taken off my pants, but you tell me the book is out of stock. Who can stand this?

Unwilling to give up, the book lovers expanded their search scope and went to the larger libraries and bookstores near the city center, hoping to find the book. However, without exception, they were all told by the sales clerks that -

“This book is sold out!”

This really made the book lovers confused.

You said that either you don’t push it, or if you want to push it, you should stock up on enough goods before pushing it.

The book is halfway through its launch, just when it's selling about halfway, and you're saying it's gone?
Isn't this just playing tricks on people?
"I never thought that one day selling books could be done through hunger marketing?"

In fact, this cannot be blamed on Jiang Hai’s lack of preparation. The main reason is that he himself did not expect that the effect of asking Kong Xi to promote the product would be so good.
The quality of the book is guaranteed by Professor Liu Zhenyun.

The book was promoted with the help of a top-tier celebrity like Kong Xi.

According to the original plan, the first issue of "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" should be printed in 150,000 copies, of which these 150,000 copies were printed in three batches:

One issue, 30,000 copies.

Second issue, 50,000 copies.

Three issues, 70,000 copies.

Now, the second issue has just been printed, which means that there are only 8 copies of "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" on the market, and the remaining third issue of the finished book has not yet been printed.

Who would have thought that these 8 books were actually collected in one day, or more precisely, in one afternoon.

It was sold out immediately?
"No, Jiang Hai, what on earth did you do???"

As Jiang Hai's agent, Yang Shuman, who communicated directly with bookstores and newspapers, was confused when she saw the weird sales data curve.

"Last week, we only sold about 3,000 books in total. In just one afternoon today, the remaining 70,000 books are -"

“It actually went bankrupt directly? This is too scary!”

Yang Shuman was shocked by the extremely terrifying sales data. The next second, her phone was bombarded with calls from major bookstores and publishers:
"We are from Times Bookstore. We want to get the next issue of "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" published. We would like to pre-order 40,000 copies for the time being."

"Is this Ms. Yang Shuman? Hello, I'm from the newsstand! The book you asked me to sell this morning is selling very well."

"Ms. Yang Shuman? The copy of "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" that you entrusted us to put on the shelves last time has sold out. We are out of stock. When do you think the next batch of goods will arrive?"

"Ms. Yang Shuman, can we contact the author Jiang Hai through you?"

Xingtian Chinese website, inside the building.

Yang Shuman felt like she was about to faint from working so hard. She was in a rush. She was busy talking on the phone with the heads of major publishing houses, newspapers, and bookstores, while at the same time recording the names and contact numbers of bookstores that wanted to stock up more stock in their warehouses for the following week. In addition to taking time off, she was also responsible for connecting with the printing factories.

Although, she didn't know what Jiang Hai had done to make "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood", which was initially ignored, suddenly become popular.

However, through the current situation, she can basically confirm one thing -

Fifteen thousand books is definitely not enough to satisfy the market!

"Jiang Hai, the printing factory's inventory seems to be a little insufficient. Do you think we can print some more?"

The person on the other end of the phone seemed to be busy with something and didn't reply to her message for a long time.

After waiting for about ten minutes, Jiang Hai finally gave her an answer:
"it is good!"

In fact, it is not difficult to ask the printing factory to print more copies. With the finished book as a sample, you only need to make additional investments to allow the printing factory to continue production. However, this additional investment is a bit of a headache. If you want to print more copies -

You have to pay more!

But where does this money come from?

Publishing books doesn’t mean that when you buy a book, the profit from it will be immediately deposited into your account. There is a payback cycle, for example:

If you sell a book today and deduct the net profit of 10 yuan from the distribution among all parties, this profit of 10 yuan must first be reviewed by the tax department. After the tax is deducted and it is confirmed that this is legal income, the finance department will do the statistics and it will be credited to your account on the 15th of next month or the middle of the next month.

In other words, it will take two to three months for the funds to flow back.

Yang Shuman was very clear about the flow of funds in Jiang Hai's body. The three million invested in the early stage was almost all his labor remuneration in the first two months.

In such a tight time, where could Jiang Haishang raise such a huge amount of funds to invest in the printing factory for more printing?

"Otherwise, let's wait a little longer and wait for the funds to flow back." Just as Yang Shuman was worried about Jiang Hai, the message she had edited had not yet been sent out.

The next moment, I received a reply from Jiang Hai:
"Print as usual, don't worry about the money."

"I'll figure it out"

Looking at the current literary world, there are actually relatively few books that tell tragedies, especially realistic tragedies.

At least, from today's big framework -

It seems that there are few writers who can write a good work on the theme of "tragedy" for him?
Do you think there have been any writers in the past who could write a good tragedy?

Of course there is.

Mr. Lu Xun, who is known as the "soul of the Chinese nation" and the "founder of modern Chinese literature", is extremely good at using the sharpest words to pierce people's hearts, and then awaken the numbness of the people of that era through the tragic world depicted in his pen.

At the beginning of the founding of New China, a group of outstanding literary patriots emerged.

Among them, Mr. Lao She, who is known as the "People's Artist", is the one whose understanding of tragedy can be regarded as the epitome of modern literature!
Whether it is his ironic "Teahouse" or "Camel Xiangzi" which seems to be a story of struggle but actually tells a story of a cannibalistic society, the tragic stories or tragic characters created in these works -

Even after half a century, it is still impressive!

Perhaps, it is precisely because the modern literary world is too brilliant and has burned too much light of "literary luck", which has led to the decline of talents in the contemporary literary world.

Looking at the current literary world, it seems that there are really many writers who can write tragedy, especially realistic tragedy, well?
It is precisely based on this situation that "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" came into being!
When the famous literary master Liu Zhenyun authenticated his real name——

"This is definitely the most soul-shaking tragedy I have ever read!"

Countless book lovers came here one after another!
Most of Liu Zhenyun’s fans and book friends are middle-aged and elderly people. This group of people——

In fact, I am not familiar with a person like Jiang Hai.

However, when we see that Mr. Liu Zhenyun, a literary master of their generation who has been active in the literary world for more than 30 years, actually praises the work of a newcomer so much?
These middle-aged book lovers and readers suddenly couldn't control themselves!

That’s right, “Xu Sanguan Selling Blood” is indeed difficult to buy, but for a considerable number of middle-aged readers who are wealthy and have status, it is not really that difficult to get a copy of “Xu Sanguan Selling Blood” to read?
The Xinhua Bookstore, which used to be relatively deserted, is surprisingly crowded with people today?

If you observe carefully, you will find that the people who came to the bookstore to buy books today are——

It's so rare that they are all middle-aged and elderly people?
If we say, according to the usual book-buying experience, these middle-aged people come to the bookstore——

Do you generally buy some supplementary teaching materials that children need for school?

But today, they did something out of character. As soon as they entered the bookstore, instead of heading towards the textbook section, they went straight to the clerk and asked:

"Do you have a copy of 'Xu Sanguan Selling Blood' for sale here?"

Xinshu Bookstore is one of the larger bookstores in China, and they have extremely strict requirements for the storage of books.

A book is only allowed to be put on the shelves in the store if the inventory reaches more than 3000 copies.

In terms of inventory, the small bookstores and newspaper shops in the community obviously cannot compare with this place.

Although books like "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" are relatively unpopular, Xinhua Bookstore can still meet the needs of this small group of middle-aged readers:

“Yes, please come over here.”

As if they were fascinated, these middle-aged men who usually rush home to take care of their wives and children after work, are rarely seen today.

I actually settled down in a bookstore?

They were not in a hurry to go home. Instead, they found a place to sit down in the reading area of ​​the bookstore.

At first, the staff didn't pay much attention, thinking that these middle-aged readers were just in a whim and wanted to find some free time to read a book and relax?
Until, slowly
Did the staff notice that something was wrong with the atmosphere?

These middle-aged readers, while flipping through their copies of "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood", seemed to be stimulated by something -

Their air pressure is very low?

Normally, when people reach middle age and experience the ups and downs of life, their temperaments will gradually become more stable?
However, these middle-aged readers not only cannot control their emotions when reading the book, but some sensitive people even get drunk when reading the book.
How could I not hold back my tears?

Can you imagine a middle-aged man who has experienced many vicissitudes of life, holding a book, and crying sadly in public?

In this scene, the staff of the bookstore not only saw a——

They even met several of them?
As if showing extreme empathy, a gentle man with gray hair and glasses wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with a tissue and sighed:
"Isn't Xu Sanguan the same me as I was thirty years ago?"

"Thirty years ago, wasn't I also the Xu Sanguan who sold blood for food?"

(End of this chapter)