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Chapter 133 Sales Explosion

Cao Sheng replied to all three emails.

Wang Jing urged him to send the new book to Under the Banyan Tree as soon as possible, and he replied: "Okay, I will send it in a few days."

Chang Qingshu asked him how many manuscripts he had on hand and what brand of mobile phone he liked.

He replied: "There are only over 40,000 manuscripts in stock at the moment. If you are willing to wait, I will give you the second episode manuscript in a few days. Why are you asking me what brand of mobile phone I like? Ha, are you going to give me one?"

He just asked the last sentence casually. He didn't think Chang Qingshu would give him a mobile phone. After all, he was not a beauty, and neither was Chang Qingshu. They were of the same sex, so why would he give him a mobile phone?
In this regard, he is very stubborn about gender.

I will never go after men just because they know them.

In the email, Lin Baohui said that "Living with a Flight Attendant" was about to be released, and asked him to guess the sales volume, and said that there would be a prize if he guessed correctly.

He only replied: "If you guess correctly, what's the reward?"

……

After coming back from school in the afternoon, he made a cup of tea and went straight to the study on the second floor.

Dinner has already been eaten in the school cafeteria.

Since Chang Qingshu said that many readers in Taiwan were asking him to submit his manuscript for the second volume, he planned to finish the manuscript in the next few days and complete the word count for the second volume as soon as possible.

It's not just about the money.

More importantly, he didn't want to disappoint his readers.

Anyway, the manuscript for the second episode already has more than 40,000 words. If I write another 20,000 words, it will be enough.

Twenty thousand words may take a long time for a novice to write.

But for him, there wasn't much.

It would certainly be difficult for him to code it out within one day, but it would not be difficult to produce 20,000 to 30,000 words in two or three days.

This book has passed the most difficult stage of writing.

Every time I start a new book, the hardest part to write is always the first few tens of thousands of words.

At least, that's how he feels.

Now that the first volume has been published, and the second volume has already been written with more than 40,000 words, how difficult would it be to write more than 20,000 words based on the outline and detailed outline?
In front of the computer.

Cao Sheng started to rush to finish his manuscript.

He stared at the computer screen calmly, and his hands tapped the keyboard intermittently like a convulsion. When he tapped, he did so at a very fast speed.

But after knocking continuously for a while, the hands will stop for a while.

This is him thinking about the plot.

Once the thoughts are sorted out, my hands will start typing quickly on the keyboard like crazy.

Every time you type, the cursor in the document will jump to words one after another.

However, sometimes, the speed at which the document responds cannot keep up with his typing speed, and he needs to slow down a bit and wait.

Every time he saw this situation, he looked a little helpless.

The computer configuration these days is too low, and with his hand speed, the computer can hardly respond.

If we encounter those tentacle monsters in the original time and space that are famous for their hand speed, won’t the system crash?

He was in rush mode and had no distractions.

He had experienced this kind of rush to finish manuscripts many times before his rebirth.

Because the works rarely produce results.

So, every time his new book performed a little better and was put on the shelves, he would update it rapidly for a period of time, updating 10,000 words every day, and keep up the pace for a while until he could no longer write.

This is his way of giving back to his fans.

It is also to earn some royalties as soon as possible and make up for the losses.

Otherwise, when the next thing fails, your wallet won’t be able to hold on.

Because of his experience in writing rapidly, he was not panicked at all when he entered the rush mode. He still maintained the habit of pausing for a moment after writing each paragraph to organize his thoughts before continuing writing.

This is his experience in ensuring the quality of his work while rushing to finish it.

Quality cannot be sacrificed for speed.

Otherwise, the number of words released will be meaningless.

He didn't stop until after midnight.

Because I have class tomorrow.

Can't stay up late.

After saving the third chapter he had coded tonight and closing the document, he remembered to pick up the cup and take a sip of tea.

The three chapters I wrote tonight have a total of more than 10,000 words.

But it’s just a first draft, and I’ll have to spend at least two more hours polishing and revising it before I can actually show it to readers.

Putting down the teacup, he didn't rush to turn off the computer.

Thinking of the three emails he had replied to Wang Jing, Chang Qingshu and Lin Baohui at noon, he checked his mailbox to see if they had replied again.

He actually replied.

Wang Jing: "Mr. Cao, you said it will be sent out in a few days. How many days is that? Can you give me an exact number of days? I can report to Mr. Zhu."

Cao Sheng thought that after he sent the manuscript of the second episode to Chang Qingshu, Xinchang should agree to let him publish the first few chapters of "The Tomb of the Gods".

Thinking of this, he replied to Wang Jing: "Five days at the latest."

Evergreen replied: "Okay, then we'll wait for you for a few days. You don't have to be too anxious. It's okay to wait a few more days. As for the cell phone, I don't have the money to give you one, but our president does. The president has said that he will give you a cell phone personally so that we can contact each other more easily. Just tell me what brand you like! Think of a good one. Don't save money for our president. He has a lot of money! Haha."

Cao Sheng was a little surprised.

The president of Xinchang wants to give me a mobile phone?
This president is capable!

Next time if I say my computer is not working well, will he give me another one?
He laughed at this shameless thought.

Of course he wouldn't really do that, as he couldn't afford to lose face.

He has not bought a mobile phone yet, just because he thinks that mobile phones are too expensive and have too low configuration. Moreover, few of his relatives, friends and classmates have mobile phones. He is the only one with a mobile phone, who can he call?
Called the publishing house?

He usually doesn't have anything to contact the publishing house for, so he really bought a mobile phone just to make it easier for the publishing house to contact him.

Therefore, he did not have a strong desire to buy a mobile phone.

But if someone gave it to him for free, he would still accept it.

After a moment of hesitation, he replied to Evergreen: "In that case, I won't be polite. It doesn't matter what brand it is, as long as it can make calls and send messages. Just help me pick one. By the way, thank your president for me."

Wang Jing and Chang Qingshu both replied to his emails, but Lin Baohui has not responded yet.

……

Print!

Print!

After seeing people lining up to buy "God's Tomb" at many bookstores in Taiwan, Xinchang made a decisive decision to print more copies.

But it seems they are still late in printing.

Early this morning, many bookstores called to say that their copies of "God's Tomb" had been sold out, and asked Xinchang to send a batch of "God's Tomb" over as soon as possible.

The operator was so tired of answering calls that his throat gradually became dry and hoarse.

They haven't experienced such a situation for a long time.

When the first episode of "I Want to Become an Immortal" was first released, the market reaction was quite calm, because Zhongyuan Yidianhui was unknown at that time.

"I Want to Become an Immortal", which had just been released, was a pure new book by a new author.

Many readers will not even linger on this book for a second when they glance at it. Only some bored readers are interested in taking it off the bookshelf and flipping through it.

Only when your interest is aroused will you be willing to pay for it.

Most of the time, owners of rental bookstores buy some and rent them out to readers.

It can be said that rental bookstores were the main force in purchasing the first episode of I Want to Become an Immortal.

It was also the rental bookstore that slowly accumulated the first batch of readers for this book.

Then these readers spread the word of the book intentionally or unintentionally, attracting more and more readers to read the book.

By the time the second volume was released, the main force buying books shifted from rental bookstores to readers.

As for the subsequent high sales of this book, why weren’t Xinchang’s operators very busy?

That’s because the sales of “I Want to Become an Immortal” increased little by little.

Although the monthly increase is quite large, Xinchang's marketing department can predict next month's sales based on the monthly sales increase of this book.

Therefore, even when the sales of "I Want to Become a Fairy" topped the sales charts, Xinchang's operators were not too busy.

But "God's Tomb" is different.

Although my boss, review editor and others think the quality of this book is very good, there should be no problem.

But conservatism is the instinct of these people.

In order to avoid making mistakes and causing losses to the company, the first batch of printed copies of the first volume of "God's Tomb" was only 30,000 copies.

This quantity is the result of them increasing the quantity again and again based on the reputation of Zhongyuan Yidianhui.

Generally, for a new work, the first print run of the first volume is only two to three thousand copies.

However, 30,000 volumes seemed like a lot.

But some of them will be distributed to booksellers in Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore and other places.

Those places are their market areas.

The marketing department felt that the first print run of 30,000 copies should be enough for the market to digest for some time.

No matter how famous Zhongyuan Yidianhui is, readers will not be as crazy about buying his new book as they were about buying the popular "I Want to Become an Immortal" when it is just released.

result……

Readers slapped them in the face with their actions.

Let them understand what hunger and thirst are, and what it means to be blessed by a long drought.

For many readers, although various large and small publishing houses have recently published many new books by new authors, at first glance, it seems that there are endless works to read.

But how can a book lover who has seen the eagle look down on the little bird on the branch?
Readers who have read "I Want to Become an Immortal", even if they have read other novels recently, it is because they are out of books and have to settle for second best.

When "I Want to Become an Immortal" was completed, the title and release date of the new book were announced.

Since then, countless book fans have been waiting for this new book.

I've been waiting impatiently.

I wanted to rush into Xinchang's warehouse and find out whether "God's Tomb" had been printed.
Under such circumstances, Xinchang thought that the first print run of 30,000 copies would take some time for the market to digest, like a piece of meat thrown into a pack of wolves.

Who will get enough to share?

It’s not enough to fill everyone’s teeth.

That morning, the head of the marketing department quickly received news that, according to the data compiled by the operators, the purchase quantity required by various bookstores, large and small, would not be enough even if they shipped out all the stock of "God's Tomb" in their warehouses.

Far from enough!

Because booksellers from Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore and other places also called this morning to request goods.

And they are all in a hurry.

So what can be done?

We can only print more, print more as much as possible.

The same morning.

"Living with a Stewardess", published by Adventurer, has begun to be distributed and has appeared on the shelves of bookstores of all sizes.

Appeared in the field of vision of some readers.

(End of this chapter)