From Composer to Entertainment Superstar

"What did you say? Can you repeat it and make it clearer?" Gu Qing took a breath. He actually heard it clearly, but the content of the other person's words really made him unable to believe it.

""Dragon Babu" became a hit, sales exploded. After it was launched on major e-commerce platforms, the inventory was completely sold out in less than half an hour. In less than an hour after it went online, all the inventory in major physical bookstores was sold out. Now

They are all urging us to get books, and several of our contact numbers have been busted.”

"Then hurry up and send them the book. Didn't we print 300,000 copies for the first time?"

"It's been sent. The last batch of inventory has just been sent out. However, based on the feedback from major e-commerce platforms and bookstores, it is estimated that it will not take long, at most an hour."

"Then hurry up and print it! Do you want me to teach you how to do it?"

"No, no, no, I've already informed the printing house. It's up to Mr. Gu to decide how much more to print."

"Let's print 1 million more copies first."

"1 million? What if..."

"What a fart! I thought 1 million copies was a bit low. I don't even think about it. It's only been 2 hours since it went online, and the inventory of 300,000 copies has been gone. What's the use of 1 million copies?"

"Yes, I will notify the printing factory right away."

After hanging up the phone, Gu Qing calmed down for a moment. He finally knew what was wrong, and finally understood why the people who came to buy "Dragon Babu" later bought eight out of ten copies. These people were probably gangsters.

People buy it, otherwise it is scalpers.

Recalling the scenes of Yuan Nan and the others mocking him not long ago, and looking at the lively scene at the promotion meeting of the other three bookstores, Gu Qing shook his head and suddenly smiled.

Let you have fun while we just keep silent and make a fortune.

"I just wonder what the expressions on these three people's faces will be like when they find out the sales volume of "Tian Long Ba Bu"? It must be fun." Gu Qing thought in a wicked way.

Thinking of this, Gu Qing shouted to the staff at the scene: "Close the stall, close the stall."

"Ah? Mr. Gu, are you closing the stall so early?" A staff member was confused.

"The books are all sold out. Why don't you close the stall and stay here to bask in the sun?"

"I see that there are occasionally a lot of "Dragon Master" fans at the scene. We can bring some books from other places, and I think we can sell a lot of them."

"The inventory is all gone and what a waste of money to adjust!"

"The inventory is gone? No way? Didn't we print 300,000 copies?"

"Shh, keep a low profile. Don't say so much. Just go back and prepare for the celebration banquet. This month, the bonuses of all personnel will be doubled."

"Wow! Long live!" The staff of Huaguo Bookstore closed the stall and left amid cheers.

Yuan Nan, Zheng Hao, and Li Xi shook their heads when they saw this scene, thinking that Gu Qing had given up. They never expected that the 10,000 physical copies of "Dragon and the Eight Parts" at Huaguo Bookstore were sold out.

After all, their promotion meeting was booming, and they have only sold five or six thousand copies so far. Compared with the scene at Huaguo Bookstore, it would be great if the latter could sell a thousand copies.

What they didn't even expect was that the online and offline sales of "Dragon Movie" had exploded.

In fact, there are many people who did not expect that the sales of physical books of "Dragon and the Eight Parts" would explode.

He Wei, the manager of Tiantian Bookstore, is one of them.

Tiantian Bookstore is one of the best online bookstores in China. Generally, all physical books are sold. Because of this, the bookstore's page recommendation resources are very competitive.

Earlier, when Huaguo Book Company brought the physical book of "The Eight Parts of the Dragon" to him to discuss recommended resources for the bookstore, He Wei refused in his heart. He had learned about "The Eight Parts of the Dragon" and also knew that this novel was on the Internet

The results in the film industry are explosive, but I don't think "Dragon" will also be popular in the real world.

It's just that Huaguo Book Company is an important partner of Tiantian Bookstore. The two parties have cooperated for many years. Due to human feelings, He Wei finally gave "Tianlong Babu" a homepage promotion, which was not bad but not bad.

As for the most conspicuous recommendation page, he reserved "Beauty", "Angel", and "Midsummer". Because he is more optimistic about these three books, not the content of these three books, but Minghua, Xiaoxi and

The appeal of Qiao Jing, the three real entity bosses.

It has been proven many times before that the appeal of these three big guys is simply terrifying. No matter how good their books are, a large group of people will pay for them anyway, just like they were poisoned.

Therefore, in addition to the recommendation position, he also purchased the most three physical books, "Beautiful Beauty", "Angel", and "Midsummer", with 150,000 copies of each. However, he only purchased two copies of "Dragon Babu"

Ten thousand, this is due to human feelings, otherwise he would only want to purchase ten thousand, or choose another way of cooperation.

The so-called other way of cooperation is to sell the bookstore and let the publishing house deliver the goods. In this way of cooperation, the bookstore is actually an intermediary and can only get a small percentage of the commission. Compared with direct purchase, the profit will be much less.

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Let's put it this way, there will be two ways of cooperation between the bookstore and the publishing house. One is direct purchase and sales. The bookstore purchases the goods from the publishing house at the lowest price, and then sets its own price to sell in the bookstore. The difference between the selling price and the lowest price is the bookstore.

The profit. With this kind of cooperation, the bookstore needs to bear certain risks, but it can get a lower base price and higher profits.

The second type of cooperation is that the publishing house is responsible for pricing and shipping, and the bookstore is responsible for the sales and takes a commission. In this cooperation method, the bookstore does not need to bear any risks. It is a sure-profit business, but it does not make much money.

Generally speaking, for books that are relatively promising, bookstores will choose to purchase them from the publishing house at a low price, and then sell them at their own price. But for books that are not promising, they will choose another method.

But He Wei soon regretted it, so much so that his thigh almost broke.

He originally thought that the fans of Minghua, Xiaoxi and Qiao Jing were already crazy enough, but only after seeing the purchasing power of fans of "Dragon Movie" did he know what it means to be crazy.

At 10 o'clock, the four books "Beautiful Beauty", "Angel", "Midsummer" and "Dragon" were launched simultaneously.

In less than 5 minutes, the 1,999 copies of "Dragon Babu" he had set in stock were sold out. If it hadn't been for the consultation and complaint calls received from fans of "Dragon Babu" backstage, the entire Tiantian Bookstore would not have known about it.

But who would have thought? You know, the three books "Red Beauty", "Angel", and "Midsummer" with better and more prominent recommendation pages, the highest single sales volume at this time is only 500 copies. And these three books

Fans of the author of the book have always been called "crazy" in the physical world.

But compared with the fans of "Dragon", how can the fans of Minghua and others be considered crazy? They are nothing compared to the fans of "Dragon".

After receiving the complaint call, He Wei quickly added inventory to "Dragon Movie" again. This time he set up 1999 inventory. In less than 5 minutes, it ran out again.

"Hiss!" He Wei took a breath and added inventory to "Dragon Babu" again. This time he added 5,000 at once and watched the whole process. After 5 minutes, He Wei was stunned.

"It's gone? Is it so scary?" He Wei murmured. Not believing in evil, he added inventory to "Dragon Babu" again. This time he directly set the inventory to 9999.

10 minutes later, He Wei no longer knew how to describe his mood at this time. Because the stock of 9999 was sold out in less than 10 minutes!

"Holy shit! This is simply a bottomless pit!" Only then did He Wei know what "Dragon Babu" meant and what kind of impact it would have on the physical world.

Not only did he conquer everything in the online literary world, but he was also like a dragon crossing the river in the physical world. It should be noted that at this time, the sales volume of three physical books including "Beautiful Beauty" was only two to three thousand.

I just wanted to continue adding inventory to "Dragon Babu" and add 99,999 copies of stock at once, but suddenly I remembered that he had only purchased 20,000 copies of "Dragon Babu" before, and it seemed that now there were only 1,000 copies left in stock.

Thinking of this, He Wei quickly called the person in charge at Huaguo Bookstore, but was told that "Dragon Babu" was temporarily out of stock and was being urgently printed. However, if you need the goods, you have to wait at least two days. And the purchase price

It's not the same price as before, it has to be increased by 10% of the base price.

Two days, how much will this cost? The purchase price is still 10% higher, how much will this cost?

If he had directly purchased hundreds of thousands of books at the beginning, and Tiantian Bookstore had them in stock these two days when others were out of stock, he would have probably made tens of millions!

No wonder He Wei regretted it so much that he almost broke his leg!

Fortunately, he had read the three books of "The Beauty" before. Compared with "The Eight Parts of the Dragon", these three books were nothing.

I call you blind and blind! Now it’s better, you picked up the sesame seeds and lost the watermelon, right?

Such a situation is by no means rare in Tiantian Bookstore. Several other online bookstore platforms have also encountered the same situation. The person in charge of the bookstore regretted it so much that he wanted to kill himself after buying a piece of tofu.

The person in charge of the bookstore tried to flirt with people from Huaguo Book Company to see if they could get the goods first and if they could get the goods at the previous lowest price, but they were all rejected.

Feelings? Before "Dragon" was officially launched, you were unwilling to buy more books. Why didn't you talk about feelings at that time? Now that "Dragon" has become popular, you suddenly think of feelings?

How can there be such a good thing in the world?

In short, Huaguo Book Company refused all requests from these bookstores without hesitation.

Online bookstores are like this, and offline bookstores are actually not much better.

Magic City Origin Bookstore is a typical example.

Origin Bookstore is the largest bookstore in the Magic City. Huaguo Bookstore put a lot of effort into distributing "The Eight Parts of the Dragon" to the Origin Bookstore. Although the negotiation was finally settled, the Origin Bookstore was only willing to purchase 10,000 copies of "The Eight Parts of the Dragon".

Eight".

As for the three books "Beauty", Origin Bookstore directly purchased 50,000 copies. The reason is similar to what He Wei thought. Compared with "Dragon", Cai Hu, the owner of Origin Bookstore, is more optimistic about the three books "Beauty".

, the most important thing is not to mention the purchase, but also put the three books in the most conspicuous position.

Then, Cai Hu also regretted it so much that he almost broke his thigh.

At ten o'clock, as soon as the bookstore opened, a large group of people poured in. Indeed, many of them were fans of Minghua's big business people. But compared with the fans of "Dragon Babu", these big business people from Minghua

The book fans are simply nothing.

After Minghua's book fans came in, they picked up the books "Beautiful Beauty" and tried to read them. About one-third of them paid, and two-thirds chose to leave.

As a fan of "The Eight Parts of the Dragon", the general situation is like this. There are very few people who come in at one time, but there is an endless stream, and everyone enters in a hurry, and after finding the place where "The Eight Parts of the Dragon" is placed,

Pick up one or several volumes of "The Eight Parts of the Dragon", no need to try it out, just pay without any hesitation, and then leave the bookstore in a hurry.

As long as you come here for "Tian Long Ba Bu", the payment rate is actually an astonishing 100%!

In less than an hour, tens of thousands of copies of "Dragon Babu" were sold out!

too crazy!

This is not an online bookstore, but an offline physical bookstore!

What does it mean that tens of thousands of copies of "Dragon Babu" were sold out in less than an hour? It means that in less than an hour, excluding some people who bought several copies of "Dragon Babu" at one time, at least eight or nine

Thousands of fans of "Dragon and the Eight Parts" stepped into Origin Bookstore.

Eight or nine thousand!

This is a lot of traffic!

Moreover, there was an endless stream of book fans who came to buy the physical book of "The Eight Parts of the Dragon". After Cai Hu discovered that there was not much stock of "The Eight Parts of the Dragon", he had already contacted Huaguo Book Company and managed to get another 20,000 copies.

The supply is good, but the price is 10% higher than before.

Then, after these 20,000 copies of "Dragon and the Eight Parts" arrived at Origin Bookstore, they were sold out in less than two hours. Afterwards, Cai Hu contacted Huaguo Bookstore. No matter what he said, he couldn't get the goods and had to wait two days.

Cai Hu contacted other bookstore owners and learned that other bookstores had encountered the same situation and could not get supplies, and the online bookstores had no supplies. Only then did he believe that Huaguo Bookstore really had no inventory.

Only then did he give up.

But after giving up, Cai Hu regretted it very much!

It should be noted that when Huaguo Book Company contacted him before, it hoped that he could swallow up 100,000 copies of the supply. The base price given was still very low, but he refused. If he had chosen to agree before, then the ultra-low base price would be

Plus there are rare things to live in, how much money can you make from this!

Didn’t you see that there is already a commotion about the "Dragon" book memes outside because you can't buy the physical book of "Dragon"?

Yes, fans of "Dragon" are already making a fuss!

After visiting all online bookstores and finding that physical books of "Dragon Babu" could not be purchased in offline bookstores, fans of "Dragon Babu" have already started to make a fuss.

Big bookstores like Yuanyuan were almost blocked, and the post bar and book review section of "Dragon" were occupied by dissatisfied posts.

"What's going on? I've visited all the online bookstores and all the offline bookstores in Magic City, but I can't buy a copy of "Dragon Babu"? Tell me what's going on!"

"Me too! Damn it! Didn't you say that very few people went to the on-site promotion meeting? There were people who posted messages asking for support before, but this is the result?"

"I also saw that someone asked for support during the on-site promotion meeting, so I took my time to do what I was doing. But when I finished what I was doing, I discovered that "The Eight Parts of the Dragon" was already hard to find.

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"It's not like those turtle grandsons deliberately misled us, right? Want to monopolize "Dragon Babu"?" Someone said this.

Then, the book fans who had kindly supported "Dragon" were almost beaten to death, and they were so frightened that they quickly came out to respond.

"No! There are so many copies of "Dragon", how could we possibly finish them all? We were really afraid that "Dragon" would not be sold and we would be beaten by the hot books "The Beauty"."

"That's right, don't slander us. For the purpose of supporting "Dragon Babu", I only bought 5 copies."

"I have 4 copies."

"I have 8 copies!"

"Damn it, you're slandering us! It's hard to find a book for us, but you bought so many copies by yourself. Hurry up and contribute."

"Brothers who have extra books on hand, I am willing to buy them from you at a high price. The price is easy to negotiate."

"If you are willing to sell, you can contact me, my phone number is..."

Of course some people are willing to sell it, but more people say they don't want to sell it and the book has already been given away.

"I think you have picked the wrong person, right? Shouldn't Huaguo Book Company be more responsible for taking the blame? "Dragon Babu" disappeared so quickly, they must not have printed many copies, right?"

"I know this. I happen to have a friend who works at Hua Guo Book Company. I won't say who he is, so I won't say who he is. I heard from him that the first printing of "The Eight Parts of the Dragon" was 300,000 copies."

"Only 300,000 copies? No wonder!"

"The official subscription of "The Eight Parts of the Dragon" alone is 180,000, and Huaguo Book Company has only printed 300,000 copies for the first time? Damn it! Who are you looking down on!"

As soon as this information came out, the official WeChat account of Huaguo Book Company was immediately exploded. The bottom was full of "300,000 copies of someone's remarks about looking down on someone." It made Gu Qing and others dumbfounded.

The topic "Who do you look down upon with 300,000 copies" has also become a hot search topic.

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