Chapter 418 "The Eight Parts of the Dragon" Luoyang Zhigui
"The Eight Parts of the Dragon" is published in a set of five books, and the total price of 150 is actually not expensive.
With the great success of "Shading the Sky" and the serialization of "Dragon Babu" on the Qiyue website, which has continuously broken the record of martial arts novels, the conditions offered by major publishing houses are very favorable.
In the end, Qiyue officially contacted Modu Publishing House and offered a 12% royalty, and then we won the publishing rights.
Generally for published books, the author’s royalties range from 3% to 8%.
But royalties also depend on the person. For example, for literary tycoon Su Xinghai, a 15% royalty is basic, and there are a lot of conditions.
Promising to get 12% is already a very sincere offer.
After all, the audience for online literature is very different from the audience for physical books.
There have been online literature publications in the past, but they were mostly successful at making a profit at a loss.
That is to say, he can only promise 12% of the royalties. According to the price of 150, for every set of "Dragon Babu" sold, he can get 18 yuan of royalties. The first batch of 50 Ten thousand sets, with a royalty of 9 million.
As soon as the news of the scarves came out, countless netizens forwarded it. One thousand sets is not a small amount. According to the pricing, this can give away 150,000 yuan.
“This wave of promises is really generous!”
“150,000! Without blinking an eye!”
“Awesome, hurry up and forward it.”
Netizens forwarded it and hurried to the bookstore to buy it.
The first batch of 500,000 sets may seem like a lot, but with so many martial arts fans, it might not be enough.
Lao Zhang is a big fan of martial arts. He is quite picky and only listens to Zhou Hongyuan, because he is synonymous with martial arts songs.
Watching TV, he only watches martial arts TV.
When it comes to novels, he only reads "Dragon", because this novel is the pinnacle of serious martial arts.
Even for "Dragon Babu", he even learned how to use Qiyue.com to read novels.
Now that he heard it was published, he immediately ran to the bookstore.
As soon as he entered the door, Lao Zhang shouted, "Bring me a set of "Dragon Babu"!"
"I'm sorry, it's out of stock?"
? ? ?
Lao Zhang looked confused, "Didn't it just come out? Why is it out of stock?"
The waiter looked helpless and pointed to the long queue in the bookstore: "They are all here to buy "Dragon Movie"."
Lao Zhang then noticed that there was a group of people queuing in the bookstore.
"What a shabby bookstore, I'll buy it from another store!" Lao Zhang dropped a word and hurried out of the bookstore.
However, before he entered the next bookstore, he saw a group of people walking out dejectedly: "What a shabby bookstore, they don't even have "Dragon Babu"!"
Old Zhang stopped him. One person: "Brother, doesn't this store also have "Dragon Movie"?"
"Hey, they said they're sold out!"
Lao Zhang was in a mess, this is their biggest bookstore!
No, I have to find another bookstore.
Lao Zhang went to seven or eight bookstores in a row before grabbing a set, and the boss said it was the last set.
Lao Zhang was very happy. Fortunately, he knew this relatively remote bookstore, otherwise he really wouldn't be able to buy "Dragon Babu" today.
After returning home, Lao Zhang happily opened the book and couldn't wait to read it.
Reading on a mobile phone is convenient, but it doesn’t feel as good as a paper book.
The texture of paper books and the fragrance of ink cannot be compared to e-books. In terms of experience, paper books are still better.
After reading a book for a while, Lao Zhang turned on his phone and watched short videos.
"Urgent, urgent, brothers, where is the bookstore that still has "Dragon Babu"?"
"I'm so speechless. I've been to all the bookstores in this small city, but I can't even buy a set of "Dragon Babu"."
"It's outrageous. Didn't you say 500,000 sets? Why, what? Can’t even buy it?”
The Internet is full of complaints about not being able to buy books.
Lao Zhang was happy. Fortunately, he was smart, otherwise he would have joined the army of complaints.
"Hey, I grabbed a set. It is said to be our last set."
"Damn, I'm envious!"
"I want it too!"
"I'm convinced, there's no stock in every store, what are you doing!"
Online discussion It’s so popular that it even became a hot search topic.
#The book "Dragon and the Eight Parts" is hard to find. Is the real-life version of Luoyang paper expensive?
#Is it hunger marketing or is it really so popular?
Netizens complained everywhere, and many book fans had no choice but to find another way.
“Brothers, there is a lottery for the Promise scarf, one thousand sets, go and try your luck!”
Since you can’t buy it, it’s better to take a chance on your luck, so the number of forwarded comments on the Promise scarf skyrocketed. , it didn’t take long to get tens of thousands of retweets.
If you just give away a few or dozens of sets, netizens will not be so enthusiastic. The winning rate is too low to arouse interest in the lottery, but a thousand sets is different. The winning rate is not low. .
However, as the number of participants increases, the winning rate gradually drops to 1%.
Netizens began to complain again: "Why are there so many people participating? Please give me the opportunity! Please!"
"I am a star of "Dragon Babu" Fans, let me win one set!”
Xu Nuo also saw the news and felt a little puzzled. 500,000 sets should not be sold out at once.
He called the publishing house, and the publishing house said that they allocate supplies to bookstores based on the readers officially provided by Qiyue.com. The readers are mainly from first- and second-tier cities, and the third- and fourth-tier cities are allocated less. And it’s just the first batch. The second batch of books is still in transit and will arrive in a few days. Xu Nuo hung up the phone and found that most of the netizens who complained were from third- and fourth-tier cities, and there were very few netizens from first- and second-tier cities. It seemed that it was exactly what the publisher said.
At this time, some netizens commented.
“The Xinhua Bookstore in Xinhua City, Xinhua City, has stock, come quickly!”
“The Jingcheng Bookstore has stock!”
“Jiangcheng Bookstore has stock! There aren’t many left!”
"Brother, please purchase on my behalf. I'll pay for the shipping!"
"I want it too!"
"I'll pay 200! I'll pay for the shipping!"
"Add me one ! ”
For a time, many netizens asked netizens to help them purchase, and even some scalpers were born.
There's nothing we can do about this thing.
Where there is profit, there are scalpers.
The publishing house was also confused.
There are scalpers who buy concert tickets, there are scalpers who buy hospital registrations, and there are scalpers who buy autographed books by some famous authors.
But "Dragon" is different.
You must know that this time there are 500,000 sets, without any signatures, and there is no limit on the number of sets to purchase. Even if the books are temporarily out of stock, the second batch of books is already on the way. Are these readers so anxious?
Xu Nuo was also very puzzled, and there were voices on the Internet saying that he was working with publishing houses to engage in "hunger marketing."
This made him speechless. He was hungry for marketing. He had no choice but to send out another scarf: "The first batch of "Dragon Babu" was mainly concentrated in first- and second-tier cities, and the volume in other places was relatively small. But don’t worry, wait a moment, the second batch will arrive in at most three days.”
Readers were unhappy, “We’ll take a look now!”
“Wait. Three days? Impossible. I have already driven to Jiangcheng and I have to buy one today.”
Readers are very stubborn. Some people drive hundreds of kilometers just to get a set of "Dragon Babu". Some people are willing to pay an extra 100 yuan just to see this set of books for the first time.
However, what shocked them was that when they arrived at the address provided by netizens, the bookstore said that they were late and all were sold out.
“Holy shit, it’s only been an hour and you’ve already sold out?”
Some readers didn’t believe it and suspected they were trying to raise the price.
“Can I add some money?”
"It's really gone. Today we are all buying "Dragon Babu"."
"Where's the next batch? I'll reserve the next batch!"
The clerk said: "Sorry, I'm leaving. One batch has been reserved."
"Impossible!"
"Look, this is the reservation list." The clerk took out a reservation book with ease.
The reader flipped through it casually and felt numb. All the books in the register were filled with people who had made reservations for "The Eight Parts of the Dragon".
And things like this are happening all over the country.
For the first time, the publishing house has experienced the influence of top-notch + top-notch works.
According to rough statistics, nearly 200,000 units were sold on the first day, which was the amount sold even though most areas were out of stock.
According to feedback from major dealers, the number of people who have pre-ordered is beyond imagination, and this batch of books may not last two days.
The publishing house said it was completely incomprehensible and was greatly shocked.
The publishing house was confused and called Xu Nuo: "500,000 copies of "The Eight Parts of the Dragon" may not be enough!"
In general book publishing, even if the sales are very promising, the first printing There are only about 100,000 sets. The first printing of "Dragon Movie" is 500,000 sets. After many evaluations, I felt that it had the strength, so I boldly tried it.
No one expected that 500,000 units would not last three days!
“Then let’s print it!”
"It takes time to print more copies." The publisher was a little troubled.
Xu Nuo comforted him: "It's okay, Qiyue.com also has electronic versions that you can read."
When the publishing house heard this, good guy, every time Qiyue.com has one more reader, the publishing house will I might be able to sell one less set of books. Can I tolerate this?
Although the publishing house cooperates with Qiyue.com, they are also in a competitive relationship.
Many readers may not read the physical book after reading the electronic version.
Must go all out to print!
"We will print another 500,000 sets!" the publisher gritted his teeth.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with Xu Nuo. This is "Dragon Babu", the most awesome book by Mr. Jin Yong. Over the years, the cumulative sales have exceeded tens of millions, and now it has sold one million copies. It's so easy.
After deciding to print more copies, Xu Nuo updated another scarf: "The latest news is that Modu Publishing House has decided to print 500,000 more copies of "Dragon Babu". Readers who can't wait can go to Qiyue.com .”
Qiyue.com was extremely happy.
The most successful thing they have done in the past two years is the signing of the contract. "Shading the Sky" has continuously broken records. Making money is still a trivial matter. The important thing is that he has improved the status of Internet article authors a lot.
In the past, many people mentioned Internet article authors and subconsciously thought that they were "not popular" and "not doing their jobs properly." However, Nuoyan writes Internet articles as a master composer, which has reversed this view to a certain extent.
"Dragon Babu" has been praised by many professors, and online articles have begun to be taken seriously.
Qiyue.com has also organized activities here. Readers who have fully subscribed to "Dragon Babu" can participate in the lottery for peripherals and physical books. Many readers who cannot buy the book specially go to Qiyue.com to subscribe. It was very lively while trying my luck while reading the electronic version.
500,000 sets of books were sold out in three days, and it was Saturday again.
The final episode of the regular season of "The Masked Singer" begins.
(End of this chapter)