Chapter 211 Internet Uproar
Of course, this matter is not important. What is important is that on March 10, after more than half a month of nationwide offline promotion, the three books were put in bookstores.
[Gu Lu has always been a writer I admire. He can be rated as an excellent story writer, but what surprises me most is that some unexpected things will suddenly appear in him. This is what "Mr. Holmes" is like. He has taken something different from the traditional path of mystery novels. ]——Chief Editor of Xinxing Publishing House
[For many people, the name Gu Lu is synonymous with genius. After watching "Yesterday in the Park" you will understand why he is a genius! ] Editor-in-chief of New Youth Literature Publishing House
[Some people often comment that the writing style of "The Little Prince" is very poor, but in fact Gu Lu's writing style is very good. He does not follow common sense and infer writing habits and language. It has reached an extreme and formed a unique personal style, which changes along with the language style of the work. Just like "Bingguo" is youth literature, the language style of the novel is friendly, smooth and youthful. Gu Lu's most praised The thing is, he never creates dyslexia for readers. ]President of Children's Literature Publishing House
The endorsement of the editors-in-chief of two publishing houses and the president of one publishing house, and more importantly, the resources of the three publishing houses are combined into one, which is really a big force.
There is even an overwhelming feeling -
The overwhelming feeling is that of Mao Sanxiu. His good brother Bianlong has published a book, so I plan to go to the Sanlian Bookstore near my home to buy a copy.
The name Bian Long must be unfamiliar to most people. It was the two mystery writers who accompanied Gu Lu when he attended the 10th anniversary offline banquet of Grandma Forum. One was Mao Sanxiang and the other It is the great Han Bianlong of Qilu.
This bookstore is located in a small shopping mall. When I went up the stairs, I saw a monitor with Gu Lu's embarrassing video on it.
Then as soon as Mao Sanxiu arrived at Sanlian Bookstore, he saw a promotional poster at the door [Genius writer Gu Lu, three new books are out! ] Among them, the font size of the two characters "Gu Lu" is particularly large.
A video and a poster.
"Three books? Xiao Gu is so prosperous!" Mao Sanhuo sighed.
I still want to support my little brother, so Mao Sanxiu bought a set. The prices for buying the three books individually are: 26, 25, and 28, and the three books together cost 80 yuan.
"Wait a minute, isn't this right? I bought three books separately, and the total is only 79 yuan. I bought a set for Mao. Not only is it not cheaper, but it is actually a dollar more expensive." Mao Sanxiu calculated. Okay, come to your senses when you pay.
Each book is published by a different publisher, so there is no "neat beauty" of a traditional set of books. To use an analogy, the set of Harry Potter books that Gu Lu bought a long time ago not only had a half-packed book box, but also had seven books arranged in order, and the spines could also form a pattern. This is neat and beautiful.
“Because if you buy a set, there will be some gifts.” The salesperson said, “First is a cloth bag for the little prince, and then a gel pen for Mr. Holmes.”
The cloth bag is It was a very ordinary little bag with a pattern of the little prince watching the sunset next to the fox printed on the surface. In the eyes of Mao Sanxiu, Holmes's gel pen was even more deceptive. The body of the pen was black, and only the pen had Holmes' rickets stamped on it. Silhouette.
"Then I don't want these gifts, can you give me a cheaper one?" Mao Sanhuang didn't care at all about this little trick used by publishing houses to stimulate sales. He just cheated with these two little things. Just a kid.
“If you don’t want gifts, it’s 75 yuan per set.” The salesperson answered fluently.
It was equivalent to a discount of four yuan. Mao Sanxiu was satisfied with the purchase, and the salesperson was also very satisfied, because the small cloth bag and gel pen cost 8 yuan and 5 yuan each. Many girls would buy it, and they were not worried about sales, so the salesperson Very satisfied too.
"Xiao Gu is really going to become a famous writer." Mao Sanhuo was very envious. Gu Lu's three new books were placed in a more conspicuous position than the little prince.
"The Little Prince" is placed in front of the cashier. In fact, people who often go to bookstores should know that the display in bookstores is generally divided into:
Store recommendations, bestseller recommendations, special section columns, In the deep section and next to the cashier.
The most precious thing is of course the store recommendation, which is the first place readers see after getting started. This place usually displays high-profit books and new book recommendations.
As for the cashier recommendations, after iterative updates to the bookstore model, they will slowly disappear. Anyway, at the time point when Gu Lu traveled through, the cashier counters were all filled with cultural and creative products. "When new books are put on the shelves, they can be placed in the recommended positions in the store." Mao Sanxiu is an insider. He knows very well that with so many new books on the shelves every month, only less than twenty books can be placed in this position. With connections and fame, Both are indispensable.
Anyway, Mao Sanxiu’s own books are all listed in the special section.
"Hey, look at my memory, I almost forgot." Mao Sanxiu had just walked to the door of the bookstore when he suddenly remembered that he hadn't bought the book by his good friend Bian Long.
Turn around and go back to the three bookshelves in the bookstore that are dedicated to mystery books. This is the special section. After a long search, Mao Sanxiu found Bian Long's novel.
Do you want to say that Cat Three is jealous? Of course it was a bit, but more of a blessing, mainly because the gap between him and Gu Lu was too big to catch up.
On the second day of sales, look at the data released by three publishing houses.
On the first day, the three books sold a total of 180,000 copies nationwide!
Among them, "Mr. Holmes" has the highest sales volume, with 80,000 copies. It has accumulated a lot of popularity because it was serialized in magazines. Many readers will buy books after reading the serial version, which is convenient for revisiting or collecting.
Compared with "The Little Prince", which sold just over 5,000 copies on its first day, "Yesterday in the Park", the worst of the three books, sold more than 30,000 copies.
This also fully shows that the sales of short story collections in China are really poor, or that even people who read books are not in the habit of reading short story collections. Maybe they think short stories should be read in magazines.
Such a high sales volume, even President Jian never thought about it. His expectation for Hingguo was about 100,000 copies, but he never thought that it would be almost 60,000 copies on the first day.
"At present, it is certain that the three books will exceed 150,000 yuan, which means that Xiao Gu has four best-selling books before he is seventeen years old." President Jian sighed, At the same time, he also heard clearly that it was related to the joint sales of three books. Many readers originally only wanted to buy one, but somehow ended up buying three.
Gu Lu is currently famous as a genius writer, basically as famous as the Little Prince, so his basic reputation is already like this. No matter what he writes, there will be readers to support him.
Just look at the online discussion, it is also very popular online!
Because of Gu Lu's "cross-subject" all-round writing, it has aroused heated discussions.
"The Big Devil in "New Reading", I still remember his article Iron Pillar, that pillar growing out of the planet! I can't understand that Iron Pillar and the Little Prince are actually written by the same author. "
"Story club, cutting-edge reading, time mystery, juvenile literature and science fiction world, are there any omissions in my statistics?"
"Is there any omission? Gu Lu is still in Neon. There was an article serialized in Fu Wen Zhi, and this is the advertisement I saw in "Story Club". "The two parts of the series of support in the science fiction world surprised me. Gu Lu is really young and mature."
"6666, "Becoming a Writer from Storytelling Meeting" I feel that Gu Lu's experience can be made into a TV show."
(End of this chapter)