The strongest brain in entertainment

Chapter 357 Enthusiastic fans
Accompanied by the editor-in-chief of Jisen Publishing House, Li Fan came to United Bookstore.

At this time, the entire floor of the 7th floor has been closed, and there is a sign "Non-staff members are not allowed to enter" at the entrance of the stairs.

Everyone walked up the stairs to the 7th floor, but saw that most of the positions on the entire floor had been cleared.

The stage has been set up. Some of the staff are moving chairs, some are adjusting microphones, and some are putting up posters... The employees on the entire floor are busy and orderly. When everyone saw Li Fan appearing, they all said:
"Teacher Li, I wish your new book a great sale!"

"Ms. Li, you are so awesome. It's the first time I heard that the pre-sale of the new book has reached more than 80 copies before it goes on sale!"

"That's right, the sale will start on time at 8 o'clock tomorrow, and you will be one of the Top 10 physical books this year!"

This is indeed the case. After two months of pre-sales, the cumulative pre-sales of "New Textual Works Collection" reached 89 copies in major bookstores across the country, online bookstores, and Giesen Publishing House.

What is the concept of 89 copies?
Today, when paper books are gradually declining and even gradually marginalized, if the cumulative sales of a single book by many physical book authors reaches 20 copies in a year, then the sales volume of this book will be phenomenal. If it can reach 30 copies, then the sales volume of this book will be phenomenal. It is a very awesome existence.

The world is developing too fast. Going back more than 10 years, physical books were still very popular at that time, and even the online novels at that time were pirated and printed into volumes. Then many students hid in the classroom with "big books" that were as thick as Xinhua Dictionary Peeking around in the corner.

That was an era when paper books were the carrier.

Fast forward to 2018, and the world has completely changed in just over 10 years!
All kinds of talented idol writers who called the wind and rain in the past, now some go to make movies, some invest, but no one writes books anymore, and they don't even have the mood to sell their feelings.

In the Huaguo book market, "People's Literature Publishing House" conducts a final statistics on the sales of physical books every year. On the official website, only four books have sold more than one million books this year.

The best-selling book this year is called "Fall to Ashes", a very powerful sci-fi work, a magical book that foreign presidents "urge" to change, of course, this is not an online work, it is purely a work among the ranks of literary masterpieces .

This book was presented to the public at the end of 2017, and won an international award in 2018, with numerous reputations.

Is it worthy of the sales of this book?188 million domestic copies. (The English version sold 115 million copies internationally.)
No.2 is "Our Family", with an annual sales volume of 120 million copies.

No.3: "Rainbow", a popular foreign work, with an annual sales volume of 110 million copies, and received numerous praises once it was released.

No.4: "Golden Age", with an annual sales volume of 103 million copies.

No. 5 sold only 35 copies, No. 630 million copies...

(Note: Certain types of special books such as textbooks are not included in the statistics.)
The cliff-like phenomenon of book sales explains many problems and shows the desolation of the publishing industry.

Li Fan's "New Textual Research Works Collection" has not yet gone on sale, and he has already pre-ordered No.10 in the Top 5 book sales this year, and there is no one else.

The editor-in-chief said: "Basically all the media have already arrived in our Spring City. Tomorrow, our Spring City will go on sale, and we will definitely get off to a good start!"

"How much do we have in stock now?" Li Fan asked.

The female assistant said: "We have printed 150 million copies for the first time, and there are still 60 copies after pre-sales. Please rest assured that the supply of goods in the whole country is sufficient!"

After learning about the detailed process and talking about some details, Li Fan waited for a big shot, Wang Han, a famous Chinese host.

Wang Han had already flown to Chuncheng, and after landing, he called Li Fan and said that he was rushing to the city.

The place where the two met was downstairs of United Bookstore.

Through the window, Li Fan saw a middle-aged man wearing gold-rimmed vintage glasses and a long down jacket. He shrank his neck and walked quickly towards United Bookstore.

"Brother Han, go upstairs quickly."

Wang Han trembled and said: "It's too cold in the Northeast, it's bone dry!"

"Brother Han, go upstairs to warm up, come with me."

Wang Han followed Li Fan to the 7th floor of United Bookstore. After exchanging pleasantries with the leaders of Jisen Publishing House and United Bookstore, he looked at the entire floor and exclaimed, "It's so big!"

There is a huge space in the media booth alone, and various eye-catching slogans are written on the posters posted on the walls, such as "A total of 89 copies have been pre-sold, who else is there?" "Idols who can't write articles" Not called a true idol" and so on.

This slogan is a bit out of line, and it is very inconsistent with the content of the book.Li Fan was also a little embarrassed when he saw these posters. He didn't quite understand whether the slogan was appropriate, but it felt weird.

Li Fan said: "Just kidding, everyone really flatters me."

"No no! From the perspective of historical development, it is normal for the scale to be several times larger."

After chatting for a while, Wang Han said he was going back to the hotel to rest, he was a little tired.

How could Li Fan let him go to the hotel?I am the host, and besides, I invited it here!

"Brother Han, you can go home with me, just don't dislike my house being too small and shabby."

"Is there a place for me at home?"

"Yes, let's go home!"

Yes, there are, three bedrooms and one living room, you can squeeze them together, Wang Han has one room, Xiaofei and Jelly have one room, parents have one room, and you can sleep on the sofa by yourself, isn't that all right?

When the two returned home, they found another wave of people in the living room.

This time it's not the leader anymore, they are all Li Fan's classmates.After everyone knew the news of Li Fan's return home, they came in groups to cheer him in advance, but when the students saw Wang Han coming to the door, it was inconvenient to disturb them, so they all left after chatting with Li Fan for a while.

"Li Fan, the new book is a hit!"

"If it doesn't sell to TOP1, you have to wear women's clothing for us, do you hear me?"

"Come on, the reputation of our entire Nineteen Middle School depends on you!"

……

After seeing off his classmates, Li Fan closed the door and found that Wang Han was sweating.

"Hey, it's too hot in your room."

"That's because Brother Han, you wear too much. You take off the cotton trousers and just wear plain trousers. For homeboys, winter in Spring City is more comfortable than summer, and they don't go out anyway, but there is no fresh air!"

Wang Han took off his thick cotton trousers, and when he re-entered the living room, he asked suspiciously, "Where's your sister, why didn't I see her?"

Li Fan also asked: "Yeah, where did my sister go to play?"

"I went to the teacher's house, your father sent it."

Li Fan was helpless, "You forced her to study again."

"She wanted to go by herself, she asked for it on her own initiative!"

Li Fan said: "Don't tease me, mom, don't force Jelly to learn this or that, it's not something she should bear at her age."

"Other people's children learn, but our children can do it if they don't? Isn't that behind? Isn't it lost at the starting line?"

Li Fan shook his head: "The starting line? How can there be a starting line in life? And who sets the starting line, is it in the mother's womb, or two, three, seven or eight years old? This is all hyped up by educational institutions.

Our Huaguo education is too deformed, Brother Han, are you right? "

Wang Han said: "We all know that education is deformed, but this is the national condition, there is no way."

……

We are chatting at home, but many places are already extremely busy at this time.

89 copies of the new book are scheduled. When the major online stores received the goods in the past two days, they packed them up and prepared to post them.

And when the bookstores just closed tonight, they immediately arranged the books in the most eye-catching positions one by one, and put the finished billboards outside the door, ready to start selling on time at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning.

Especially in the Spring City United Bookstore, as soon as the bookstore closed at night, the electronic billboards played non-stop the detailed information and precautions of the new book signing meeting tomorrow morning.

Lianhe Bookstore is located in the commercial center of the city center and is the largest bookstore in Giessen Province.

Citizens who are shopping in the commercial district will stop to watch and talk to each other when they pass by.

Strange to say, there are basically no well-known writers in Giessen Province, not even in recent decades.Not to mention writers of physical books, even rotten internet authors are not common in Giessen.

So it is conceivable that Spring City pops up a writer who ranks among the top 10 sellers in terms of pre-sales, and he is a local, and besides, this person is Li Fan. This will basically become the only thing Spring City citizens talk about these days Top news.

"Our Chuncheng City can produce great writers, I dare not think!"

"City lights, absolute city lights!"

"I heard that Jisen Satellite TV, City Channel, Spring City 1, 2, etc. will come to report live tomorrow."

……

"Li Fan's blockbuster! Which of you pre-ordered it?"

"I didn't pre-order it, and I couldn't read it, so my partner bought it."

"Can she understand?"

"Fart! If she can understand, she can choose me as her boyfriend? She just supports Li Fan!"

……

"Will you buy it tomorrow?"

"Buy it, I don't want to read it, buy it for my son! Put the book there, tell him this is his goal in life, and if he doesn't study, he will be punished!"

……

The night is getting deeper.

Outside the gate of Lianhe Book City, pedestrians gradually became rarer. When the shops were closed, the lights had already fallen, and Spring City had a good night.

Outside the gate of United Bookstore, four students suddenly came, all around 15 years old, three girls and one boy.

"It's early!"

"Let me just say, which idiot would line up in the middle of the night, just for the first book in the country? You still don't listen to me!"

"Then shall we go back to school now?"

"Does the head teacher know not to deal with us? Let's go and go to the Internet cafe for a while."

These four students are also really enthusiastic. This winter is bitingly cold, and they have to queue up to grab the first book.

After the four students left, a tender face appeared in the ATM hall next to United Bookstore, and the girl curled her lips and said, "You are the fools!"

The girl thought for a while, then immediately took out a pen and paper from her backpack, and wrote a line on it: The head of the queue is occupied, others should avoid it. If you have any questions, please enter the ATM hall on the left for consultation!

The girl found a brick, pressed the white paper at the entrance of United Bookstore, and then sneezed and entered the ATM hall again.

The enthusiasm of individual fans is really amazing.It's nothing in summer, but it's winter!

The normal opening time of United Bookstore in the morning is 8 o'clock sharp, but because of Li Fan's new book signing event, it officially opened at 6 o'clock in the morning on Christmas Day.

Because of the particularity of today, the employees are required to be on duty at 5 o'clock, and the security guards of the security company will enter the Lianhe Bookstore at 5:[-].

But they were not the first ones to come. Except for the girls in the ATM hall and the 4 students in the Internet cafe, at 4:[-], a couple came to the door.

"Honey, look!" the woman pointed to the paper under the brick at the door.

"Fuck, is there such an operation?"

The two of them glanced at the girl sitting in the corner of the ATM hall with her head buried in her knees, and were speechless for a while.

"How about we take a seat too?"

"I see it, it's so cold!"

So, the second brick was pressed against the door, and there were two more people in the ATM hall.

After another 10 minutes, a burly man came. The big man saw the two "mountain town stones" and then kicked them away. The two "notices" just flew away with the wind.

Before 5 o'clock, there were only five or six people in line, but after 5 o'clock, the queue quickly increased. Before 6 o'clock, the long line had already lined up from the entrance of United Bookstore to the end of Anda Road.

All the security personnel were in place, and the traffic department mobilized traffic police comrades to sit at various nearby intersections.

Reporters from various channels and frequencies affiliated to the Giessen Radio, Film and Television Bureau came one after another.

The location host of "Morning News" on Giesen Satellite TV: "Hello everyone, Li Fan, a famous young scholar in our province, will hold a new book release conference at 7 o'clock for the highly anticipated new book "New Textual Works Collection", and the new book will be held at 7:50 Signing session.

At this time, everyone can see through the camera that the line has reached the end of Anda Road..."

The location host of Metropolitan Channel's "News Early Knowing": "The cold wind still can't stop the fanaticism of the fans. The pre-sale of Li Fan's new book broke the historical record. Can he create another miracle? Can he set a record for the first day of the new book release? What about the sales record? Today, let's wait together!"

"We are the Voice of Traffic... The line is still increasing, increasing rapidly! Increasing violently! Increasing endlessly!"

"The crowd in line has already started to turn! From a single row to a double row... from a double row to a three row!"

……

"Hi everyone, this is Gongsu Satellite TV's "Morning News". I am now at the Xinhua Bookstore in our province. Today is the day when Li Fan's new book is on sale. You can see it, although there is still more than an hour before the sale. , but enthusiastic fans have already formed a huge queue."

……

"This is Liaoyuan Satellite TV..."

……

"Heijiang Satellite will bring you live reports..."

……

When the new book was released, fans from all over the region lined up early in the morning, and various media followed suit. At Li Fan's house, everyone got up around 4:[-], but they all crept quietly, for fear of disturbing the rest of today's only protagonist.

Li Fan had a toss up that night, but no one disturbed him, but he couldn't sleep because of tossing and turning.

He is not a saint, he can't be honored or disgraceful, when the milestone day in his life came, he lost sleep.It wasn't until 3 o'clock in the morning that he finally fell asleep.

In the living room, the hands of the quartz clock ticked to 5 o'clock, and Li Fan was instantly awakened by the sound of firecrackers.

He sat up abruptly, walked to the balcony and opened the curtains, only to see the long firecrackers on the ground outside crackling.

Dad, Mom, Jelly, Wang Han and others, as well as some residents in the community, were standing outside, covering their ears and smiling.

Before the sound of firecrackers stopped, Dad lit another box of fireworks, and the fireworks rose to the sky, illuminating the dark morning like day.

Jelly suddenly pulled out a cigarette from her father's fingers, and then quickly ran to another box of fireworks, making a gesture to light it, but was stopped by Zhang Xiaofei and carried away: "You are not a coward!"

Seeing that the curtains were drawn, Mama Li said, "Xiaofan, pack up, the car from the publishing house has arrived."

"OK!"

The curtains were closed again, and Li Fan quickly washed up. He had just brushed his teeth when the sound of firecrackers outside stopped.

10秒……20秒……1分钟后，李凡一边漱口一边合计：怎么没动静了？这也不像是8888元爆竹的气势啊，最多最多888！说好的要比萌萌家的多呢？说好的8888呢？你没8888，来个6666也行啊！
Mama Li suddenly returned home, "Xiaofan, let's go to Lianhe Bookstore for breakfast, the staff has already arranged it."

"Well, Mom, I have something to ask!"

"Say."

"Don't you talk about the 8888 yuan fireworks? What about your promise? Where's your bicycle?"

"That's all I said. It makes sense. We can't be extravagant and wasteful like Mengmeng's family. How can we live like that?"

"Hehe, so you always talk about it?" Li Fan couldn't complain.

Li Ma said: "Is what I said true?"

"Yes, it's true. You are right anyway!"

Just as Li Fan said this, he only heard the rumble of firecrackers not far from the window, and the fireworks were soaring into the sky.

Someone outside the window said: "The 13th building was released by the old Dong, let me celebrate it for you."

"Oh!" Li Fan said in his heart: Mom, look at how generous he is!

Immediately afterwards, there were fireworks blooming in the air from time to time in the community, crackling firecrackers, and the alarms of various cars that were alarmed...

At 05:30, three cars from Giesen Publishing House drove out of the community, followed by a long line of cars. I don’t know how many TV stations’ official cars, some Yuji’s rented cars, and some residents of the community went to join in the fun Private car.

Li Fan, in Chuncheng, in his hometown, has received extraordinarily strong and cordial love from the people of Chuncheng.

He loves his city even more.

(End of this chapter)