What should I do if the system forces me to copy books?

After Manager Lai made three or four phone calls in a row, they all returned in a hurry. If the relationship was good, maybe he would exchange a few words. If the relationship was not good, he just asked for a batch of "Dragon Clan" to be rescued by Jianghu. It didn't take a minute for the other party to hang up the phone directly.

To put it simply, it's one sentence: you can ask for other books, but you can't ask for "Dragon Race"!

At the beginning, he didn't realize the seriousness of the matter, and he didn't even know that his Xinhua Bookstore located in the University District could sell out the [-] copies of "Dragon Race" in such a short period of time. The situation must be worse than worse, let alone a small [-] volumes, it is estimated that the [-] volumes will not be able to hold on later, and then the [-] volumes will not be good. You should start to worry up.

"Hello, the number you dialed is busy! Sorry..."

"Hello, the number you dialed is busy! Sorry..."

"Hello, the number you dialed is busy! Sorry..."

Since it is impossible to find a colleague to dismantle it, store manager Lai has no other better way to turn to the publisher, that is, Manjinghua Publishing Company. Unfortunately, what he can think of is bookstore owners all over the country. How could it be unexpected that although the quantity of [-] copies is not a lot in Yanjing, the capital of China, there are still some people in other cities who are not brave enough to order to buy [-] to [-] copies.

The retail price of a paperback version of "Dragon Race" is 30 yuan, and the purchase price of bookstore owners from the publisher is basically in the range of 22-24 yuan. Excluding miscellaneous expenses such as shipping fees and electricity fees, the income will be at least 15 yuan. Between 18% and 6%.It's a very simple math problem. For example, if the profit of a paperback edition of Dragon Family is 30 yuan, Boss Lai's sales of [-] copies will be as much as [-] yuan.

At the moment when e-books are becoming more and more popular, physical bookstores are not as profitable as they were in the 90s. On weekdays, earning 10,000 to [-] yuan after excluding various costs and expenses is considered a high-spirited business. There are many backlogs in the warehouse. In the end, the book had to lose money when it was packaged and sold as scrap, and it was a net loss. It is not bad to earn [-]+ all year round!

Comparing the two, I almost earned nearly three years of profit in one day!

Saying that "Dragon Race" is a cash cow, I believe bookstore owners all over the country will not have the slightest objection.

In such a situation where time is money, in the face of the dismantling request of the peers, no one would hesitate to categorically reject it. If you borrow [-] to [-] copies, it is equivalent to losing [-] to [-]. Who wants to?

Purely published novels such as "Dragon Race" are better. If it is an online novel that is actually published, the real money is actually when the first batch of fans and readers buy it, and subsequent sales will drop rapidly.Books are not necessities of life, let alone consumables. Many people would be fine if they just bought one, and some cash-strapped would even buy one together to borrow from each other. Therefore, the more time goes by, the more people will buy. few.

"Store Manager Lai, you've been on the phone for a long time, can you tell us if this book is still available?"

"Yes, yes, I have to go back to work in the afternoon."

"Every minute you waste, you are wasting more than 1 minutes of more than 100 people present!"

"Delaying time won't solve the problem, store manager, you have to give us those who have been queuing for half a day an explanation."

"..."

Seeing Store Manager Lai holding his mobile phone against his ear and never putting it down, his mouth closed quickly. Although he couldn't hear the specific content, and he wasn't that high-end to understand lip language, the big guy was not stupid. I haven't come back for a long time, and with the passage of time, I can roughly judge one or two from the increasingly ugly face. Now everyone who was full of joy and thought that they could buy "Dragon Race" suddenly felt resentful and couldn't help but make a fuss stand up.

People's mentality is sometimes affected by the environment.

Manager Lai's mentality at this time inevitably began to become extremely impatient. He glanced at the phone screen and dialed the sales manager of Manjinghua Publishing Company as many as seventeen times, but each time he received no response. The sentimental mechanical answer "The number you dialed is busy, please try again later!"

"Beep...beep...beep..."

Thankfully, at the moment when No.19 dialed out, it was finally connected!

"Hello, is this Manager Ouyang from Manjinghua? I'm Manager Lai from Xinhua Bookstore in Yanjing University District. I want to order a batch of "Dragon Race" books with you. Thirty thousand... No! I'm here for [-] copies, and I'll send the full amount to you right away."

"Mr. Lai, please wait, please wait first~ You first listen to me to tell you: We have sent all the first printed books of "Dragon Race" to all parts of the country, and now our warehouse is really full of books. No more, even the book preparations that were originally intended to be used for book exhibitions and book signings have been sent out more than an hour ago. Now it’s not just your store that needs money urgently, you can contact me right now Not fifty or sixty, at least thirty or forty."

"Then what should I do? In my store, a lot of readers who have queued up and failed to buy books will gather around the store and will not leave. Manager Ouyang this time, you will help my brother through this difficult time no matter what."

"Brother Lai, it's not that I don't help you, but that I really can't do anything. I'm not afraid to tell you that this time it was indeed a mistake in our estimate of the number of copies to be printed, and the printing factory is already working overtime to rush to print. Almost immediately after printing out a batch, some nearby bosses can’t wait to pick up the goods and take them away!”

"Manager Ouyang, please wait a moment..."

Store Manager Lai didn’t understand what he heard here. It’s not the old-fashioned way of not throwing eagles when you don’t see rabbits, and don’t bite hooks when you don’t see bait. In line with the principle of not paying big money for small money, he gritted his teeth and entered the other party’s mobile phone number on Alipay to transfer money. 1 yuan passed. .

"Alipay received 1 million yuan!"

Hearing the content automatically broadcasted by his mobile phone, Manager Ouyang showed a satisfied smile: "I also know your difficulties, brother, so now you rush to Chengxi Huamei Printing Factory to find their supervisor, and I will say hello there Yes, the printed batch of [-] copies will be taken away by you first."

"Okay! Thank you so much, Manager Ouyang."

"No matter what, this is what I should do!"

Chapter 561

All kinds of nasty things between publishers and sales channels have nothing to do with Li Chungang.

After going to Xinhua Bookstore for a brief "micro-service tour" to get a general understanding of the situation, he turned around and continued to drive back to school.

In fact, no matter how good the relationship between myself and Dong Sicheng, the boss of Manjinghua Publishing Company, is, when it comes to business, there are still some necessary commercial precautions.For example, every time a work is published, Man Jinghua will release detailed data to Wen Siquanyong's side, but who knows if there is something tricky in it?Therefore, every time Lin Meng's work is published, he will assign a team to be responsible for the market research. He doesn't want the data to be accurate, but he must have an idea in mind!

After returning to school, Li Chungang picked up the computer bag containing the laptop, and rode his little electric donkey to catch up with the teaching building.

Although there is actually not much difference between skipping half a class and skipping a whole class, but anyway, if there is nothing to do, just go there.

At this time, there were several unread messages in WeChat. Except for a few good friends who posted photos of the physical book they bought, the rest were basically "good news" sent by Lin Meng.

Since nine o'clock this morning, one success report after another has frequently appeared in Wensiquanyong's company.

Those who are always paying attention to the sales of "Dragon Race" are not only the employees of Manjinghua Publishing House and Li Chungang's own company, colleagues, his readers and fans, but also many netizens who eat melons and watch the excitement. at this point.

These days, as long as it is data, it is very popular.

Movies look at the box office, TV dramas look at ratings and play volume, songs and albums look at the charts to see sales, stars look at the size of their fans to see their salary and major awards, anyway, all kinds of data can reflect various things from the side!

As for book sales, it takes 24 hours the next day to see the most authoritative data release, but in fact, each company also has its own statistics, and these statistical data Often less precise, but more timely.

Just like the official Weibo editor of Wensi Quanyong Company has started the happy "Versailles" mode at this time, and will send out an exciting real-time data after a while, and the readers and fans who are paying attention are Shocked but also extremely happy!

[In less than 5 minutes after it went on sale, Li Chungang's latest fantasy masterpiece "Dragon Race" topped Amazon's e-book list, Douban new book list, Dingdang new book list, etc., and the dragon-slaying teenagers are coming! 】

[As of 12:30 noon Yanjing time, "Dragon Race" has sold more than 700 million copies on the Internet. Li Chungang has cleaned up the major charts, and all the top positions on the major charts have changed hands at the same time! 】

[Manjinghua Publishing Company announced that it will print 2000 million volumes for the second time. It has already printed 6000 million volumes for the first time and 1000 million volumes for the first time. 】

[There are news that stocks are running out in major online bookstores and offline physical stores. Friends who haven't bought the book yet, please hurry up! 】

【…】

After Wen Siquanyong sent out the last Weibo, which was more like reminding readers of the nature of fans, many readers who were not in a hurry woke up like a dream. When they hurriedly started to place orders in major online bookstores, they were told There is no stock. If you want it, you may have to wait for the next batch to arrive before you can ship it. You may ask for the exact time.

Those bosses who were eager to get the books were more shrewd and paid all the money for the books to Manjinghua Publishing Company, and then drove to the entrance of the printing factory without making any noise or disturbance. Jing waited in the warehouse of his factory, and whenever he saw a batch of "Dragon Race" printed out, he would pounce on it like a hungry wolf.

Li Chungang thought that not all readers would be able to accept the style of "Dragon Race". Now it seems that the word of mouth he left for readers before is so good that these readers who happily bought new books have not realized it. After they fell into the "huge pit" of "Dragon Race", it was difficult to climb out easily.

Although the writing technique of online novels can be useful if you want to promote before suppressing, but generally do not dare to restrain too much, for fear that readers will have to abandon the book before they can reach the part that is promoted.

but……

"Dragon Clan" is very special. Lu Mingfei, who seems to be the male protagonist, entered the Dragon Slaying Academy as an "S" grade student that others can't imagine. The climax stage is like transforming into an Ultraman to fight a little monster, killing a dragon king, but paying 1/4 of his life!

Someone once said: The core of comedy is actually tragedy!

Only Li Chungang, who has read all the previous content, knows best what a tragic hero Lu Mingfei is. All kinds of pitfalls may be missed if one is not paying attention when reading.

"I hope that you who know the truth later will not criticize me." Li Chungang thought to himself.

This fantastic start really exceeded his expectations!

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"Damn it, did this person grow up eating books? Creation is as simple as drinking water and eating. His works will be published almost every month for a year, and let others take a little breather gone?"

Mu Ningyu threw the mouse on the ground angrily. Fortunately, the force was not strong and the quality of the mouse passed the test, so it didn't fall apart. It's just that her complexion at this time was uglier than the burnt vegetables tonight.

Before she really faced Li Chungang, that name was just three words far away to her.

No matter how high his grades in online literature are, it doesn't matter how good his grades are. One writes about online articles that boys read, and the other writes about published articles that girls like to read. There is no conflict between the readership.

Before Mu Ningyu could mutter a few more words, the sound of her son crying loudly in the bedroom not far away made her feel bad all of a sudden, she was so irritable that she died!

Last year, her work "The Lover on the Bread Tree" originally thought that it would win the title of the book sales list in one fell swoop. The momentum in the first half of the year was perfect, but in the second half of the year, she didn't know where it came from. Suddenly, a novel called "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" came out, and it took only three months and three volumes to kill myself. Unfortunately, I lost the sales champion I had high hopes for.

I finally worked hard on a new book during my pregnancy, and it was published and released before the child was born. It sold more than 3000 copies within a week of its release, an astonishing result in this publishing industry. As far as the female author is concerned, she is already No. 1, but before she was happy for a long time, she bumped into Li Chungang's "Dragon Race" again.

The first printing was a desperate result that 6000 million copies were sold out within one day!

If she had known earlier, she would have postponed the publication of her book, and found a time period when Li Chungang's works were not published. If she couldn't get the annual sales champion, she would comfort herself with a monthly champion.

Chapter 562

Society is a melting pot for training people.

Here you can refine into steel and become more tenacious.

At the same time, society is also a vanity fair full of all kinds of temptations.

Here you can form a party for selfishness and selfishness!

If we talk about who is the happiest and most painful on the day "Dragon Race" goes on sale, then it must be the owners of bookstores all over the country.

How can anyone be both happy and miserable at the same time, isn't this a contradiction?In fact, the owners of these physical bookstores are happy that the first batch of "Dragon Race" that came back is almost sold out without exception, and the profits they earn range from three to five months to as many as a year or so. It's an exaggeration. They put the published works of other not-so-famous authors in their brick-and-mortar bookstores for sale. They wouldn't know how happy they would be if they could sell all of them without pressing the warehouse.

You know, under normal circumstances, the publication of a work is basically after 0:[-] in the morning, and the first batch of consumer readers have already ordered online. The only thing he can do is grab some of the leftovers from the online bookstore, just like Li Chungang, who has a huge number of readers who are willing to help him, so there will be such a rare "grand event" in a year.

This is exactly where these brick-and-mortar bookstore owners suffer so much. Making money is as easy as bending down to pick it up on the ground, but they can’t bend down, and then they have to watch their colleagues bend down to pick up money frequently. , but I can't do anything!

So soon, physical bookstores all over the country suddenly discovered a fact: almost all the first batch of "Dragon Race" that was first printed were sold out!

Anyone who hears this news will inevitably take a deep breath!

The news that 6000 million copies of "Dragon Race" was printed for the first time was the data that Manjinghua Publishing Company had already announced to the outside world when it was promoting the book.I don’t know how many colleagues in the publishing industry ridiculed and ridiculed at that time. You must know that this first printing data is not even comparable to the famous "Swords in the Snow" at that time.

But the reality gave these people a loud slap in the face, and it was the kind that would not spare the right cheek after the left cheek was slapped.

Do you think the first printing of 6000 million copies is already the limit?No!Far from it, as long as you are not blind, you will know that there are urgent reports from almost all over the country, and a large number of readers and fans are anxiously waiting to buy "Dragon Race".

"You said you are a loyal fan of Zhichun Zhigang Reader?"

"You're a Kiel without Dragon Clan!"

"You said you are willing to support Zhichun Zhigang?"

"You didn't even buy "Dragon Race" and you said Kiel!"

"You said you like Zhichun Zhigang's works very much?"

"I didn't even watch "Dragon Family" and you talked about Keel!"

"..."

Almost at the same time, most of Li Chungang's readers were discussing the topic of "Dragon Race". Tell me how you can participate in it if you haven't even bought the book yet.

Some small bookstores in some places have nothing to do with it, they can only call the sales department of Manjinghua Publishing Company over and over again, either the phone is busy or they are in the middle of a call, and when they finally get connected, all they get are the sweet voice of the customer service lady, What they are already asking the printing factory to print urgently, what will contact you as soon as the printing is available, etc... But when you further ask the specific time and when it will be your turn after the stock is available, no Sorry, the answer is "don't know".

And some have some business contacts with Manjinghua Publishing Company, such as Xinhua Bookstore Group.

"Mr. Ouyang, so many branches of our group across the country are calling the group headquarters to urge when they can deliver the goods. I have no choice but to call you personally to ask when you will deliver the goods. ah?"

Ouyang Xiao is the deputy general manager in charge of publishing and sales of Manjinghua Publishing Company. At this time, he was also urged by the calls from his partners to have a splitting headache.

As for the small mind of wanting to use power for personal gain at the beginning, he couldn't get up, because the people behind him who could directly call him were all unofficial for him, a deputy general manager!

If you offend the Xinhua Bookstore Group, think about how many branches and franchise stores they have all over the country. If you give an order and don't put the works published by your publishing house on the shelves, it will be nothing more than a loss for them The income is equivalent to a bolt from the blue for the publishing company.Just like the relationship between the film producer and the theater chain, if the film production is completed, if the theater chain does not release it for you, no matter how good-looking and sophisticated the content of the movie you make, the audience will not be there. Saw it in the cinema.

It's not just the Xinhua Bookstore group that is urging, other stationery and book giants such as Orange Light Group are also urging.

In the past, Ouyang Xiao would visit these groups one by one with a shy old face to promote the works published by his company. Faced with all kinds of provocative cynicism, he had to laugh along with him the whole time, and he had to give up his talents such as how much profit he had every time. Let the other party agree to come down.

But every time it is Li Chungang's turn to publish the works, the whole situation should prove a sentence: "Feng Shui turns around, 30 years in Hedong, 30 years in Hexi!"

It was as if the whole situation had been completely reversed. He could often straighten his back and allow others to offer all kinds of surprisingly favorable conditions that were unheard of in ordinary times!

They clearly know that "Chungang's product must be a high-quality product", and Manjinghua Publishing Company was the first to read the content of "Dragon Race", and they know exactly what this book is like, so why did they choose only slightly conservatively when they first printed it? 6000 million copies, and then only 2000 million copies when it was reprinted?

The answer is simple, they just want to create an illusion that "Dragon Race" is very scarce, and then unknowingly make both the seller and the buyer feel a great sense of tension.

No one understands the truth that rare things are valuable, just like water in the desert.

Ouyang Xiaolian responded: "Mr. Meng, the printing factories that have cooperative relations with our company are all printing at the same time, and none of the machines is idle, let alone printing other works. The first batch of printing will be added tomorrow. After it's installed, I'll have the nearest printing factory send it to you directly, do you think so? Is 300 million copies enough?"

"What is 300 million enough? I give one point to so many franchise stores all over the country. The average amount that each can get is less than [-] copies. I don't care about anything else, but you have to make sure that we are the number one." Got it!"

If a bookstore lacks some popular best-selling works for a long time, it is estimated that many consumers will never come to the door after asking once or twice.

Stabilizing old customers and developing new customers is the only rule of bookstore management!

If you put yourself in the shoes and think about it, you can understand that if you choose to buy from a physical bookstore because you don’t want to wait for the delivery time of the online bookstore, but you don’t have this book, you don’t have that one either.

So next time, next time, are you willing to continue wasting time?

With this time-wasting effort, I am afraid that all the books ordered in the online bookstore will be delivered home!

Chapter 563 Cultivating Immortals?Fellow