Grandpa's great writer

Chapter 690 Rambutan?
"Why is the new book released on a weekday? Doesn't Zhang Zhong care about sales?"

In the checkout queue at the bookstore, a young man couldn't help complaining.

Another person next to him smiled and said, "I didn't say that you were forced to come in the morning, just come and buy in the evening after get off work."

"I can't wait."

"If you buy it now, you can only wait until noon to see it."

"I can't read it at noon. I've been busy recently. Eating at noon is like fighting a war. I don't even care to chew the meal. What kind of book do I still read? I bought this book and read it at night."

"You can't see it, why don't you come to buy it at night..."

Listening to the conversation between those two people, Wang Yu laughed unconsciously. In fact, he is also very busy recently, and he probably can rest for less than half an hour after lunch, but he still came to line up, not for anything else , being able to buy the book back and put it on the desk can make him feel at ease.

Most of the people in line were like him, holding a starry sky card in their hands.

The emergence of the star card has both advantages and disadvantages. Of course it is beneficial to readers like them. After all, it can save dozens of dollars, which is also beneficial to these big bookstores, because the points can stimulate people's desire to buy.

But it is really disadvantageous for those small bookstalls, because many small bookstalls have not yet joined the star card point system.

On one side is a big bookstore where you can get points for buying books, and on the other side is a small book stand where you can’t get points for buying books. Of course, everyone is more inclined to buy books in big bookstores.

However, this situation should gradually change, because many small bookstores have gradually joined the Star Membership Card system.

Setting the release time on weekdays was also proposed by Zhang Zhong.

As soon as the points exchange for "A Clockwork Girl" came out, many people must have rushed to the bookstore to exchange books immediately.

If it is released on weekends, Zhang Zhong is worried that too many people will redeem new books, which will cause too much pressure on the bookstore's cash register and affect the normal operation of the bookstore.

The weekday sale can improve the situation as much as possible.

Although there are still some people lined up at the cash register, the line is not very long. If it is a weekend, the line may be several times longer.

……

Readers in the United States may not have such good benefits as Chinese readers.

The star card has been used in Huaxia for a long time, and the number of cooperative bookstores has reached a sufficient number, but in foreign countries, there are only a few big bookstores in most cities to buy books and accumulate points.

Therefore, foreign readers, if there is not a large bookstore that cooperates with Star Card near where they live, they have to go further if they want to earn points.

Redeeming new books is the same as accumulating points, and you also have to go to these cooperative bookstores.

In addition to the inconvenience of accumulating points and redeeming new books, it is more difficult for foreign readers to obtain points than Chinese readers—and much higher.

First of all, in Huaxia, one Huaxia currency can be exchanged for one point, but in the United States, one dollar can only be exchanged for one point.

Many American readers think it is unreasonable. After all, one dollar is worth seven yuan. Doesn't pz even consider the exchange rate?

Chinese readers may get [-], [-] or even [-] or [-] points for buying a book, but American readers can only get [-] or [-] points for buying a book.They pay more money, but only get less points.

Not only that, but in the United States, there are almost only two ways to earn credits by purchasing Zhang Zhong's works and "Zero Zero One" magazine, because many of the works of the authors under their company have not been translated into English.

There is no such thing as collecting points like the Juwang Science and Technology Exhibition Hall.

Therefore, it is not easy to accumulate [-] points in the United States, so there are many fewer people who exchange points for new books.

Of course, there are also some "opportunistic" people.

The points of the Star membership card do not distinguish between countries and regions, that is to say, readers who hold the Star membership card can accumulate points in any country in the world, and then use the points to redeem new books in another country.

For example, Parker, who often goes to Huaxia, even helped his friends do "purchasing" work. When he was in China, he used their Star Card to accumulate points. After returning to the United States, they took the Star membership card to exchange for new books.

……

As an old book fan, Stuart immediately went to apply for one after learning about the existence of the starry sky card.

Fortunately, the Norton bookstore she often goes to has joined the star card point system, so she doesn't have to go to other places for the star card.

Stuart is also one of the few American readers who can accumulate [-] points in such a short period of time.

In fact, she basically has all the works of pz, as long as they are translated into English, she has bought them all.

But for the sake of points, she bought these books again, even if she didn't read them herself, she would give them to friends, just so that she could bring a star card with [-] points to exchange for a new book on the day the new book was released.

From an economic point of view, of course she is at a loss.

In order to exchange for a book, she spent five hundred dollars in vain, which was enough for her to buy more than 20 copies of "A Clockwork Girl".

But she herself feels that it is not a loss at all, because she thinks that exchanging points for new books is much cooler than buying books directly with money.

There's no way, she can't resist redeeming points for rewards.

And when the points are exchanged for new books, the receipt given in the bookstore is also different from the receipt for ordinary book purchases. It shows that [-] points will be deducted.

So after switching to the new book, she took a photo and posted it on her social networking site.

Look, my wife is different from you, but I am a new book redeemed with points.

Well, that's cool.

After receiving the envy of many friends to her heart's content, she opened the new book "A Clockwork Girl" that she paid five hundred dollars for.

The title of the book is "The Clockwork Girl", but at the beginning of the novel, there is no girl.

A man named Anderson was walking in the Bangkok morning market, and he seemed to find something very remarkable.

ngaw.

It is a kind of fruit, red fruit with green hairs.

This word - how to pronounce it?
This stumped Stuart a bit.

She had never heard of the fruit ngaw either.

But seeing the description of ngaw, Stuart felt a little familiar.

It is a red fruit with green hairs, shaped like a sea anemone, and the flesh inside is pale and translucent.

This looks like... rambutan?

The more I think about it, the more she feels like it.

This is definitely rambutan.

In fact, even if she doesn't know what this fruit is, it doesn't affect Stuart's reading, because this is a future world, and it is quite normal for things she doesn't know to appear.

In particular, she has also read "Yellow Card Man" and "Calorie Man", so she already has a preliminary understanding of this world.

(End of this chapter)