The strongest brain in entertainment

Chapter 359 Breaking Sales Records

Just after [-] o'clock on Christmas morning, Li Fan easily broke the first-day sales record of the new book.

This does not need to be counted, because the pre-sale of 89 alone is enough to make this book a record in history, not to mention that there are still many people going to bookstores to buy it.

Of course, the reason for this is because compared with a few years ago, there are now many more channels for pre-sale of books than before, and online shopping for all people has been thoroughly cultivated in the past few years. The objective conditions are far from being met when writing.

In addition, the pre-sales and publicity of Li Fan's new book were extremely well done before the release, so it is understandable that the sales volume on the first day far exceeds that of all predecessors.

In a society with a high degree of modernization, in a background where the book market is lacking and weak, and the book market is more prominent, Li Fan has taken advantage of the huge wind.

On the first day of the new book's sale, readers flocked to large bookstores across the country to buy it.

The Nanjing Bookstore in Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province just opened its doors in the morning, and the 100 new books neatly arranged in the new book area were snapped up by readers queuing up in an instant.After rearranging 100 copies, within 20 minutes, sell short again...

After hundreds of readers and friends queued up to buy, the sales of new books slowed down, but before 11 am, all 500 books were sold out.

At the main store of Xinhua Bookstore in Zhejiang Province, just after noon, the warehouse manager stared blankly at the inventory, and all 600 books were sold out!

Zhonglian City Book Building, 500 books, sold out!
901 Bookstore in Shanghai City, sold out!
The three major bookstores in Beijing are all sold out.

……

When the sun sets and night falls, all major bookstores in the first-tier markets across the country are all sold out!

In addition to the pre-sale of 89 copies, an additional 300 copies of "New Textual Research Works Collection" were released in nearly 15 bookstores across the country, and they were sold out within a day.

A drop in the bucket, 15 copies is completely a drop in the bucket!

That night, orders from all over the place fell into Giessen Publishing House like snowflakes, and the staff in the office had to work a long overtime tonight.

In the office, the QQ of various avatars kept flashing, the phone on the desk kept ringing, and the huge space was noisy and lively:
"Are you sure you want to purchase another 2000 copies? Uh, but at present we may only be able to send 1000 copies first. Okay, I will give you the registration information."

"Don't worry, we will arrange your order for you as soon as possible!"

……

The president, editor-in-chief, secretary and others stood at the door of the office and looked at the busy staff. They whispered:
"We are currently only stocking up in big bookstores. Not counting pre-sales, we sold 15 copies today, and they sold out early. We still underestimated Li Fan's market."

"We still have an inventory of 45 books. According to normal market trends, book sales will continue to decrease within a week. Our inventory will be fine before New Year's Day."

"Then how many more copies should we print?"

"Print another million copies, and we will have a meeting to study it later."

"Li Fan is really amazing. An academic work has sold such an astonishingly brilliant result."

……

The manager of the marketing department came over suddenly and said: "President, our 15 copies have been ordered again, and there are still 30 copies in stock, how about?"

"Don't worry, send 15 copies first!"

That night, the warehouse urgently transferred the goods to various bookstores, and the nearby bookstores received the goods the next morning, but the hundreds of books in each bookstore were sold out again on the same day.

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Just after midnight on Christmas night, many netizens opened the official website of "People's Literature Publishing House", staring straight at the list of "2018 Book Sales List", ready to witness Li Fan's sales miracle, but at this time The name of Li Fan's work has not yet appeared on the list, and netizens left messages one after another:

"What's the situation, haven't you finished counting yet?"

"That's a good statistic. All major bookstores across the country are sold out. Wouldn't it be over if we just counted the shipments?"

"Don't worry, everyone. Government-run organizations have always been inefficient. It may take ten days and a half to be on the list."

……

Netizens chatted in the comment area for about half an hour, and suddenly someone said: "Attention everyone, Li Fan is on the list!"

After everyone refreshed the webpage, they saw the title of Li Fan's book on the ranking list.

[2018 Book Sales List]:
No. 1: "Fall to Ashes" (science fiction), with sales of 188 million copies.

No. 2: "Our Family" (biographical novel), with sales of 120 million copies.

No. 3: "Rainbow" (prose), with sales of 110 million copies.

No. 4: "Golden Age" (a novel for educated youth), with sales of 103 million copies.

No. 5: "New Textual Research Collection" (academic works), to be counted.

……

Seeing this, everyone said one after another:

"What is 'to be counted'?"

"Is it so hard to count the data? Can it be more efficient?"

"However, Shuai Li is also amazing, and he ranked fifth in the 'to be counted'!"

"After all, there are 89 pre-sales alone, and it ranks 5th before the official sale. It's so awesome!"

……

The three words "to be counted" made some netizens unable to sleep. They always felt excited and uneasy until they saw the exact figures.

Some netizens really stayed up all night. They refreshed the webpage after playing a game, or swiped the webpage after watching a movie. The eagerness was similar to waiting for their favorite football game.

Until 3 o'clock in the morning, the data on the [2018 Book Sales List] was finally updated:

"New Textual Research Works Collection" sold 104 copies, and the ranking rose from No.6824 to No.5!

In a certain Internet cafe, a netizen patted the table with a "slap", "Awesome!"

Other customers turned their heads and looked sideways, daring to be angry but not daring to speak.

……

In the bedroom of a certain family, the young woman who had just had a fierce battle slapped her red knee excitedly, and said to her mobile phone: "You are too good!"

The husband leisurely puffed out smoke rings: "My concubine, isn't I amazing?!"

The young woman glanced at him: "You used to be a king."

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In a dormitory of No. 19 middle school:

"Our senior's new book sold 104 million copies on the first day!"

"This is our role model and motivation!"

"My father is also a well-known author, and he only sold 10 books in two years."

"Then you should call now to comfort uncle, maybe uncle is squatting in the corner crying."

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The sense of smell of the news media is always beyond the sensitivity of ordinary people. As soon as the sales volume was released, several media followed up. Immediately afterwards, various eye-catching news headlines flew around, which was extremely exaggerated.

"The whole country was shocked, and the first-day sales of the new book hit a record";
"Miracle, starting from the age of 18!" "

"Stamp all writers underfoot, this is Li Fan's era";
"Nothing can stop me, my longing for Li Fan";
……

Nowadays, there are too many news editors, with different styles and levels. There are many news stories that make people laugh and cry.

Some editors found out that colleagues in the industry were crazily flattering Li Fan, so writing like this must not have much traffic, and then they took on the style of blackmailing or pouring cold water.

As a result, they were scolded miserably by netizens, but their leaders patted their shoulders and encouraged them, "Young man, your performance has been good recently, keep up the good work!"

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In the morning of the next day, Li Fan and "New Textual Research Works Collection" completely occupied the top of Baidu's hot search list, the top of Baidu's topic list, Weibo headlines, UG client headlines and other major media, and Huaguo was caught up in heated discussions. .

After all, more than 100 million copies were sold on the same day, which has never happened in the history of Huaguo. Li Fan set a new record in the Huaguo book market!

In all fairness, among the 100 million sales, the pre-sale of 89 copies in the first two months accounted for too much. It is unreasonable to include this pre-sale sales in the total sales of the first day.

But, this is the most convenient aspect of this information age.

When Li Fan was doing book signings in Harbin, many media had already blocked the entrance of Xinhua Bookstore. Li Fan was thinking about how to get out quickly while signing sales.

He is not in the mood to spend time with the media, sleepy, tired and exhausted, all he wants now is to end the autograph signing soon, and then go back to the hotel to have a good sleep, sleep so dark that he doesn't know what's going on!
When he got back to the hotel, he slept until 9:[-] a.m. before he got up.It was still woken up by Zhang Xiaofei's phone call.

"Xiaofei, is the reporter downstairs?"

"Brother Fan, didn't we secretly change hotels?"

"Totally sleepy!" Li Fan opened his eyes and said, "I thought I was dreaming when I spoke just now!"

Soon, Zhang Xiaofei knocked on Li Fan's door and brought in the ordered takeaway.

While eating, Zhang Xiaofei told Li Fan what happened yesterday and the crazy reports from the major news media.

"Brother Fan, you are really amazing. I heard from them that the sales record on the first day was only about 20 copies, and it was an 'ancient' record. I heard that the book finally sold 300 million copies a year!

If we continue to sell like this, we can't sell more than 1500 million copies in a year? "

Li Fan laughed, he shook his head and said: "That's not the case, the reason why our book sold 100 million copies on the first day is because during the two-month pre-sale period, at least some of the potential readers Half of them have already been paid through various channels!"

"How do you know at least half of the people pay?"

Li Fan said: "This is the Internet age, not to mention us young people, even my relatives in my hometown in the countryside all shop online, and all the supermarkets are full of mobile payment.

How many people go to bookstores to buy books?Many people bought what they wanted to buy online, and with the two-month pre-sale advertisement, at least half of the people who should buy have placed their orders, and the remaining half may go to bookstores to buy. "

"No, Brother Fan, the netizens are still telling us to keep the first and break the second, to keep the sales bottom line of 1000 million, and hit the sales target of 2000 million."

Li Fan was taken aback, "Netizens have praised me too much. Our book, based on the situation, is estimated to sell 300 million copies in the end."

Zhang Xiaofei was puzzled: "Brother Fan, why do you underestimate yourself so much? We have already reached 104 million in one day! I disagree with your previous analysis."

Li Fan said: "There is a huge flaw in our book. Do you know what it is?"

"What? No flaws, perfect!"

"Our books are not readable! It's lonely and cold, and this kind of out-of-the-way books will soon pass their best-selling period. This is different from popular books such as novels. You will know in 10 days and a half months. "

The most amazing thing about Li Fan is not how awesome he is, but knowing that he is not awesome when he is awesome, which is awesome.

To describe it in two words: not floating!
Wasn't he surprised that the new book won a big victory and set a record on the first day? Naturally, he was very pleasantly surprised.He also routinely brags to his relatives and friends, but he knows the reasons for this achievement.

It is very easy for people to get carried away in front of great honors, because at that time, all the people around you are praising you and looking at you with envy and admiration. Your side is full of applause and flowers, At this time, people are in an extremely dangerous state, and most people lose themselves at this time.

At this time, there are basically few people who can examine themselves and keep calm.

Everyone knows that winning is not arrogant and losing is not discouraged, but who can do it?

It is possible to win a game without being proud, but life is full of brilliance, and it is basically impossible to "win without being proud".

Among Li Fan's personality traits, "Success without arrogance" is the most shining point.

Zhang Xiaofei introduced various news headlines about him to Li Fan, "You didn't have time to surf the Internet yesterday, and there was even an article with the headline: "I have the Nobel Prize in Literature in my pocket, it's him!".

As a result, I clicked in and took a look. The editor was talking nonsense. I thought the Nobel Prize in Literature paid attention to us! "

Li Fan smiled and said: "Headline party, now journalists love to play with headlines. I saw some news headlines, let me give you some guesses.

There is a piece of news about me, titled "Li Fan was forcibly dragged on the street!" ". "

Zhang Xiaofei hurriedly said, "Who did you fight with?"

Li Fan smiled wryly: "What kind of fight? The content of the news is that someone dragged a suitcase with my photo on it across the road.

What does the headline "Finally wet after 100 days of dryness" mean? "

Zhang Xiaofei covered his face: "It's so dirty!"

"What are you thinking about? The content of this article is: Spring City has not rained for 100 days, and it finally rains.

Another one for you, "Boys and Girls Rub Sensitive Parts Vigorously in Broad Daylight", what news? "

"Hey, you're so dirty."

"What are you thinking again? Let me tell you, the content of this news is: A certain school requires all students to do eye exercises during recess for the eye health of middle school students!"

Zhang Xiaofei said in shock: "Such despicable and bottomless nonsense?"

"Then take a look, what about "Full Perspective Picture That Makes Men Thrill"?"

"what?"

Li Fan smiled and said: "The content is to introduce the new car, and the accompanying picture is a perspective view of the structure of this car.

Let me tell you a few more:
"The climax is coming, men and women are too excited to know what to do!There are pictures and the truth", but clicked in, damn it, it was a group of people watching the sea tide rise!
"shock!He stuck it in and didn't pull it out all night, almost killed him! "Click in and have a look, your uncle, it turned out that the charger was not unplugged and caused the fire!

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Selling dog meat, distorting black and white, turning right and wrong, exaggerating, making up nonsense, having no bottom line, shameless... When these words are associated with some unscrupulous journalists, I feel ashamed for them !

I bother! ! "

"Brother Fan?!"

"Ok?"

"Brother Fan, I have a question that I'm curious about."

"what is the problem?"

"Why, all you watch is this kind of news?"

"..." Li Fan lost his temper for a moment.

(End of this chapter)