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Kawata Keiji replied: "This kind of banning by publishing houses is often only effective for some authors with little talent. After all, the works are not very good. Once the promotion channels are lost, the works will not be sold at all."

He picked up the red wine and took a sip, "But I have read your book "The Devotion of Suspect X". To be honest, even if there is no book review recommendation, sooner or later it will rely on readers' word-of-mouth recommendation and it will be constantly promoted. Come."

"So Mr. Akihara, you don't have to underestimate yourself. Trust your readers, they are the real reliance for you to compete with Mandansha."

Hiroto Akihara was worried, but he didn't expect to be comforted instead. He thought about it and found that this was indeed the case.

As long as word-of-mouth of "Suspect X" slowly spreads, then this book will still sell well, and my other works can also use the accumulated readers to start to gain further sales in the market.

In addition, the many works in my mind can completely become my reliance.

As long as the time is longer, the sales of your works will be more, and the more famous you will be, the less you need to worry about the so-called banning by Mandanshe.

In the final analysis, time is still on your side!

Thinking of this, Hiroto Akihara knew something in his mind, he was not as worried as he was at the beginning, but he thought of other aspects.

However, if you just accept it passively, it will take a long time to be patient, and it will even affect your other plans to publish books.

Therefore, I still have to think of other ways to see if I can break this so-called ban!

Holding the red wine glass, Kawada Keiji watched the expression on Akihara Hiroto's face relax, and also showed a satisfied smile.

In fact, if other authors had invited him this time, he probably wouldn't have come.

After all, as a book reviewer, or a literary critic, you actually have to keep a certain distance from the authors of the books you evaluate.Only in this way can the book reviews written by oneself be fair and just.

But after accepting Akihara Yuto's invitation, he couldn't help but accept it.

After all, he was really curious, what kind of person was the author who could write a work like "The Devotion of Suspect X"?

After Akihara Hiroto knew what he wanted to know again, he stood up again and bowed to express his gratitude.

After all, without the book reviewer in front of me, I don't know how many detours I have to take, and I am probably still thinking stupidly why there are no other book reviews.

As for the rest of the specific situation, it is estimated that you have to ask Aiko Asano who is helping him find out the news.

What Akihara Hiroto didn't notice was that when he expressed his thanks to Kawada Keiji, Akutsu Goichi who was standing aside showed a strange expression...

[Chapter 135.134 Cooperation?give up? ]

November 11, Anjiu Bookstore, office on the second floor.

"This is how it happened."

An Jiujin told the other five people in the office what he had learned at the dinner last night.

Hearing the cause and effect, the five employees of Anjiu Bookstore were a little surprised. Satake Maki showed a worried expression on his face, Itakura Naka frowned, Oka Yuto and Nagao Teppei looked at each other, Nishijima Sota His expression became serious.

After looking around for a week, An Jiujin continued: "So everyone, after finishing the existing inventory, will we still cooperate with Teacher Akihara in the future?"

After learning that the opponent was the giant Mantansha, An Jiujin was a little scared.

After all, compared with Mandanshe, Anjiu Bookstore is like a small sampan next to an aircraft carrier in terms of size and distribution.

He considered whether to end the cooperation with Akihara Yuto to avoid getting into trouble.

That's why he avoided Hiroto Akihara and held this meeting.

Itakura Naka, who was wearing lipstick, raised her hand and put forward her own opinion first, "President Yasuhisa, I don't have any other opinions. I just want to ask, if we don't cooperate, what will be our future business?"

Itakura Naka didn't really care about what happened to the publishing house. In her opinion, sooner or later, she would hang a wealthy son-in-law and become a housewife.

Anjiu Bookstore and so on, but they only stay because they can't find other jobs now.

So what she cares about is only the change of her job content.

Hearing this question, An Jiujin hesitated for a while, and said in an uncertain tone: "Continue to focus on self-publishing business."

Now relying on Akihara Yuto's dedication to "Suspect X" has already established a reputation, and the number of self-published clients is much more than before.

Judging from this situation, even after losing "Suspect X" and another unpublished "Death of a Reasoner", although Anjiu Bookstore has lost a lot of money, it will not be seriously damaged.

Itakura Naka shrugged, "Then I have no other opinions."

Anyway, no matter how well the Anjiu Bookstore is doing, I won't get an extra bonus, so as long as the working hours don't extend, that's fine.

Just as An Jiujin nodded, he looked at the others, "What about you?"

"President, I object."

To Akutsu's surprise, Maki Satake, who never expresses his opinion much, stood up and said in a firm tone.

"What's the reason?" An Jiujin asked rhetorically.

Satake Maki nodded, and said in a serious tone: "President, if Mr. Akihara hadn't cooperated with us, Anjiu Bookstore wouldn't be able to get to where it is today. So I don't think we should feel that the other party is being suppressed by Mantan Club, Just choose to end the cooperation!"

Just as An Jiujin shook his head, children only talk about right and wrong, adults only talk about benefits.

At the beginning, the cooperation with Hiroto Akihara was nothing more than a business relationship. Although there were some favors, they were not as good as real money.

And in the share with Akihara Hiroto, Anjiu Bookstore can only get 8% of the sales share, and the other party takes most of the profits.

Akutsu just ignored Satake Maki's eyes, waved her to sit down, and asked about another capable person, Sota Nishijima, who was in charge of sales and promotion.

"Nishijima, what's your opinion?"

Sota Nishijima glanced at Maki Satake, feeling that something was wrong with her expression.

He turned his head, faced An Jiujin Gangyi and said, "President, I want to ask, how much is the liquidated damages?"

"If it is a supplementary agreement after the reprint, it will be about 500 million yen. As for the other book, no formal contract has been signed yet."

Sota Nishijima nodded, and continued: "President, in addition to the 5 books that have been delivered to distributors and bookstores, there are still 1 books in stock. According to your estimate, if the final inventory How long will it take to digest it?"

An Jiujin just thought for a while, and replied: "The current weekly sales volume is 6000 copies, which may be the follow-up impact of book reviews. In the future, it cannot be ruled out that it will return to the initial 4000 copies per week or even lower."

He pondered in his mind for a while, and replied, "It may take half a year."

Sota Nishijima continued, "President, if it takes such a long time, I suggest that you continue to cooperate with Mr. Akihara. After all, in the view of Mandansha, our Anjiu Bookstore is already tied to the other party."

He accentuated.

"The most important thing is, judging by the statistics, can "Suspect X" be called a long-selling book at all? Are you really going to give up?"

He felt that his president was a little too afraid of Mandanshe, so that he ignored the most important moment of Anjiu Bookstore.

After all, although Mandanshe is large in size, there is no reason to restrict Anjiu Bookstore.