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Therefore, whether it is "Snow Country" or "Personal Experience", the current sales volume in the European and American markets is less than 1 copies.

But how did the jury of the Dublin Literary Prize discover this work if the sales were not good?

Is it like a certain judge found out by accident and nominated this work?

Satake Maki shook her head, she didn't know about this, after all, she just received a fax.Although Akihara Yuto was puzzled, he didn't know who to ask for a while.

Just as he was thinking, the phone rang.

Hiroto Akihara picked up the phone and found that it was Goichi Akutsu who was calling.

An Jiujin just smiled and said, "Akihara, congratulations on being shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award."

Akihara Hiroto was a little puzzled about how the other party knew so quickly, but he still replied: "Thank you, but I don't know the final result yet."

After a pause, he tentatively asked the question in his heart, wanting to find out if An Jiujin Gangichi had any relationship with the jury.

An Jiujin just burst out laughing, and then said: "Qiuhara, you have a shortcoming, that is, you think too much about everything. As a writer, you only need to focus on your own creation!"

Akihara Hiroto couldn't help but laugh, and could only agree.

Regardless of whether I won an award in the end, this matter is considered a surprise to me, so I don't need to understand it so clearly.

It seems that I should do the work at hand first.

But what he didn't know was that after "Snow Country" was shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award, he gained more attention from the outside world...

[315.3 Chapter Fourteen Do a Good Job]

The Neon in 93, the mentality of all the people is very sad.

Because of the bursting of the economic bubble, unemployment across the country is particularly serious, a large number of enterprises have laid off employees and went bankrupt, and a large number of unemployed people have emerged.

After losing their jobs, these people have been unable to find jobs because of the economic downturn.

If you are lucky, you can find some odd jobs on the street to make a living like Hiroto Akihara's predecessor did.

Those who are unlucky can only sleep in parks and under bridges, and can't even find odd jobs.

It is conceivable that under such an economic environment, the whole society is filled with a sad atmosphere, and suicides are also high.

During this process, the Nihong government has been trying to inspire the people, such as advocating the spirit of "a bowl of clear soup soba noodles" again, so it should be clenching its teeth and sticking to it.

But for these calls from the government, the people basically let it go.

Such a big problem in the economy is not the fault of the cabinet!

Now that we can't even eat, you still want to fill us with chicken soup? !

In desperation, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and other government departments can only use other methods to boost the morale of the people.

So once someone wins any international honor, immediately pull it out and praise it.

Not to mention, because of Neon's admiration for Europe and the United States, many people really like this.

After Hiroto Akihara's work "Snow Country" was shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award, after being reported by some media, it was also followed by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, thinking that it could be well manipulated to inspire the people.

So under the impetus of the state machine, the news that it was only a finalist rather than an award made it to NHK's prime-time news, and it also appeared on the front pages of the five major newspapers.

In terms of exposure rate, it is even much higher than Uemura Award.

So in less than two days, most of the Neon citizens knew the news that Hiroto Akihara was shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award.

With a large amount of exposure, various TV stations and related newspapers also carried out targeted follow-up reports, and invited a group of experts and scholars from the traditional literary circle.

But for this matter, these experts and scholars are actually quite tired of crooked.

Although the Dublin Literary Award is also ranked among the top international literary awards, the Swedish one is the most influential award.

What's more, now that he is only shortlisted, he is praised so highly, what if he fails to be shortlisted? !Isn't that a big joke?

However, despite the slander in their hearts, few of the invited traditional literature experts and scholars dared to speak ironically.

After all, most of them, in addition to being writers or book reviewers, also work as teachers in a university or other academic institutions, and these institutions are all funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

What if the irony offends the Ministry of Education, Culture, Culture, Sports, Science and Education, and people wear small shoes when allocating funds?

After all, it is better to take care of the current officials first, and the prime minister and the cabinet politicians will not have any troubles if they scold casually, but the civil servants who are in charge of specific affairs should not be offended. (Politicians are different from civil servants)

With such motives, the public opinion was full of praise, and even many experts directly "advocated" Akihara Hiroto as if he had already won the award.

Under the unanimous voice, the public was also taken aback for a while, as if they thought this was really a great award.

Even Hiroto Akihara himself was puzzled.

He didn't know that the Ministry of Education and Culture did this to divert the public's attention behind this. He just thought about whether this world is really so different from the previous life?Is this award really so awesome?

However, because of the large amount of publicity, many people who did not like to read traditional literary works have become interested in "Snow Country", and are going to buy a copy in the bookstore.

In less than a week, the 10 copies of the sixth edition of "Snow Country" were sold out.

But this is not a good thing, and it also brings new troubles to Hiroto Akihara.

……

Setagaya Ward, Tsutaya Bookstore.

As the Big Three of the publishing house, Sota Nishijima, Aiko Asano, and Hiroto Akihara sat in a small conference room and held a small meeting to discuss the subsequent impact of this incident.

Sota Nishijima frowned and said: "About "Snow Country", 123 cooperative bookstores in Tokyo have sent orders for a total of 3 copies, but Tokyo Publishing Sales and Neon Publishing Sales have increased their orders. , requiring each to order 6 volumes."

As usual, if the dealer is willing to increase the order, he will be happy as the president.

But now I have another purpose. If I sell the book to a dealer again, I feel like shooting myself in the foot.

Akihara Yuto scratched his head with his hands, and he also felt that this matter was a bit beyond his expectation.

In his plan, as long as his work wins the Uemura Award and has a lot of exposure, he can directly get rid of dealers and connect to bookstores across the country.

However, in order to achieve this goal, it is necessary to establish a national warehousing and logistics network through second-hand chain bookstores.After all, Neon is not as expensive as the domestic express logistics in the previous life.

Like some small bookstores in other counties, if you only want 30 or 40 copies in small batches, the logistics cost of shipping from Tokyo is not cost-effective at all.

"How many bookstores have been established now." Akihara Yuto asked after thinking about it.

"As of now, there are 5 directly-operated stores and 10 franchised stores, and each store has a warehouse that can store about [-] books," Aiko Asano took over, "But because it is newly opened , currently just maintaining balance of payments.”

Hiroto Akihara nodded silently.

Newly opened second-hand bookstores generally need word-of-mouth fermentation to attract customers, and it is already very good to be able to make ends meet.