Xueba Fengyun

In the era when Liu Miao was still Zhou Sen, because there were many pirated copies, the sales volume of relevant books could only be counted from the source of the publishing house, so "buying sales volume" also happened from time to time.The simplest method of "buying sales" is that my publishing house claims to have published a million copies, but in fact the distribution may only be 20 copies.Later, some organizations responsible for sales statistics became smart. Your publishing house can’t decide what to do. Show me the contract between your publishing house and printing house.At this time, publishing houses and agencies are a little more disciplined. Authors who can only sell [-] copies originally claim to sell [-] copies at most.Of course, if the author has a financial backer, buying hundreds of thousands of copies at one go and using them as toilet paper can also make an unknown fifth-tier author instantly popular as a best-selling author or something.

In this era, due to the country's severe crackdown on piracy and the internal industry self-discipline of the publishing industry, "buying sales" is much less, and the "sales list" is also relatively strict.The Oricon List, which is considered to be the book sales market, is the "Huaxia Book Sales List" launched by the newspaper "Huaxia News" with the largest circulation in the country, in conjunction with Sanwei Bookstore, Xinzhi Bookstore, Donglian Bookstore and other top ten chain bookstores in the country.

The list is published weekly and subdivided into six categories: romance novels, fantasy novels, martial arts novels, biographies, poetry and prose, and other books.Especially for the list of the three major categories of novels, it is detailed enough to distinguish single editions, library editions, and collection editions.The single book is naturally a single novel as a book, and it is also the most important form of novel distribution in China at present. This is also the list where popular writers are fighting the most; the library version is usually carefully revised by the writer and the publishing house after several years Re-editions are generally one book at a time. Compared with single volumes, which are aimed at the popular market, library books are aimed at the classic market; while collections are generally aimed at non-popular writers, one book may not support the sales volume. Published in the form of one or more novels.According to this classification, Liu Miao's "First Love" is naturally classified in the sales list of love novel collections.

Because Liu Miao is considered a rookie in the publishing industry, Zhuo Ran specially educated Liu Miao about science, "Among the three main categories of novels in China, martial arts novels are undoubtedly the best-selling novels, and the sales volume of a single line of martial arts this week does not exceed 20 copies." It’s a shame to be on the list. Only when the annual sales volume exceeds [-] million can it be possible to enter the top [-] on the annual best-selling list of martial arts novels; the second is our love novels. In the case of romance novels, it is common for a single book to sell over [-] in the first week, but Compared with the martial arts list, which is always fifty books breaking [-] sales, the love list can have more than a dozen books; of course, there are even fewer fantasy novels, and the weekly list that can break [-] sales is basically the top three. Therefore, there is a saying in the publishing industry that "a thousand martial arts is considered a bestseller, a million love is considered a god, and a million fantasies are a dream." The sales volume of library books and collections is generally one-fifth and one-third of that of single volumes. Therefore, basically if our "First Love" can sell [-] copies in the first week, you will be considered the newcomer king of this year."

After listening to Zhuo Ran's explanation, Liu Miao automatically made up the single volume into a single in the record industry, the collection is an album, and the library is naturally a collection.The Martial Arts Chart is the "Pop Music Chart" which is the most fiercely fought among records but also the creator of sales miracles; the Love Chart is the "Rock Music Chart" which always has a group of diehard fans but has a breakthrough audience; as for the Fantasy Chart, It is the "jazz music list" that will always belong to the niche hobby.With this analogy, Liu Miao finally figured out the meaning of the book list.

Moreover, Zhuo Ran also confessed that the basic principles of best-selling books are nothing more than the right time, location and harmony.The right time means that the subject matter and category of the book have hit the current fashion trend. For example, martial arts has recently become popular with "waste material against the trend". You need to distribute the goods, and then you have to be able to distribute the goods in some regional chain bookstores and some local bookstores. After all, the sales volume of a book sold in ten bookstores is different from that sold in one hundred bookstores; Renhe is the popularity of you as an author.

Zhuo Ran even talked about some small eyebrows in the bookstore. For example, the bookshelf at the entrance of the bookstore is commonly known as the "best-selling bookshelf". It is known as the "diamond bookshelf", because the books that can be placed there must be sold The best book or the book that is likely to sell the best; secondly, the small bookshelf next to the cashier is called the "golden bookshelf", because it will be seen by readers when checking out, and it is possible to buy one directly; and the opposite side of the cashier is used to The open book stand under the periodical bookshelf is the "silver bookshelf", because this is a place where readers can easily find it, and it is helpful for sales.

Many publishing houses will negotiate with chain bookstores about the publicity prices of these three positions, and they will have to pay the bookstore for publicity fees if they want to put their new books on there for a week.In order to maintain the bookstore's own taste and the price of the promotional space, the places available for sale in these three places are also very limited, so the price is not cheap and it is difficult to buy.For example, Liu Miao's "First Love" still has some posters posted in the bookstore, but the book cannot be placed in these three promotion positions; as for the books by Zhou Hang and others, there are no posters.

However, Liu Miao was not in the mood to care about her first week's sales at this time, because the final exam of the first semester of the third year of junior high school was imminent.Rao, academic masters like Liu Yan and Zhang Yao also began to sharpen their guns and changed their review plans one after another. They carried out targeted review of the learning content in the last semester of the third year of junior high school, and Liu Miao was no exception.It's just that Liu Miao devoted all his energy to history and politics. The embarrassment that his grades kept falling due to losing points in history and politics one after another did not seem to happen to Liu Miao again.

This time, the province's final unified examination has adopted the strategy of invigilating the examination in different places and applying for the examination in different schools.The examination numbers of all high school students in the city were shuffled and rearranged, and then they were randomly arranged to take the examination in middle schools in Baoqing City.And all the teachers who are in charge of invigilating the exams for students in Baoqing City are not teachers from Baoqing City. Once they are caught cheating, they can't be fooled by just saying a few nice words.

Therefore, Teacher Hao couldn’t help but warn again and again in class, “Don’t do it if you really don’t know how to do it! Don’t take the risk of copying the answer of the next table for a question, or you will be ‘cheating’ if you are caught by the invigilator. In the past, if our school’s teachers proctored the exam, at most they would just accept your papers and let you leave, but now it’s not our school’s teacher invigilating the exam. If teachers from other schools in Baoqing City, they might all be students of Baoqing For the sake of it, you will only be punished for 'violation', that is, a zero score. But the teachers in other areas are not so kind. Once caught, it will be 'cheating'. At that time, not only will your grades be invalidated, but at least you will face suspension of the exam. With a one-year punishment, you will definitely not be able to take the entrance examination next semester. So, don't lose the big because of the small!"

Teacher Hao's stern warning escalated everyone's tension a lot, and even Liu Yan, who has always been calm, became a little irritable.However, in such a tense study atmosphere, Liu Miao suddenly didn't know what he had dreamed at night. He only felt that his underwear was wet and woke up from the dream immediately.The wet and sticky underwear had already let Liu Miao know what happened, so she quietly went to the washroom at the end of the corridor to clean it, and then changed into a pair of underwear.As for the pair of underwear that became the "criminal evidence", Liu Miao thought about it, soaked it thoroughly with water, and threw it into the garbage dump.

After dealing with everything, Liu Miao returned to the dormitory.To Liu Miao's embarrassment, the liquid not only wetted her underwear, but also left traces on the bedding.But it was not easy to deal with it at this time, so I had to make do with it and continue to sleep.It's just that the wet feeling and the special smell made Liu Miao feel a little uncomfortable, but because the pressure of studying during the day was too great, Liu Miao slowly fell asleep no matter how uncomfortable he was.

"Liu Miao, it's time to get up!" Just as Liu Miao was sleeping comfortably, he felt someone shaking him.When he opened his eyes, it was Liu Yan who was dressed and waking him up. "What happened to you last night? You are usually the first to wake up in the dormitory, but you got up late today. Hurry up and change your clothes, and you will go to the examination room soon. You are the only one in our dormitory to take the exam in No. 108. If you don’t leave, you won’t be able to catch the bus arranged by the school.”

"Oh." Liu Miao naturally knew that it was because what happened yesterday made him a little tired, but fortunately, he was young, so this tiredness was nothing.

Originally, he planned to jump out of bed like before, but he suddenly remembered those marks, so he obediently changed his clothes on the bed, and obediently got out of bed to put on his shoes.Even when folding the quilt, he was careful, for fear that Liu Yan and others would notice something.Fortunately, when Liu Miao folded the quilt, he found that the marks were already very shallow, and they would not have been noticed at all if they were not close.Therefore, Liu Miao let out a long sigh of relief, thinking that he had been a boy in two lifetimes and was so frightened by the nocturnal emission, it was really... ridiculous.

After tidying up everything, Liu Miao and others left the dormitory and felt the school gate.According to the arrangement of the teachers, people with different test numbers headed for different buses, because everyone's test rooms are different.Jiangnan Province is a traditional agricultural province, and Baoqing City is also an emerging city that is just preparing to transform from an agricultural city to a tertiary industry city, so Baoqing City still retains many traces of an agricultural city.For example, there are a lot of children.Although the family planning policy is also a national policy, the state still allows rural families to have a second child, especially if the first child is a girl. In addition, there are some situations where children are born illegally, so the source of students in Baoqing City is still very rich.In addition, Baoqing City also has two minority autonomous counties, and the state does not have to follow the family planning policy. Therefore, many children in Baoqing have at least one or two brothers and sisters.For example, Qin Gang has a biological elder sister, while Sun Zhengfeng has a biological younger brother.Yang Zhenghua, who was exaggerated as if he was sent to the first class, has three older sisters and two older brothers, and one younger sister.Therefore, there are many schools in the urban area and suburban counties of Baoqing City, which facilitates the operation of applying for exams from different schools.

Baoqing No. 108 Middle School is a junior high school with relatively poor qualifications. It was originally a school for the children of Baoqing Smelting Company.It’s just that the Baoqing Smelter has been closed for many years, and the original children’s school was restructured into No. 108 Middle School, which was accepted by the Baoqing City Education Bureau.Now there are only Baoqing Tobacco Factory Children’s School and Baoqing Textile Factory Children’s School in Baoqing City, and a cousin of Liu Miao and Liu Yan is a student of Textile Middle School.

Sitting in the car, Liu Miao was thinking wildly while looking at the roadside scenery.This seemingly small city has seemingly endless places waiting for you to discover.