"What did you say? Can you repeat it and make it clearer!" Gu Qing took a breath. He actually heard it clearly, but he couldn't believe the content of the other person's words.
""Dragon Babu" exploded, sales exploded. After being launched on major e-commerce platforms, the inventory was completely sold out in less than half an hour. In less than an hour after being launched on the major physical bookstores, all the inventory was sold out. Now They’re all urging us to get books, and several of our contact numbers have been busted.”
"Then hurry up and send them the book. Didn't we print 300,000 copies for the first time?"
"It's been sent. The last batch of inventory has just been sent out. However, based on the feedback from major e-commerce platforms and bookstores, it is estimated that it will not take long, at most an hour."
"Then hurry up and print it! Do you want me to teach you how to do it?"
"No, no, no, I've already informed the printing house. It's up to Mr. Gu to decide how much more to print."
"Let's print 1 million more copies first."
"1 million? What if..."
"What a fart! I still think 1 million copies is a bit low. I don't even think about it. It's only been 2 hours since it went online, and the inventory of 300,000 copies has been gone. What's the use of 1 million copies?"
"Yes, I will notify the printing house right away."
After hanging up the phone, Gu Qing calmed down for a moment. He finally knew what was wrong, and finally understood why the people who came to buy "Dragon Babu" later bought eight out of ten copies. Most of these people buy it for others, otherwise they are scalpers.
Recalling the scenes of Yuan Nan and the others mocking him not long ago, and looking at the lively scenes at the promotion meetings of the other three bookstores, Gu Qing shook his head. Suddenly smiled.
Let you have fun while we just keep silent and make a fortune.
"I just wonder what the expressions on these three people's faces will be like when they know the sales volume of "Dragon Babu"? It must be fun." Gu Qing thought in a wicked way.
Thinking of this, Gu Qing shouted to the staff at the scene: "Close the stall, close the stall."
"Ah? Mr. Gu, are you closing the stall so early?" A staff member was confused.
"The books are all sold out. Why don't you close the stall and stay here to bask in the sun?"
"I see that there are occasionally a lot of "Dragon Master" fans at the venue. We can bring some books from other places, and I think we can sell a lot of them."
"The stock is all gone, so what the heck!"
"The inventory is gone? No way? Didn't we print 300,000 copies?"
"Shh, keep a low profile. Don't say so much. Just go back and prepare for the celebration banquet. This month, all personnel's bonuses will be doubled."
"Wow! Long live!" The staff of Huaguo Bookstore closed the stall and left amid cheers.
Yuan Nan, Zheng Hao, and Li Xi shook their heads when they saw this scene, thinking that Gu Qing had given up. I never imagined that the 10,000 physical copies of "The Eight Parts of the Dragon" at Hua Guo Book Company would be sold out.
After all, their promotion meeting was booming, and they had only sold five or six thousand copies so far. Compared with the scene at Huaguo Bookstore, it would be good if the latter could sell a thousand copies.
What they didn't even expect was that the online and offline sales of "Dragon Movie" had exploded.
In fact, there are many people who did not expect that the physical book sales of "Dragon Babu" would explode.
He Wei, the manager of Tiantian Bookstore, is one of them.
Tiantian Bookstore is one of the best online bookstores in China. All physical books are generally sold. Because of this, the bookstore's page recommendation resources are very competitive.
Earlier, when Huaguo Book Company brought the physical book of "Dragon and the Eight Parts" to him to discuss the bookstore's recommended resources, He Wei refused in his heart. He had learned about "Dragon" and knew that it was a smash hit in the online literary world, but he didn't think "Dragon" would also be popular in the real world.
It's just that Huaguo Book Company is an important partner of Tiantian Bookstore. The two parties have cooperated for many years. Due to human feelings, He Wei finally gave "Dragon Babu" a homepage promotion, which was not bad but not bad.
As for the most conspicuous recommendation pages, he reserved them for "Beauty", "Angel", and "Midsummer". Because he is more optimistic about these three books, not the content of these three books, but the appeal of the three real entities Minghua, Xiaoxi and Qiao Jing.
It has been proven many times before that the appeal of these three big guys is simply terrifying. No matter how well written their books are, a large group of people will pay for them anyway, just like being poisoned.
Therefore, in addition to the recommendation position, he also purchased the most three physical books, "Beauty", "Angel", and "Midsummer", with 150,000 copies of each book. As for "Tian Long Ba Bu", he only purchased 20,000 yuan. This was due to human kindness. Otherwise, he would only have purchased 10,000 yuan, or chose another way of cooperation.
The so-called other way of cooperation is to sell it in bookstores and let the publishing house deliver the goods. In this kind of cooperation, the bookstore is actually an intermediary and can only get a small percentage of the commission. Compared with direct purchase, the profit will be much less.
Let’s put it this way, there will be two ways of cooperation between the bookstore and the publishing house. One is direct purchase and sales. The bookstore purchases the goods from the publishing house at the lowest price, and then sets its own price to sell in the bookstore. The difference between the selling price and the lowest price is the profit of the bookstore. With this kind of cooperation, the bookstore needs to bear certain risks, but it can get a lower base price and higher profits.
The second way of cooperation is that the publishing house is responsible for pricing and shipping, and the bookstore is responsible for sales and takes a commission. In this way of cooperation, the bookstore does not need to make any contributions. It is a sure-profit business, but it does not make much money.
Generally speaking, for books that are relatively promising, bookstores will choose to purchase them from the publishing house at a low price, and then sell them at their own price. For books that you don’t like, you will choose another way.
But He Wei soon regretted it, so much so that his thigh almost broke.
He originally thought that the fans of Minghua, Xiaoxi and Qiao Jing were crazy enough, but only after seeing the purchasing power of fans of "Dragon Movie" did he know what it means to be crazy.
At 10 o'clock, the four books "Beauty", "Angel", "Midsummer" and "Dragon" were launched simultaneously.
In less than 5 minutes, the 1,999 copies of "Dialogue" he set in stock were sold out. If it weren't for the fact that we received calls from fans of "Tian Long Ba Bu" backstage to inquire and complain, the entire Tiantian Bookstore wouldn't know about it.
But who would have thought of it? You know, the three books "Beauty", "Angel", and "Midsummer" with better and more prominent recommendation pages, the highest single sales volume at this time is only 500 copies. Fans of the authors of these three books have always been called "crazy" in the physical world.
But compared to the fans of "Dragon", how can the fans of Minghua and others be considered crazy? It's just like a small witch makes a big witch appear.
After receiving the complaint call, He Wei quickly added inventory to "Dragon Movie" again. This time he set up 1999 inventory. In less than 5 minutes, it ran out again.
"Hiss!" He Wei took a breath and added inventory to "Dragon Babu" again. This time he added 5,000 at once and watched the whole process. After 5 minutes, He Wei was stunned.
"It's gone now? Is it so scary?" He Wei murmured. Not believing in evil, he once again added inventory to "Dragon Babu". This time he directly set an inventory of 9999.
Ten minutes later, He Wei no longer knew how to describe his mood at this time. Because the stock of 9999 was sold out in less than 10 minutes!
"Holy shit! This is simply a bottomless pit!" Only then did He Wei know what "Dragon Babu" meant and what kind of impact it would have on the physical world.
They are not only sweeping everything in the online literary world, but also in the physical world like a dragon crossing a river. It should be noted that at this time, the sales volume of the three physical books including "Beautiful Beauty" was only two to three thousand.
I was just about to continue adding inventory to "Dragon Babu" and add 99,999 copies of stock at once, but suddenly I remembered that he had only purchased 20,000 copies of "Dragon Babu" before, and it seemed that now there were only 1,000 copies left in stock.
Thinking of this, He Wei quickly called the person in charge at Huaguo Bookstore, but was told that "Dragon Babu" was temporarily out of stock and was being rushed to print, but he would have to wait at least two days for the goods. Moreover, the purchase price is not the same as before, it has to be increased by 10% of the base price.
Two days, how much will this cost? The purchase price is still 10% higher, so how much will be lost?
If he had purchased hundreds of thousands of books directly at the beginning, and Tiantian Bookstore had them in stock these two days when others were out of stock, he would have probably made tens of millions!
No wonder He Wei regretted it so much that he almost broke his leg!
Fortunately, he had read the three books of "The Beauty" before. Compared with "The Eight Parts of the Dragon", these three books were nothing.
I'm telling you that you are ignorant! Now, okay, you picked up the sesame seeds and lost the watermelon, right?
Situations like this in Tiantian Bookstore are by no means rare. Several other online bookstore platforms have also encountered the same situation. The person in charge of the bookstore regretted it so much that he wanted to kill himself after buying a piece of tofu.
Some people in charge of the bookstore tried to flirt with people from Huaguo Bookstore to see if they could get the goods first and if they could get the goods at the previous reserve price, but they were all rejected.
feelings? Before "Dragon" was officially launched, you were unwilling to buy more copies. Why didn't you talk about feelings at that time? Now that you see "Dragon" becoming a hit, do you suddenly remember your feelings?
How can there be such a good thing in the world?
In short, Huaguo Book Company refused all requests from these bookstores without hesitation.
Online bookstores are like this, and offline bookstores are actually not much better.
Magic City Origin Bookstore is a typical example.
Origin Bookstore is the largest bookstore in the Magic City. Huaguo Bookstore put a lot of effort into distributing "Dragon Babu" to Origin Bookstore. Although the negotiation was finally settled, Origin Bookstore was only willing to purchase 10,000 copies of "Dragon". Eight".
As for the three books "Beauty", Origin Bookstore directly purchased 50,000 copies. The reason is similar to what He Wei thought. Compared with "Dragon", Cai Hu, the owner of Origin Bookstore, is more optimistic about the three books "Beauty". , not to mention the purchase at most, but also put the three books in the most conspicuous position.
Then, Cai Hu also regretted it so much that he almost broke his thigh.
At ten o'clock, as soon as the bookstore opened, a large group of people poured in. Indeed, many of them were fans of Minghua's big businessmen. But compared with the fans of "Dragon Babu", these big businessmen of Minghua The book fans are nothing.
After Minghua's book fans came in, they picked up the books "Beautiful Beauty" and tried to read them. About one-third of them paid, and two-thirds chose to leave.
If you are a fan of "Dragon", the general situation is like this. There are very few people who come in at one time, but there is an endless stream, and everyone comes in with a hurried look. After finding the placement of "Dragon Babu", they pick up one or several volumes of "Dragon Babu" without trying. Read it, pay without any hesitation, and then leave the bookstore in a hurry.
As long as you come here for "Tian Long Ba Bu", the payment rate is actually an astonishing 100%!
In less than an hour, tens of thousands of copies of "Dragon Babu" were sold out!
too crazy!
This is not an online bookstore, but an offline physical bookstore!
What does it mean that tens of thousands of copies of "Dragon Babu" were sold out in less than an hour? This means that in less than an hour, excluding some who bought a few copies of "Dragon Babu" at one time, at least eight to nine thousand "Dragon Babu" fans entered the Origin Bookstore.
Eight or nine thousand!
This is a lot of traffic!
Moreover, there was an endless stream of book fans who came to buy the physical books of "The Eight Parts of the Dragon". After Cai Hu discovered that there was not much stock of "The Eight Parts of the Dragon", he had already contacted Huaguo Book Company and finally managed to get 20,000 copies. The supply is good, but the price is 10% higher than before.
Then, after these 20,000 copies of "Dragon Babu" arrived at Origin Bookstore, they were sold out in less than two hours. After that, Cai Hu contacted Huaguo Bookstore. No matter what he said, he couldn't get the goods and had to wait two days.
Cai Hu contacted other bookstore owners and learned that other bookstores had encountered the same situation and could not get supplies, and the online bookstores had no supply. Only then did he believe that Huaguo Bookstore really had no inventory.
Only then did he give up.
But after giving up, Cai Hu regretted it very much!
It should be noted that when Huaguo Book Company contacted him before, they hoped that he could swallow 100,000 copies of the supply. The base price they offered was still very low, but he refused. If he had chosen to agree before, then with the ultra-low base price and the rare goods, how much money would he make from this!
Didn't you see that there is already a commotion among the "Dragon Ba Bu" book memes outside because you can't buy the physical book of "Dragon Ba Bu"?
Yes, fans of "Dragon" are already making a fuss!
After visiting all the online bookstores and offline bookstores and finding that the physical book of "Dragon Babu" cannot be purchased, fans of "Dragon Babu" have already started to make a fuss.
A large bookstore like Yuanyuan was almost besieged, and the post bar and book review area of "Dragon" were occupied by dissatisfied posts.
"What's going on? I've visited all the online bookstores and all the offline bookstores in Magic City, but I can't buy a copy of "Dragon Babu"? Tell me what's going on!"
"Me too! Damn it! Didn't you say that very few people went to the on-site promotion meeting? There were people who posted messages asking for support before, but this is the result?"
"I also saw that someone asked for support before seeing the on-site promotion meeting, so I took my time to do what I was doing. But when I finished what I was doing, I actually found that "The Eight Parts of the Dragon" was already hard to find. !”
"It's not like those turtle grandsons deliberately misled us, right? Want to monopolize "Dragon Babu"?" Someone said this.
Then, those book fans who had kindly supported "Dragon" were almost beaten to death, and they were so frightened that they quickly came out to respond.
"No! There are so many copies of "Dragon". How could we possibly finish them all? We were really afraid that "Dragon" wouldn't be sold and we would be beaten by the hot books like "The Beauty"."
"That's right, don't slander us. For the purpose of supporting "Dragon Babu", I only bought 5 copies."
"I have 4 copies."
"I have 8 copies!"
"Damn it, you're talking about slander! It's hard for us to find a book, but you bought so many copies by yourself. Hurry up and contribute."
"Brothers who have extra books in hand, I am willing to buy them from you at a high price. The price is easy to negotiate."
"If you are willing to sell, you can contact me, my phone number is..."
Of course some people are willing to sell it, but more people say they don’t want to sell it and the book has already been given away.
"I think you have found the wrong person, right? Shouldn't Huaguo Book Company be more responsible for taking the blame? "Dragon Babu" disappeared so quickly, they must not have printed many copies, right?"
"I know this. I happen to have a friend who works at Hua Guo Book Company, so my friend will be held accountable. I won't say who it is. I heard from him that the first printing of "The Eight Parts of the Dragon" was 300,000 copies."
"Only 300,000 copies? No wonder!"
"The genuine subscriptions for "The Eight Parts of the Dragon" alone are 180,000, and Huaguo Book Company has only printed 300,000 copies for the first time? Damn it! Who are you looking down on!"
As soon as this information came out, the official WeChat ID of Huaguo Book Company was immediately exploded, with all the comments below saying "whose 300,000 copies are being looked down upon". It made Gu Qing and others dumbfounded.
The topic "Who do you look down upon with 300,000 copies" has also become a hot search topic.
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