When the hand on the wall clock was about to point to 2:00 midnight, the phone in the office finally rang.
The humming sound that came from time to time stopped abruptly at this moment.
Osborne had already placed the ball on the fairway of the 10-foot-long indoor golf green, and his swing arm, which was preparing to put, stopped abruptly.
This action almost twisted the CEO's waist.
"Oooh."
Uncle Osborne rubbed his back and turned to look at the black landline phone on the table that was beeping.
This is Scholastic's internal phone number.
These days, almost only government agencies and large enterprises still use this kind of fixed telephone to connect various functional departments together.
Osborne was waiting for this report from within the company.
Tonight, the lights in the headquarters building are still on at midnight.
In addition to his president's office, there's an entire floor below where the marketing department is located.
The marketing department will compile statistics on the first-day sales data of the "Little Prince" fairy tale book across the British Isles, and then report it to the president himself as soon as possible.
Osborne didn't even put down his cue. He took two quick steps and sat down on the desk without any image.
He glanced down at the phone number displayed on the LCD screen.
After taking a deep breath, the CEO answered the phone with the attitude of a father waiting outside the delivery room to greet the nurse.
"Hello, this is the president's office, I'm Osborne."
The moment the call was connected, Osborne's tone returned to calm.
"Um...yes, I'm listening...wait a moment, I'll take a pen and write it down."
The CEO put the golf club under his arm, picked up the pen and notes on his desk, and started writing.
"This number has been confirmed. Is the news reliable? Okay, I understand... The sales results on the first day can't explain anything. The last laugh is to outperform the entire sales cycle. We still need to work hard together... Well, Colleagues in the marketing and sales department have worked hard.”
"Communicate more with Ofsted (British Education Standards Agency). If you can be included in the recommended textbooks for public schools next year, I will get you an extra bonus... That's it, everyone goes back and rest early."
President Osborne maintained his noble and cold voice until the last moment before putting down the phone.
He put down the phone receiver.
Slowly raise the note in your hand to your eyes.
"Ah."
The corner of the president's mouth twitched slightly.
Then the second, the third... until the smile was like a persimmon turning from green to red overnight in autumn, flowing from the inside out on the cheeks, turning into a hearty laugh that could not be concealed.
"Hahaha……"
Osborne jumped off the table, walked over, pulled out his club and swung it like a baseball.
He let the golf ball pop up and hit a Christmas tree decorated with millions of sales milestones, and then bounced back and smashed the screen of a Dell laptop computer.
The CEO didn't seem to realize it, he just looked up to the sky and laughed.
He tossed the note and golf club around and spread his arms.
To the accompaniment of the jingling of medals on the tree, he opened his mouth and exhaled at the volume of a tenor.
"~Country road!"
This loud sound almost made the secretary lady outside the suite think that there was a wolf howling in the president's office room.
If his office wasn't a hundred meters high in the sky, it would be surrounded by smooth glass walls.
With this Pavarotti-like shout, all the sparrows in London might be frightened and fly up.
"It's cool."
Osborne continues to have fun.
On the falling note paper, three different sets of numbers were marked, respectively coming from the sales statistics of the three books ranked in the top three today.
[Author of "Reality": Colin Hoover (Today's sales volume 6537)]
[Author of "Spare Tire": Prince Harry (Today's sales: 12256)]
[Author of "The Little Prince": Saint-Exupéry (today's sales volume 12,296)]
With a slight advantage of only 40 books.
The "Little Prince" project he led the sale of has become the best-selling product in the UK today!
Is the tmd champion!
This is certainly not the first time that Osborne has won the sales day championship among the projects he has handled in his career.
Last year's biography of Federer, "Green Shade, Clay, Grand Slam," also won the daily sales champion.
Even before Colin Hoover's romance was hyped up by Tiktok, he briefly won the weekly sales champion of "The Moon" for two weeks.
certainly.
Later he was beaten by others.
But this is definitely the most satisfying time in Osborne's career to win the Japanese sales championship.
How much money was spent on publishing a biography of Federer, pre-heating various media, production funds, and channel promotion! How much did "The Little Prince" cost in total?
Such celebrity biographies sell very well.
But just because everyone knows that the sales volume will not be low, the publisher will also earn a reputation and cost. There will definitely not be any losses, but most of the profits will belong to the celebrities themselves.
Anyway, if you don’t publish it, there will be other publishing companies willing to rush to publish it.
Books that enter the public domain are public resources, and those sold are pure income without even paying a dime to the original author.
Only the translator and painter get a commission of about ten points.
Almost all the money sold comes from the group's European income, and even the funds for publicity and promotion come from the headquarters.
Isn't Osborne happy?
Moreover, celebrity biographies were popular at the beginning, and after two years of sales, readers became stale.
"The Life of Steve Jobs" was so popular back then. Everyone in the subways around the world wanted to read it. It was also a monster that sold nearly 10 million copies in its first year.
Ten years later, it was not even in the top 100 bestseller lists.
The initial sales of world famous books are tepid, but they are very strong. After ten years of sales, they may still have sales figures of more than 30% in the first year. "Reminiscences of Lost Time" is so long and stinky that it is impossible to find a book in the whole of Britain that ten thousand people could read carefully from beginning to end.
From the time it was sold in 1913 to today, it still sells 100,000 copies every year around the world.
Especially "The Little Prince" is explosive enough. On the first day, it topped the sales list in the UK. If it didn't explode, who would explode?
The estimated total sales volume of 300,000 copies was 4% of the annual sales plan on the first day alone.
At this rate, the first batch of printed books would be sold out in just one month without even taking a year.
Of course, a lot of the previously accumulated sales demand and online orders from die-hard fans of "The Little Prince" were released on the first day of release, and it is difficult to have the grand opening of the first day in the following days.
Sales will continue to drop significantly in two days, and a stable sales figure will be obtained after five or six days.
But those are also the top three in the sales list.
He produced a hit book, which dampened the arrogance of art director Charlie and enhanced the confidence of the board of directors.
If President Osborne is not happy, who will be happy?
"Okay, Miss Anna, since the painter you recommended is so promising, then..." Osborne was happy enough. He swiped the iPad in front of him and found an email in his mailbox that had been edited in advance.
[To: Scholastic Writing and Art Masters Award Selection Committee. Nomination for the Group’s European Award-winning Candidate—Illustrator Detective Cat]
He stared at the email title for two seconds and then pressed send.
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Dulwich International High School.
It’s the last week before April Fool’s Day, and the stage in the campus auditorium is packed.
The multi-colored spotlights refract blurred light in the smoke created by dry ice, like the on-glaze enamel painted by Eastern Xia porcelain craftsmen.
The school will hold a social party with several other international middle schools on Rose Valentine's Day on May 14 as usual. Students in grade seven and above can participate.
This is a favorite campus celebration for Dulwich students every year.
It is more important than school team games, and more exciting than winter and summer vacations.
In addition to performances by various clubs and drama rehearsals, there is also a grand finale where the boys and girls choose their partners to dance together.
The young body rubs against each other through the layer of evening dress, and the ears and temples rub against each other.
The whole air will be filled with the smell of perfume, sweat and hormones.
Even the school's physical hygiene class will be arranged to add one class per week a few weeks before the campus dance to provide vaccinations.
Even though the school has worked so hard.
Not long after the school dance every few years, you can still hear gossip about the unexpected pregnancy of a certain female classmate.
all in all.
The sorority dance is the first step into formal social occasions for the lower class students, and it is also the last carnival for the graduating class students in their high school years.
Wait until the social dance in May is over.
Senior students must go all out to prepare for the admissions interview with their portfolios and apply to their favorite universities. This marks a formal separation between each other's lives.
The chances of a boyfriend and girlfriend breaking up in a long-distance relationship are close to 100%.
The graduation dance is the last youthful memory in their middle school life.
One can imagine.
The excitement and excitement among the Dulwich students.
Now that there is still more than a month left before the prom, large-scale rehearsals have already begun.
"Gu Weijing, can we dance together then?"
The girl in the dancing skirt wearing a sexy wheat-colored leather outfit whispered and laughed with the little sisters on the cheerleading team beside her, and then walked to the boy who was sitting on a chair in the corner and was holding a Chinese painting textbook "Tianyu Liufang". Said openly.
Gu Weijing looked away from the book, with a helpless expression on his face.
[If you're famous enough, then everything will be easy enough. (If you are famous enough, then everything will be easy enough.)] -Sports star James Hunt faced a TV reporter asking him how many girlfriends he had At that time, he left this famous motto in the history of journalism.
This old man is the 1976 F1 world champion and a two-generation playboy who is as famous as Wilt Chamberlain in sports and basketball. He dated more than 5,000 girls in his life. His peak record was during the F1 Japanese Grand Prix, when he slept with 35 different British Airways stewardesses for 35 consecutive days.
The Hilton hotel suite is his palace, and the entire airline's stewardesses are his concubines.
Facing the astonished interview by the gossip reporters, Hunter just shook off his bohemian blond hair and said coolly that it was not that he was too wild, but that it was too easy to pick up girls.
The cultural atmosphere of Western society is completely different from that of reserved Easterners.
Almost many people have a romantic plot in mind about dating celebrities.
International schools are like a smaller version of Westernized society.
In the past, when watching TV, Gu Weijing could always see European and American dramas about campus youth. There were often influential figures on campus who had the priority in choosing a spouse in the school. They could sleep with whomever they wanted, and date whomever they wanted. Which girl is dating.
He has been studying in an international school like a transparent person for so many years.
It wasn't until my headshot was hung prominently on the bulletin board at the school entrance by the principal that I finally fully realized the unique sense of superiority that belongs to school celebrities in campus culture.
The social status on campus has improved more than a little bit.
In Gu Weijing's impression.
After entering senior years, the girlfriends of the lead singer of the school band took turns, the girlfriends of Jerry, the main player of the school team, took turns, and even the cheerleader Miss Koko also had girlfriends.
Now,
If he wants to be extravagant enough.
Gu Weijing might as well live a life where his girlfriends take turns.
The girl in front of me is called Misha.
Yangon Port is Myanmar's only maritime port and one of the few large ports in Southeast Asia that can berth 100,000-ton giant ships. A large number of containers filled with rice and textiles are shipped from here every year.
Misha's father is a supply chain management specialist for the French GEODIS international shipping company in Myanmar. She is French and has one-eighth South African black ancestry.
Except for the slightly thick lips, this is basically not noticeable.
Her facial features are not exquisite, but her figure is very attractive, especially with her healthy wheat-colored skin that has been soaked by the sun through regular exercise. She can be called hot.
There are always many people chasing girls like this on campus. She might not have even looked at Gu Weijing before, but now she took the initiative to find Gu Weijing to be her dance partner. The ambiguity in her words was self-evident.
Even... Misha has already found Gu Weijing's third girl who wants to be his dance partner.
There is also an elementary school girl who is one grade below.
Gu Weijing is not handsome, and he cannot be called ugly either.
He just doesn't dress up very much. He wears an ordinary school uniform and has an ordinary round hair.
Upon closer inspection, he looks quite charming, and has a kind of warmth and restraint that boys in international schools don't often have.
Not many people paid attention to him before.
The few who had some ideas were also intimidated by Miss Sandnu's majesty.
There are boys everywhere on campus who are from better families than Gu Weijing and are more romantic. They were reluctant to stretch out their hooves to seduce the little donkey tied up at the home of the student council president.
Investment and return are not directly proportional!
It's different now.
It seems that many girls on campus have some vague thoughts about this newly minted young artist from the Yangon Painting and Calligraphy Association.
"Misha, I'm sorry. If I need to dance with you, I may need to ask my girlfriend's permission first."
Gu Weijing said with a smile, using the familiar standard answer that he had said several times before.
"Who? Mona, I haven't seen her with you recently."
Misha is filled with the romantic boldness of a French girl.
She did not face the alienation hidden in Gu Weijing's polite words like the first two girls. Instead, she quietly took a step forward and licked her lips.
The protruding curve of the chest that stretched out the school uniform shirt almost hit Gu Weijing's face.
"Gu, I admit that Miss Sandnu is quite beautiful, but I'm not bad either." Miss Misha blinked her big eyes seductively.
sleep earlier.
(End of chapter)
