Adonis wrote a poem like this:

"When I sink my eyes into your eyes, I glimpse the deep dawn...I feel the universe flowing, between your eyes and me."

Is it a poet who pretends to be amazing, or is it that a woman's eyes really have such a great energy level? He can only verify it by looking up and facing An Younan. But he dare not.

A person who can be called an uncle at the age of thirty dared not see a girl in her twenties. It sounds a bit cowardly, but it is indeed dangerous. He is afraid of seeing signs of heat silence in her eyes.

He lowered his eyebrows and head, pretended not to see An Younan, and said to Duan Xiaosang:

"The publishing houses you just mentioned seem to be quite difficult, right? Is there anything else?"

Duan Xiaosang also tacitly pretended not to see it, lit the notebook with the tip of his pen, and continued to follow the topic just now:

"The emerging private publishing houses are the first to recommend Zhongxing and Kui Mai. Zhongxing has strong packaging capabilities and is good at creating best-selling books. Shen Qingfeng is the author of them. Kui Mai is very popular recently and is good at marketing. Especially likes to catch hot topics..."

An Younan, who was ignored, suddenly stretched out his white hand and sniffed on the table willfully, stirring the notebook and manuscript paper into pieces.

Duan Xiaosang held his forehead and sighed: "Miss, what do you want?"

"I was so bored that I heard it."

An Younan yawned and sat down between the two, her white and slender legs stretched out from the hem of her nightgown, straightened.

Duan Xiaosang said: "It's not time for you to appear yet. Why don't you wait for me to finish the talk first?"

"It's too slow, I can't wait. And when I think of you after I finish speaking, he finds that he has no choice but to ask me to help him to turn over. I am so excited that I want to laugh!" An Younan's eyes flashed with excitement.

"If you say this in front of this stubborn person, won't he even die and beg you?"

"You don't understand, here's the fun point."

Who is the stubborn? Very... Funny? Where is fun?

Wang Zixu was shocked.

Duan Xiaosang said: "After he is a writer, he has a strong sense of self-esteem. You have to pay more attention to his face, right?"

An Younan said: "I hate people who are small in ability and have face. I hate people like this the most. I am not hinting at anything, but just stating an objective fact. I hate men who are small in ability and have face."

This sounds familiar.

Duan Xiaosang said: "It's small but small, but the little one is also cute, so you can't laugh at it for this."

"Hehe, just laugh, mixed fish~carp~blue and white fish~dongxing spot~"

Wang Zixu felt that he could speak in private when only girls existed, even though there was another one here. Obviously they didn't treat him as a man.

But Dongxingban is quite expensive, so he was not angry either.

He reminded them politely: "I'm still sitting here."

An Younan slapped the table: "You show off with him quickly. If you want to turn the tables by sales, you can only ask me for this path!"

"Why don't you tell him yourself?"

An Younan was silent for a moment and said, "You'd better tell me."

Duan Xiaosang showed a particularly disgusting look: "This child has learned to be shy."

An Younan punched her.

Because Wang Zixu was completely ignorant of the publishing industry, Duan Xiaosang spent another hour laying the foundation for Wang Zixu's basic knowledge.

Such as "staircase royalties", "printing cycle", "opening data", "book number management", "book store goods", "channel goods", "book number management"... Each noun has a large number of data frames and endogenous mechanisms, and there are still a large number of unspoken rules in practice.

After hearing this, Wang Zixu was very drowsy for a while, and finally tried to summarize:

"So, if you want "Stone Fire" to become a hit, you need to reach at least the top 50 in sales list, and the category list reaches the top 10 or even the top 5?"

"right."

"If you want to increase sales, you need channel recommendations and bookstores at eye-catching booths."

"That's right."

"If you want to recommend both channels and bookstores, you need to have a high sales volume to be on the list."

“That’s right.”

Wang Zixu thought for a while and said, "So what you mean is that if you want to sell well, you must sell well? Isn't this a turnaround?"

Duan Xiaosang said: "This is the case in the world. The more money you have, the richer you are. The poorer you are, the less money you can make, the Matthew effect."

Wang Zixu was speechless after hearing this and felt deeply saddened.

She drew a horizontal line in the air and said:

"There is a golden thread in book sales. If it exceeds that line and forms a virtuous cycle, books will become more and more popular; on the contrary, they will form a vicious cycle. The less popular the product, the less it is, the less it is distributed, and eventually disappears into the market."

Wang Zixu pondered for a moment and said, "I believe "Fire in Stone" will surpass that line."

"So fart!" Duan Xiaosang rubbed his eyebrows, "It's hard for your book to have the best-selling qualifications!"

Wang Zixu raised his eyebrows and expressed doubts.

He previously published a book called "The Little Prince's Love Poem" as a Little Prince, but it has not been removed from the best-selling area of ​​the bookstore.

He didn't care much about the fate of the book, and he just felt that it was on the best-selling list easily. So he subconsciously felt that this was not a very difficult thing.

Duan Xiaosang explained: "Your book is indeed very well written, but it is too long! It takes a long time for a serious novel of this length to ferment the reputation of the word of mouth, and the promotion and promotion period has passed.

"Even if you want to become popular with the long-tail effect, there is no point in the public opinion. Readers will only read it silently and will not help you promote it everywhere. Now the book market is rolling again, and your book will not win the opportunity to add a print if you don't win a prize.

"Think about it, if you don't print it, your books will only be stock in the market, and others can't buy them even if they want to. If the publisher doesn't recommend them, it will naturally appear on the list. In the end, it will disappear like a drop of water in the vast sea of ​​books."

Duan Xiaosang shook his arms and made a wave. An Younan was very supportive and began to applaud: "Good words!"

The prince opened his mouth and subconsciously wanted to give a counterexample of "The Three-Body Problem".

But if you think about it carefully, the two periods of sales explosion in "Three-Body Problem" were recommended by celebrities such as Zuckerberg and Lei Jun, and the other was won the Hugo Award.

Without these two public opinion explosion points, just relying on reputation, this book would not have become so popular that it would be the first place on the list for 137 consecutive weeks. Or in other words, it would take enough time to sell it to this level, so that everyone is old.

Wang Zixu asked: "But my book has been so long, it is already an established fact and I can't change it even if I want to."

Duan Xiaosang said: "Silly, I mean, the important thing about selling books is marketing. Relying on the event of breaking the circle, it will launch a period of sales soaring, and it will be on the rankings in one fell swoop! If your book wants to turn the tables, you must take this path!"

Wang Zixu said: "How to package it? I am not a person who is good at packaging. I haven't even wrapped a book cover when I was in school."

An Younan gently bit his thumb and said, "Will you just use the corners of the last book cover to roll up?"

Duan Xiaosang said: "It's time to book it. It's a waste of time to book books. None of the top students in my class can take care of it. I also bought the books at the beginning, but I found it troublesome since high school, and I didn't even get it. But I'm a god even though I haven't bought it since I was a child."

An Younan sneered and moved his thumb out of his lips: "Do you think he is not a god?"

Duan Xiaosang was stunned and nodded: "Yes."

"Can we concentrate on chatting and not diverge at will?"

Duan Xiaosang humbly accepted Wang Zixu's proposal and continued:

"You don't need to pack it yourself, you need a publisher to pack you, or only they have a way to pack it. However, this requires them to be willing to spend money."

Wang Zixu was stunned and thought, is she hinting that she exposed the little prince's identity?

Did An Younan tell her about being the little prince?

He looked at the two of them separately, and found that they looked normal, and said tentatively: "I have such a bad relationship with the Wenhui Association. They should not be willing to take this risk, right?"

Duan Xiaosang smiled and said, "That may not be possible. You are so popular online now. As long as you manage your personality well, the publisher will definitely be willing to take this risk. The question is, how do you show your personality?"

Wang Zixu was puzzled that this was also a blind spot in knowledge.

Although he had the image of a "little prince" in unknown places, it was a coincidence and was not done deliberately.

He is not good at hypocrisy, and he can build an image to complete his job well, but if he is forced to force his personality, he will not do it well.

"How is it considered a character management?" he asked. "Or, what character can I have?"

"Don't you have a ready-made character?" Duan Xiaosang said, "Literary Knight, or Don Quixote of literature. Of course, the latter is more clownish and is not good for you. You can consider using the character behind to win the honor after failure."

Wang Zixu respects Xie Bumin.

"I know you are a little psychologically unbearable, but all writers have personalities. Even if they are reluctant, the outside world and readers will give them a personalities." An Younan said.

She continued: "For example, Gu Zao, his character is a wild and unruly young writer, and all kinds of packaging and publicity highlight this trait. In fact, he himself is a bit nervous;

"For example, Xiao Mengyin, you have seen her person, but her character in the outside world is a sharp and beautiful writer who is as cold as ice!"

Wang Zixu covered his mouth and thought about it, it seemed to be true. But Xiao Mengyin's character is also a bit outrageous, and the contrast is too large.

Suddenly, his heart skipped a beat and he asked subconsciously: "Is Chen Qingluo a human being?"

Duan Xiaosang said: "Chen Qingluo's character is a genius literary girl. She has been a genius literary girl for many years."

An Younan continued: "It's true that she has always been a promotional girl. But she looks pretty good, otherwise she would be embarrassed to print her photos."

Wang Zixu pursed his lips tightly, and remained silent, apologizing to Chen Qingluo in his heart.

"How old is she? She is almost 30?" Duan Xiaosang asked.

"29 years old." Wang Zixu replied, "one year younger than me."

An Younan asked keenly: "How do you know so clearly?"
To be continued...