Chapter 105 Su Xuanmian was shocked
"You're welcome." Su Xuanmian was surprised and thought about it.
Keigo Higashino on Earth, "The Witch of Laplace" can sell 260,000 copies in 2016 in 2016. You should know that in 2019, the sales of more than 40,000 copies in full-day is almost the worst, but Keigo Higashino's single-day sales can break this ceiling in 2016. What awesome, and the suspect is Higashino's four masterpieces.
Speaking of it, the writer of mystery novels in the island country is a bit magical. It seems that after writing four representative works, it is completely impossible to surpass them. The four masterpieces of mystery works of Higashino: "Malice", "After School", "White Night Walk", and "The Dedication of Suspect X".
Then Shimada Soji's four masterpieces: "Crime of the Slant House", "Knight of the Other World", "Astrology and Killing Magic", "Wonderful Imagination, Sky Movement".
Then the four masterpieces of Henggou's official history: "The Murder Incident of the Origin", "Prison Gate Island", "Eight Tomb Village", "Night Travel"
Back to the point, Su Xuanmian listened to Shiraishi Qian talking about various things, such as the suspect in the bookstore sold out again, and it is very rare to sign a contract with three printing in the first month. Overall, it seems to be chatting, but in fact there is another topic vaguely.
About half an hour later, Su Xuanmian listened to all the talk of Shiraishi Qian, and then asked: "What's wrong with editor-in-chief Shiraishi? If you have anything to do, you can just say it. We have worked together once."
As the suspect was successful, although Shiraishi Qian, who was the recommended person, did not comply with the rules, was too successful, so Shiraishi Qian was promoted to editor-in-chief, and the focus of his work was to communicate with Su Xuanmian.
"Su Jun's short stories are also very popular in Chaoxing Newspaper, and have already been serialized more than a dozen. Our publisher wants to choose a few of them as a collection of short stories and then publish a book. Of course, our Quick Wave Dream Wings Publishing House still hopes to cooperate with Su Jun again." Shiraishi Qiandao.
"It's no problem to release a collection of short stories." Su Xuanmian said: "But the suspect has only been released for a month as a new book, and it will be released again. Will it be too fast?"
After all, Su Xuanmian worked in a publishing house for a while in his previous life. One author published two books at the same time. Unless it was the first and second, such as strong continuity, and multiple volumes of one book, books would be tied up with each other.
It sounds incredible. When both books are good, it should have a positive effect according to common sense, but in fact it is not. Simply put, both books are good, but not many people will buy two books at the same time or even two books in a short period of time. Most people will choose to buy one.
In fact, this is like hunger marketing. Have you ever thought that you will buy anything you will buy anyway, and you will never buy anything you can’t buy anyway. So what is the meaning of hunger marketing?
It is too mysterious to say what to attract potential customers. From the perspective of business management, the purpose of hunger marketing is to increase priority. For example, if you want to buy this pair of shoes or not, you may go with money to buy clothes, thinking about buying them again after a while, but it is very likely that you will forget them after a while. But hunger marketing, I tell you that these shoes are limited, and you can't buy them if you don't buy them. It's great, then your mind will become buying them immediately, because you have improved your priority level for these shoes.
Think about it carefully, if you really want to buy something, you might sell it because of discounts, but will you really go and buy it because of limited quantities? Obviously not, and publishing two books at the same time is actually giving priority to each other.
"Hi, our publishing house has naturally considered the issue that Su Jun mentioned. First select the short stories and then publish them in the collection. It is expected that it will be two months later. By then, Su Jun's first book has been published for three months, so there will be no problem." Shiraishi Qiandao.
Ninety days is indeed a suitable time, and the above is judged by Su Xuanmian based on his own experience.
Su Xuanmian said: "Since Editor-in-Chief Bai Shi said there is no problem, then I naturally believe it."
"Hi!" Hearing that the writer believed in his words, Shiraishi's chest was filled with blood. He said: "Generally speaking, if a writer sells best, three books a year are the limit. If there are more books, it will consume the writer's own potential, which means that each book is the least between four months, but Su Jun's long and short stories have nothing in common in terms of writing or subject matter."
Because Su Xuanmian trusts so much, Shiraishi Chi wanted to explain their thoughts to show that the publisher attaches great importance to the matter of collections.
"Even if it was not Su Jun's little habit, it wouldn't even be seen as a writer's work at all. So after our publishing house's Shushi research class, the calculations showed that it would be fine in about 90 days." Shiraishi Qiandao.
"Oh? What kind of little habits are my little habits? I am writing books with a 'real writing skills'. How could I have a little habit?" Su Xuanmian frowned and asked seriously.
Shiraishi Chi was very curious about what the real writing skills were, but out of respect and politeness, he had to answer people's questions first. He asked: "I don't know if there is any masterpiece in Su Jun's family that has been published in Chaoxing Newspaper."
Su Xuanmian didn't buy it, but he knew that someone must have bought it. He turned to look at his roommate and said, "Did you buy it with Big Cat?"
The big cat nodded, and outsiders did not emphasize Maosang, but just returned to the bedroom and brought the Chaoxing News.
"Thank you." Shiraishi Qian turned the newspaper and said: "This issue of Su Jun is serialized in Lapis lazuli fantasy. I am quite impressed by this short story. Su Jun, please read it here."
Su Xuanmian looked in the direction of Shiraishi Qianfen. [There seems to be only a few dozen foreign characters, so this method can be adopted. But if each kana and Chinese character needs to be made, wouldn’t it be enough to cast a large number of movable characters? And each of them has the same shape and no meaning at all. Unlike woodblock printing, there is a unique style of each carving master. Kana, Chinese characters, and illustrations are all integrated on a piece of paper, and the printing of the book really has to be printed with woodblock.]
"And, Su Jun likes this method of wording very much, and there are also some among the suspects." Shiraishi Qiandao
Su Xuanmian was seriously shocked: "It's true!"
"Su Jun definitely didn't go to the comment forum of Chaoxing News. On the comment forum, a reader named Zhilu discovered it. Then more and more readers who bought the suspect's books have discovered it, so many people know it now." Shiraishi Chidao Shiraishi
Su Xuanmian was silent. From Shiraishi Chi, he should have no idea about his writing habits, and now he was told by outsiders that his mood was very complicated.
Chapter completed!