Due to the New York Times, in the United States, and even in the entire Western World, its influence was simply too great.
With this incident, a curious situation arose where the media formed a consensus to support one another in difficulty.
Thus, what was originally an outcry against online piracy quickly transformed into a conventional media encirclement of the New York Times.
Click-through rates, the weapons wielded, soared high.
"Arcane Throne" benefited from this easterly wind, with its sales skyrocketing.
In the end, within a week, it climbed to the 16th position on the bestseller list, just one place ahead of "A Song of Ice and Fire."
Even more astonishingly, over at Princeton, a theoretic physics professor who was fond of fantasy literature took notice of the first volume of "Arcane Throne."
Finding the concept that "knowledge is power" particularly intriguing, he recommended the novel to the school.
