The next morning, Wang Jian looked at the website's backend data.
"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" had been viewed 27,000 times, with an average of over 5,000 comments per viewing.
Despite a considerable part of the comments criticizing the incoherent plot and excessive descriptions of irrelevant characters and scenery,
it had not affected the number of payments.
As of 9 A.M. this morning, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" had generated over 50,000 US Dollars in sales.
After accounting for the website's 50% cut,
the novel had earned the author over 20,000 US Dollars in just one night.
Wang Jian then looked at the sales data for "A Song of Ice and Fire" and his own "Arcane Throne" collected by Dorsey.
Excluding the highest sales on the release day for these two books,
he calculated further,