"Speaking of which, it's been half a month since you negotiated a contract with that Cook guy, right, how are the sales of the novels going?"
"It's okay. It's just that among the new books in the same period of time, it's still not comparable to some old authors who have become famous."
"You kid should be satisfied! You've just written your first book and achieved such results, what else do you want? Are you really going to compare yourself with those old authors who have been famous for many years?"
"Of course! At least I'm the junior of Sheriff Marcus, if I can't compete with them, it's not a disgrace to your old man."
"You brat ..."
On the passenger side of the police car, Li Congxin was laughing and joking with Sheriff Marcus of the Manhattan Police Department.
As the saying goes, it's good to have someone in the court, even in the comic book world of the United States is also the same.
Coincidentally, it was the squad led by Marcus that had responded to the police today. When he found out that the person in question was Li Congxin's, the focus of concern immediately changed from a street brawl case to whether Li Congxin's injuries were serious or not.
The few punks who apparently had a lot of previous convictions ran away when they heard the sirens sounding.
Li Congxin as the only party, or sheriff Marcus's acquaintance, then the truth of the matter is not as he said? In this way, Li Congxin became the victim of the New York City law and order bad phenomenon and the good citizen of the courage to fight criminals. In the police station by the specialized medical personnel to carry out some simple bandages, by the Marcus sheriff personally drove him home, just like a pair of princelings treatment.
If the few punks saw this scene, I wonder if they would think twice about calling 911?
"I suggest you buy yourself a car. At the very least, do not try to save trouble by walking those remote alleys, New York's security ... "Proceeding to Li Congxin's home downstairs, Marcus also could not help but urge a sentence, but his status really do not have the qualifications to spit out the security problem, words can only be dry coughing said: "You have to be mind safety."
"Thank you Uncle Marcus for reminding me, I will." Li Congxin promised painfully, but what exactly would happen, he did not say.
Will he buy a car, or will he be safe, or will he continue to walk down remote alleys? When he went upstairs after bidding farewell to Marcus, Li Congxin glanced at the several hundred points of impression value that had skyrocketed on the system interface.
.........
Driven by interests, the efficiency of the MiG can still be guaranteed.
After the signing of the contract, only a week's time, the publishing house completed a series of preparations such as cover design, advertising, typesetting and printing, and on Monday of the second week, it officially began to go on sale in the city's major bookstores.
However, because of the preliminary publicity work done more hastily, coupled with Li Congxin is a newcomer on the ground, the sales of the first two days on the shelves can only be regarded as passable, and did not show the strong DouBao should be.
However, on the third day, the sales of the "DouBao CangDao" started to soar, and after the first week's sales were tallied, it had already crushed other newcomers' works by a large margin, and even had the momentum to match the sales of the old authors.
In the second week, this momentum became a reality. With a cumulative sales volume of 100,000 copies, Dou Di Cang Dome was ranked in the middle of the hot-selling books list. This achievement could be said to have already taken its place in the literary world of Rice, bearing in mind that those participating in this competition were all the books that were released at the same time as Dou Di Cang Dome, including but not limited to novels.
To give a simple example, the Playboy series of magazines published in the same issue is also within the scope of this evaluation!
If we only counted the sales of novel-based works, "Dueling Vault" was already the best of the best.
As for why the sales were so coincidental, just reaching the round number of 100,000 copies, no more and no less?
In fact, it is not because of coincidence, but because the publisher printed 100,000 copies!
The 100,000 copies of the first book of "Doojou Cangdao" were declared sold out on the Friday of the second week. Thus missing out on the prime time weekend made its sales suffer quite a bit. And if it was in China, for the sake of performance, the publisher would have definitely organized workers to work overtime to reprint additional copies to meet the market demand.
However, this is a country of "freedom and democracy", and the workers' awareness of their rights is very strong.
Overtime?
Oh!
Does not exist!
But in this way, it coincidentally fits the concept of hunger marketing.
For a while, catching up on "Doojang Cangdao" has become a fashion, especially among teenagers, this trend is more and more unstoppable. During the school season, owning a copy of the book has become a capital to show off in front of classmates.
Students in the classroom discussion of the topic are closely around the "Doo Breaking Cang Dome" to start, what "do not deceive the young poor", "burning skill", "red lotus fire", "Horrible as this" became their mantra, those who have seen it can boast about it, those who have not seen it can only ducks listen to thunder.
The duck listening to the thunder of course students are not willing, but the book on the market has been sold out, they can only save up enough money, and in the heart secretly vowed, in the new book cited, the first time to go to buy a hardcover deluxe edition, so that you in front of me to get in front of the Arthur!
.........
Within a bar located in the Manhattan district, two teenagers who looked like Quicksilver and a fat man were chatting around the topic of "Doo Wop".
One of the black-haired youths who looked like Quick Silver suddenly spoke, "You two, have you ever thought about becoming a superhero yourselves?"
The other blonde youth who looked like Quick Silver immediately shook his head and said, "Wow! Dave you're crazy, you can think of such things? After all, 'Doo Wop' is just a story, so don't take it too seriously, not to mention that 'Xiao' isn't a superhero in the traditional sense."
The "black-haired quick silver" known as Dave shook his head seriously and said, "I know, but I see a brave and persistent heart in him, and I believe that's what it takes to become a superhero."
At this time, the little fat man sitting on the side also couldn't help but open his mouth and said, "Oh, Dave. I advise you to give up your unrealistic ideas before it's too late, the society we live in is nothing like what's described in the books!"
Hearing the unanimous opposition of his two companions, Dave shook his head helplessly, "It's a pity that Clark isn't here, otherwise, he would have been on my side."
The blonde-haired Quicksilver couldn't help but nod his head at this point, "That guy has been working out and learning oriental martial arts lately, and it does look like he's vying to be a superhero. However, as far as I know, his fitness was already started as soon as he got out of summer vacation, and learning kung fu was also something that happened before the release of 'Fighting Dome'."
The black-haired Quicksilver didn't say anything else, but from his eyes, there was a hint of determination revealed.
...
"Peter!" Meanwhile, within a private house in Queens, Ben Parker opened the door and entered the house while shouting out his cute nephew's name at the top of his voice.
Soon, a teenager who looked to be only seven or eight years old came running out of the room, mouthing, "Uncle Ben, you're back."
"Peter, look what present I brought back for you?" As he spoke, Ben took out a hardcover version of the Doo Wop Dome from his backpack and waved it in front of Peter.
Teenager Peter immediately saw both eyes shining, excitedly jumped high, after receiving the book from Ben's hand, it was hard to hide the excitement and said, "This is simply too cool, Uncle Ben do you know, a few of our classmates who own this book, how godly they are in school!"
"Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river, do not deceive the youth poor!"
"I, Peter Parker, will become a top man like 'Xiao' in the future!"
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On a bench even in a certain unknown town, a middle-aged man wearing a black dress and holding a civilized stick put down the "Fighting Dome" in his hand and muttered, "I didn't expect that human subjective initiative actually holds such a huge potential that it can even change fate against the heavens?"
Shaking his head, it was obvious that he was very unimpressed with the expression "changing fate against the heavens".
However, after taking another look at the "Fighting Dome" that he had already closed, he still shook his head and muttered to himself, "Although I can't change my destiny against the heavens, I can improve my work efficiency. In that case, that teenager called Johnny is not the best choice ..."
As he spoke, the middle-aged man stood up and took a step in the direction of New York City.
The afterglow of the setting sun stretched his shadow long, but if someone looked closely, they would definitely realize that his shadow was not the same as its gentlemanly appearance, looking more like a hunched devil! .........
Situations like Dave and Peter's were happening all over New York City, except that more people were just watching the fun, and very few of them were really motivated to become superheroes just because of a novel.
At the beginning of the third week, the publishing house immediately began to operate, stopping all other work that could be suspended, and tilted all the resources to the printing of "The Dipper". Publishing house boss looked at this week's sales data under the old heart, directly to Cook added a bonus, and let him continue to keep in touch with Li Congxin, if you can "Fighting Broken Vault" of the right to publish a thorough negotiation, directly let him upgrade to become the editor-in-chief! At the same time, the publisher's owner also wasted no time in signing contracts with other publishers, and began to borrow the resources of other publishers to expand the print run.
From early Monday morning, when the second batch of printings of the "Fighting Dome" precisely began to be sold, the major bookstores became overcrowded.
And when the third week's sales statistics came out, its results were even more shocking to everyone's eyeballs, "Doo Breaking Cang Dome" with a sales volume of more than 3.4 million copies of the results of the same period in New York City book sales runner-up, its sales in the "Playboy" impurities below.
And the Doo Wop craze is only just beginning! With the hot sales of his new book, Li Congxin also harvested a huge amount of impression value, and after adding it on top of a few BGMs, his system attributes became ...
BGM has been turned on:
The Calorie
Level: 6 (0/1,000,000)
Effect: It can enhance the effect of workout by 60% and reduce the consumption and damage caused by workout by 60%.
A Man's Man
Rank: 4 (0/1000000)
Effect: Can maintain composure and calmness in battle, while combat awareness is increased by 80%!
Chinese Kung Fu
Rank: 4 (0/1000000)
Effect: Increases the speed of practicing combat skills by 80%!