In the opening publishing company, Lai Feiyu was sweating profusely in a hurry.

"Why don't the boss answer the phone? Is it okay for us to make a decision directly for such a big thing?" He turned his head and looked at Chen Long, the leisurely deputy general manager on the office chair. "The Walker Culture means that we can hurry up and sign the contract, and then cooperate with Dangdang.com to start pre-sales."

Chen Long shook his head and said, "If you mess up the order, can you be responsible?"

Because of the tight time of traveler culture, Chen Xu did not ask for a high price on the opening book, but instead negotiated the terms based on the publishing agreement of "Dragon Clan".

The royalty is still 12%, the number of first prints has been reduced from 800,000 copies to 500,000 copies, and the royalties are required to pay 50% in advance.

If Qin Chuan's new book is in other types, then Chen Long must have agreed without saying a word.

But it was a mystery novel, which made him feel a little reluctant!

Lai Feiyu was speechless. What should he do to be responsible for, as a small employee?

At the critical moment, Lu Manqing, the boss who can keep his attention, can't contact him at all. Just one word from her, the company will definitely run at full speed.

"But this is Qin Chuan. You see that there are so many people discussing online, and there were many fans in the past. Even if you write mystery novels, it would not be bad." Lai Feiyu has become Qin Chuan's number one book fan. If such an opportunity slips away, he will definitely be disappointed.

Chen Long shook his head, "I know he is Qin Chuan, but mystery novels are really a big pit. You won't forget where our open-book publishing company's biggest fall in the 21st century, right? It's this mystery novel! Even if he is the king of heaven, he must not sign such a contract before seeing the specific content!"

Whenever the past is mentioned, the office is silent.

Lai Feiyu is an old employee of the open-book publishing company. He naturally knew that in 2002, he was also an extremely best-selling writer who was ambitious to transform and write suspense mystery novels.

At that time, the book market was extremely large and the writers were popular, so the company offered sky-high prices, hoping to make it the number one person in mystery novels that crossed the river!

The first seal is directly a million, and then nine hundred thousand is placed in the warehouse.

In order to save warehouse storage fees, the 900,000 brand new books had to be sold for scrap.

Each ton of waste paper with pulp can produce 850 kilograms of good quality recycled paper, save 3 cubic meters of wood, save 300 kilograms of chemical raw materials, save 1.2 tons of coal, save 600 degrees of electricity; and reduce a large amount of waste...

This one-sharp semantic semantics of waste paper recycling are clearly stated, but in the tons of waste paper pulp, there are countless "corpses" of books.

In the mountains of inventory of various publishing institutions, many books can only be destroyed because they cannot be sold and turned into pulp.

Nine hundred thousand books turned into worthless pulp, which was a heavy blow to the high-level opening-book publishing company, and then began to go downhill.

Now it is like a cycle of reincarnation!

Chen Long actually encountered a mystery novel again!

Even if Qin Chuan had only 500,000 copies of the first print, the current mystery novel market is far inferior to that of twenty years ago. How dare he take huge risks to sign this contract?

There is only one book title and there is not even an outline of the content. How can I use it for pre-sale?

It's totally a joke!

Lai Feiyu also knew the difficulties, and he murmured to himself: "If you don't sign this contract, Qin Chuan will probably go further and further with us."

Several novels by Qin Chuan are the key to the resurrection of the open-book publishing company.

Now that the vitality has not yet recovered, he is going to part ways with the greatest hero. Lai Feiyu no longer wants to return to his previous state of indestruction.

Chen Long is not a bad person either, he just has different directions of thinking.

This deputy general manager has a tendency to be conservative, and he has to consider everything that has a little risk.

"The reason why the boss didn't answer the phone is sufficient. It just happened to delay the Walker Culture for a day. The mystery novel is really an A Dou who can't be helped in popular novels. I have never seen any publishing company that makes money from this type of books!"

Lai Feiyu suddenly had his eyes shining and said firmly: "We can sign a floating contract with Walker Culture! According to the pre-sale status of "Suspect", the number of first prints is twice or three times the pre-sale. In this way, there should be no loss."

The pre-sale volume represents the market's expectation for this type of novel and Qin Chuan's real appeal.

Weibo comments, no matter how popular Doule is, it is nothing if it is not converted into consumption power!

If you pre-sale 20,000 yuan, you can print 40,000 yuan or 60,000 yuan, and some can be sold in the ordinary market.

If 100,000 is pre-sale, 200,000 or 300,000 copies will be printed.

This will have very little risk!

Chen Long was surprised at Lai Feiyu's whimsical thoughts, "I haven't heard of this type of contract in the book market. Is this reasonable?"

"Why is it unreasonable? Mr. Chen, you must know that Shen Xu and the others definitely don't want to see "Suspect" stock too much and cannot be sold. It is necessary to do hunger marketing appropriately."

Lai Feiyu himself couldn't believe that he could come up with such an excellent solution.

He saw Chen Long's hesitation, so he spoke again: "Mr. Chen, everyone is making changes in the new era, why do we still have to stick to traditions? Why can't we lead the trend of the industry? We have to wait for others to do it before we do it? Anyway, with pre-sales support, no matter how bad we are, we won't lose money!"

"Then I will reply to Shen Xu. You should hurry up and put this in the contract. If Qin Chuan agrees, we will sign the electronic contract immediately, and then find large book websites such as Dangdang.com and Goudong Bookstore for pre-sale. The art team is also ready for all night. Now I just hope that Qin Chuan will give us a few keywords or slogans as soon as possible, otherwise I don't know how to promote it."

After Chen Long agreed, the small boat of Kaijuan Publishing Company began to operate in an orderly manner.

...

When the hustle and bustle of the night return to silence, and when the land of China escapes into darkness, a very small number of people are still staying up late to struggle.

Qin Chuan exited from the brain overclocking state.

I was a little dizzy.

Fortunately, I just wrote 8,000 words, including the total content I wrote during the day was 16,000, which was faster than expected.

At this time, Shen Xu sent the content of the opening contract change through WeChat.

Qin Chuan looked at it carefully and replied with a good word!

The other party just wants to resist risks. After the two-week pre-sale ends, the first print count is directly three times the total pre-sale volume.

Anyway, Qin Chuan finished writing the novel at that time and did not enter the printing stage at all.

Not everyone knows the reading and attraction of "Suspect x", and the pitfall of mystery novels is the common pain of many booksellers in China.

Everyone thought that was a field that no one was involved and wanted to try it out.

What if the market is really opened up, what if it really gains a foothold!

As a result, one publishing company after another is losing money in this regard.

It is too difficult to see excellent mystery novels, so readers can just read short stories to satisfy their cravings.

Press the fingerprint on the screen of the phone with your finger and write the name on it. Qin Chuan's special publishing agreement will be completed.

He is trying to help with the slogan.

How to attract readers' curiosity without revealing the plot?

If such a good opportunity cannot attract readers, then in the end, there is only Zhou's reputation counterattack, and it is also the most difficult path.

If you have other choices, never choose that one!

...

"I obviously want to start health preservation, why are I still staying up late to cultivate immortality?"

"If you are ugly, you go to bed first, it doesn't matter if I'm handsome."

"The night is so beautiful, and it is too dangerous to cultivate immortals. There are always people who practice immortals with dark eyes~~"

Bi Siyuan not only stayed up late, but even sang while reading books.

Living alone is the benefit of this. I am still energetic at around 3 a.m.

Anyway, when you go to the library tomorrow, you can not only read books, but also take a nap while lying down.

Sleeping at work is the most cost-effective thing. It makes money and sleeps as long as it is, provided that it is not discovered by the leader.

Bi Siyuan's family has a mine and doesn't care about the salary being deducted. He just needs a career to block his family's chattering mouth.

He is not an ordinary reader, but the actual operator of the famous Weibo account "Book Waste Alliance". He once recommended Qin Chuan's "Life End of Sorrow and Water to the East" and "Zhu Xian" on Weibo.

Recently, it has been even more fake for public service and private services, allowing the library to purchase "Love Novels", which not only allows one to watch "Dragon Clan" itself, but also benefits the students of Star City University of Science and Technology.

Under Bi Siyuan's management, the library has a very good reputation, and the books, magazines, and periodicals that students want to read can basically be found.

"The Dragon Clan doesn't feel suitable for me as a stinger. I don't know how the reasoning performance of his new book "Suspect x". This teacher is really bold."

He has never exposed his identity and can hear news about Qin Chuan from his colleagues and students from time to time.

For example, the story of "Metamorphosis" and the award ceremony.

Bi Siyuan is a very lazy person, but he can become very diligent in order to read books and even be willing to use his brain.

He read the very few mystery novels in the library, and even some of them were read over and over again, trying to find some details and foreshadowings.

Bi Siyuan is indeed looking forward to Qin Chuan's "The Dedication of Suspect X".

This writer has always been confused. Since he dares to promote his new work with such a big fantasy, it must be extremely exciting.

Bi Siyuan looked at a Weibo post that Qin Chuan had just updated and said to himself: "Oh, it seems that I am not the only one who stayed up late to practice immortality. I got the pre-sale so quickly, so I'll buy one too!"

Following the Weibo link to Dangdang.com, Bi Siyuan looked at the predetermined quantity and thought he was dazzled!

At around three o'clock in the middle of the night, more than 4,000 copies were sold!

"I'm afraid this pre-sale is going to explode!"

Bi Siyuan rubbed his eyes, refreshed the page again, and found that there were hundreds of more copies.

He has been reading books for many years, but he really doesn't think he dares to start pre-sales. Not everyone has the ability to withstand the bleak pre-sale numbers.

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