Chapter 226 The Great Rival
Perhaps some people have begun to question the efficiency of The Guardian, and they have just started selling English versions today, but they have actually written the book review.
This is the ability of a large company. Before the work is released, you hand over the books to influential media and book reviewers, allowing them to read and evaluate them, thereby increasing the influence of the work!
It is undeniable that the recommendations of the list and the recommendations of book reviewers are the only magic weapon to increase the reputation of the works.
Just like when you invite film reviewers and professional newspapers to preview the movie before it is released, you are eager to get recommendations from film reviewers, and a good reputation is more conducive to subsequent operations.
Now the first day's 70,000 copies is the best performance in the new book sale yesterday. With the operation of Random Bookstore, almost all chain bookstores have placed "Detective Sherlock" in the most conspicuous position, and Amazon has also given some recommendations.
The UK Amazon New Book List is third, the US Amazon New Book List is seventh, Australia ranks fourth, Canada ranks tenth, and all four major English-speaking countries are in the top ten!
It's just Wednesday, and it took only one day to catch up with the sales of the other works for three days, and is expected to rush up on the new book list and reach the top!
Almost no book in the UK's new book series will be the opponent of "Detective Sherlock". On the list of book types, it has actually reached the top three in the subcategory of mystery detective novels.
Looking around, it seems that almost all the lists that can be listed have already been on the list. Now netizens’ expectations for it are obviously going up to a higher level. They have set their targets on the book sales list of Britain and the United States.
It is an unprecedented move to be a prestigious move for the annual general list, but only to leave footprints on the weekly list!
But it seems quite difficult to achieve this goal at the moment.
The tastes of readers from Britain and the United States are actually not very consistent. For example, the work "Grey", which ranks first in the UK, has won four consecutive weeks. It sold 640,000 copies in three days, and now more than 200,000 copies are still recorded every week.
Although it won the UK, it has only been in the top ten weekly list once on the New York Times bestseller rankings, and it is only ranked 23rd on the 2018 instant sales annual rankings!
After all, although the British like to read books, their sales volume is still not as good as that of China and the United States because of their small population.
The second place in the UK is the children's work "Grandpa's Escape" written by the famous comedy star David Williams. The well-known British celebrity plus the setting of children's books is just around the corner, and it is expected to rise a lot under the influence of the festive effect.
In addition, there are novels such as "The Girl on the Train", "The Little Brat Diary: The Old School", and the coloring book "Milly Marotta's Animal Kingdom", etc.
None of them can be easily pulled down. Most of them are works that have been tested by the market and readers' reputation. It is quite difficult for Zhang Chu to rush forward with a new book like this!
Currently, the price of "Detective Sherlock" in the UK is £12.99, which is quite expensive. Many works are 7.99 or 9.99.
Fame is not advantageous and price is at a disadvantage. The road to "Detective Sherlock" does not seem optimistic.
If the most promising UK is like this, the competition in the American book market will be even greater!
Richard's work "Night School", which released a new book at the same time as Zhang Chu, directly topped the new book sales list. Although he only sold 48,000 copies worldwide, all of them were concentrated in the United States.
Unlike "Detective Sherlock", which sells 71,000 copies worldwide, only a part is in the US market. After all, there is no such statement as a global book sales list. Everyone is just counting works in their respective countries.
Richard is one of the most famous mystery writers in the UK. After he had no writing experience, he picked up a pen to write the first part of the "Prodigal Detective" Jack Liqi series. As soon as it was published, it was listed on the British Times and the Guardian's best-selling rankings, and won the Anthony Award, one of the highest awards in mystery novels in the United States!
Richard, who bought paper and pen for six dollars, slowly withdrew from the sequel every year. Every time he published it, he would definitely conquer the major best-selling rankings on both sides of the Atlantic. At present, the cumulative global sales have exceeded 37 million copies.
This "Night School" tells the story of Jack Liqi when he was young. Liqi was still the military police in the US military at that time, and the night school was the code name for the cross-agency operation team.
Perhaps because I wanted to release a new book before the Anthony Awards had completely disappeared, "Night School" was released in the United States two weeks in advance, and the author Richard's hometown in the United Kingdom has not yet been launched!
This is a slight opportunity for "Detective Sherlock" to gain a foothold in the British book market.
At the same time, there is also a little fun in the American book market. There has been no scene of two mystery works competing with each other for many years.
Now "Night School" faces "Detective Sherlock", one is the prodigal detective Jack Liqi, and the other is the legendary Sherlock Sherlock Sherlock Sherlock Sherlock is arranged in a modern background. This is a prosperous era for fans of mystery novels and detective novels!
One is the king of the thriller mystery novels, and the other is the unknown Chinese youth. Many netizens have already made choices in their hearts.
Of course, Jack Liqi's adventure story is about to win. The perfect combination of cold hard-core detectives and classical secret room reasoning is not comparable to that unknown person!
Of course, for "Detective Sherlock", it is a huge honor and an excellent opportunity to be compared by the media and netizens to the top kings.
The staff of Random House did not expect the media to give such an assist. Someone proposed to tie up the publicity and was denied, but in the end he finally came to this path!
This is not only a good thing for "Detective Sherlock", but also an opportunity for "Night School".
Great works require great opponents, and the best opponents can achieve each other.
If it only sells excellently, the news of "Night School" will be very boring, but now it has an opponent that is constantly catching up with behind it, and the attention it will receive will increase!
After all, there are waves and highlights, which are better than a stagnant pool of water.
The question now is whether "Detective Sherlock" can reach the dominant position of "Night School" in the US market!
If we can continue to fight, those two books will probably benefit a lot from it and achieve a win-win situation.
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I’ve been making a fool, the monthly tickets for our book seem to have been cleared?
Chapter completed!