The long flight journey ended. When Zhou Kang and others set foot on the land of China again, they all lost the idea of ​​talking and just wanted to end this tired day quickly.

After picking up their luggage, they waved goodbye, took the airport bus, took the subway, took the subway, and took the taxi to ask Didi or someone who came to pick them up to leave.

Zhou Kang originally wanted to take a convenient airport bus into the city, because the place where the airport bus departed was not far in front of his house.

But when he passed by CITIC Bookstore, he was attracted by the large poster at the door of the bookstore!

Now Mona Lisa's painting has become the symbol of "The Da Vinci Code", and the paintings and novels have been successfully tied together.

When you see Mona Lisa, you will think of this novel in your mind. This is the role of propaganda brainwashing!

It is almost the best way to promote it to be associated with the world's top famous paintings.

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It's the morning of the 10th. It's time to calculate the time that most bookstores and online bookstores in China have already started selling. Zhou Kang took the opportunity to find out what happened.

The CITIC Bookstore at the airport is decorated very brightly, with many bookshelves placed inside. The most conspicuous position is this week's new book, and many customers are standing in front of this bookshelves.

"There is a bookstore at the airport, so I can't go there again in the future. The "Da Vinci Code" is very popular online. Please buy it and take a look!"

"When I was on the plane, I was wondering if I wanted to buy an electronic version later. Now I should buy physical books, which is only more than twenty yuan anyway."

"Do you see the puzzle online? The clues in the novel written by Zhang Chu are very interesting. You can get the password by changing the alphabetical order of these words. It is said that this is the simplest one."

"When we went to the Louvre to see Mona Lisa's paintings, there were so many people. Everyone was crowded in front of the glass. At that time, I knew that this painting was not that simple!"

"Buy it, let's discuss the plot and other things together then."

"I'm slow to read, don't just spend time spoiling me!"

"Zhang Chu's book is still worth reading. I have never read such a suspense book in the nature of reasoning and suspense before, and I don't know what the content is."

"The shocking secret, the ancient truth, I'm becoming more and more interested!"

Zhou Kang pretended to take the book in his hand, but in fact he was quietly listening to the chats of these readers in his ears.

The novel has just been released, and most readers have not even bought it, so of course the discussion about the content is just speculation out of thin air.

More than ten books on the bookshelf "Da Vinci Code" were quickly emptied, and the staff took a few books from a pile of books with winding spiral shapes next to them, putting them on the bookshelf, making the cover of the novel face outward, which is more direct!

"This guy, I want to ask, how did "Da Vinci Code" sell today?"

The staff who were placing the books looked at Zhou Kang and did not find any trace of the camera before speaking: "It's sold well. From the opening of the door to now, I have sold about fifty books. There are many travelers in the airport who buy books."

"Then how many sources of goods have you prepared?"

"We have prepared 500 books, and we will ask the store manager to transfer the goods in about three days. Zhang Chu's novels have always been sold well. Our store's business is worse than those bookstores in the departure airport. Many people are willing to read books when they are waiting for or taking the plane."

This is true. When you wait for the plane, everyone is a little bored, and after getting off the plane, everyone hurried to their destination.

Bookstores with average customer flow can sell more than fifty books in two hours in the morning. If they are those with large customer flow, the sales will probably be as high as possible!

Zhou Kang originally wanted to ask something more, but the guy pointed to the store manager there and walked away quickly. The staff talked about the fact that the store manager who was petty was fined if he saw it.

"It seems that there is no need to worry about the sales of Zhang Chu's book. It depends on what level it will be in the first week on the first day and the first week."

Suddenly an idea emerged from his head, "Da Vinci Code" would have snatched away the annual sales champion position of "Ghost Blows Out the Light"?

The difference between the two is so big that if you can still turn around, you really have to kneel down!

"It should be impossible. I am leading by more than 7 million copies. How could I sell so many in two or three months?"

After throwing this terrifying idea out of his head, Zhou Kang came to the airport bus waiting for the bus. It seemed that he couldn't rest today and had to go to work!

Since you have already received high wages and high treatment, you must have to bear this little bit of pain.

...

At this time, in the Yan University campus, Zhang Chu carried his backpack to the left and followed An Mi and his group toward the cafeteria.

It’s a seven-day National Day, but I’m so tired when I come back to class. I have to attend six classes this week.

"Who is the prototype of Professor Yang Xuan in your novel? Does our school have this professor?"

"Mid-aged, semiotic cryptologist, elegant male professor, and Professor Yang Xuancong from our department are dozens of years older and his major is not right, otherwise it would be just right."

"By the way, I searched in the Academic Affairs Office. There is really a semiotics elective course. I plan to listen to it."

Zhang Chu said helplessly: "The characters in novels are characters in novels. There is no prototype. The focus is on the story, on the story!"

Yang Ling nodded and said, "I got up early this morning and bought this e-book. I stopped when I saw it. The story is very attractive. Kindle reading is quite convenient, but I always like to use my mobile phone to search for related content in the novel while reading. When will your illustration version be available? I'm just waiting to buy that version."

When it comes to a painting, a building or a map, it is obvious that the text of a novel is somewhat abstract. For example, if some paintings are named, they may not be clear about what they look like, but they can be clearly seen on the book.

"The illustration version has to wait. I found out the pictures and inserted them into the novel during the festival. I guess the book should be quite thick, weighing at least three pounds, which is quite suitable for collection."

An Mi widened her eyes and said in surprise: "Three pounds weigh? Is this book going to block bullets?"

"For the sake of the printing quality of the novel, it would be quite troublesome to print those pictures in color."

All three people in the same dormitory bought "The Da Vinci Code", but none of them came to ask what the shocking secret behind it was.

It is better to read the novel by yourself. If you are spoiled, many wonderful works will feel like you can't read them!

After they arrived at the cafeteria, they each took their own plates to find what they like to eat. The eating habits of southerners and northerners are quite different.

Zhang Chu is going to exercise this afternoon, so he bought Kung Pao Chicken, Braised Beef and a portion of broccoli. It is better to eat less pork when exercising.

The four of them sat down at a table, and Sun Ruiqi asked curiously: "The Internet says that your book "Da Vinci Code" can exceed 2 million copies today, and it sells too well, right?"

"No, I sold so many on the first day. Do you have to go to heaven?" An Mi stopped the spoon in surprise. The 2 million books were not small numbers.

Zhang Chu shook his head and said, "2 million is the number of pre-sales. The physical books and e-books sold today are calculated together, which is actually not much shock. The main reason is that there are more pre-sales."

"Yes, I saw a long queue in the Jingdong campus logistics side today. The next day, I was very comfortable to get there, and I could even pay in the morning and get the goods in the afternoon. Many people in our dormitory bought it together at Jingdong Books, which was cheap and fast."

"Everyone said you broke your own record, and the pre-sale volume is too great!"

"The pre-sale in China is 1.22 million, which is much higher than my previous book "Ghost Blows Out the Light", and it directly changed from 400,000 to more than one million. In fact, this is also a good marketing process. Everyone's expectations for "Da Vinci Code" are very high. "Ghost Blows Out the Light" were not very popular at that time, and I also serialized half of the content online, so the pre-sale was a little worse."

In addition to the 1.22 million pre-sales, as long as you can sell another 780,000 copies today, you can make your first-day score reach 2 million. Not only physical bookstores are making efforts, but online bookstores are also promoting them.

A series of book-selling websites such as JD.com, Dangdang Books, Amazon Books, China Books Network, Xinhua Bookstore official website, etc., have replaced the big banner ads on the homepage with "Da Vinci Password".

They even send recommendation text messages to users’ mobile phones, which makes this promotion coverage wider!

The cost of this type of large online bookstore from publishing houses is very low, so they can unscrupulously give 10% off or 20% off the books and then do crazy activities such as 100 off or 20% off.

The sales of physical books in these places are very high, and the download volume of e-books is also not low, so it is indeed very likely that 780,000 copies will be used.

Physical bookstores may close at 9 pm, but online bookstores do not close 24 hours a day, which provides a longer time for sales growth!

"The Da Vinci Code" not only exploded in sales in China, but also set a record for overseas sales of Chinese books in the United Kingdom, France, the United States and Australia, which increased by more than ten times compared to the Nobel Prize winner's book works.

This is a big explosion that belongs to the world, and this is a good achievement that surprised countless people. Random House once again proved its vision. The 12 million pound prepaid manuscript fee is worth it!

Few Chinese writers can publish books globally, and most of them just use names as gimmicks.
Chapter completed!