"Young man, do you want to try a novel?" Every time someone came to buy something, the boss would habitually recommend a novel.
Although most people wouldn't be tempted to buy it, there would always be a small group of people who couldn't help but buy the book after seeing the cover.
This proportion wasn't much. Even if it was only 10%, it was still a huge number for a bookstore with hundreds of customers every day. If every bookstore could sell at least a few dozen light novels every day, it would be a terrifying number for all the bookstores in Fusang.
So the question was, why was the boss so diligent and diligent in recommending such a novel? There were so many books in his bookstore, so why was the boss recommending these light novels?
Could it be that after reading these light novels, the boss felt that they were very interesting and couldn't help but sell them to people?
Of course not. The shop owner didn't even read a single word from beginning to end. He didn't have much interest in light novels, either. The only reason he took the trouble to recommend these light novels to everyone was obviously for the benefit of his backer.
According to convention, if a normal book was sold in a bookstore, the buyer would receive a fixed 20% profit, which meant that a book priced at 1000 yen would cost around 800 yen.
The same was true for the purchase price of light novels. The cost of purchasing a light novel was 400 yen. If the sales were purely based on profit, the boss naturally wouldn't work so hard to promote light novels.
But what if these light novels didn't cost money to purchase?
What if he could get a subsidy of 99 yen for every light novel he sold?
Remember the simple trick Boss Jia used to promote his Little Fairy Crispy Noodle Snacks in Hua Xia?
At this time, the simple and honest Fusangpeople still insisted on using money to purchase light novels and rely on selling them to make a profit. Once a book was placed in a bookstore and they couldn't sell it, then the bookstore would be doomed.
Therefore, bookstores generally didn't dare to place too many light novels in order to avoid huge losses. No matter how popular a light novel was, it would at most be able to place a few dozen copies in.
However, the front-line salesman sent by Dengeki Bunko said that they could sell the light novels in the bookstore for free. The bookstore owner did not have to pay a single cent for the purchase price. They would come back to collect these light novels after a period of time. When the time came, they only had to count how many light novels were sold in the bookstore and pay the bookstore owner directly.
Of course, if the shop owner sold all of them, he only needed to make a phone call, and the front-line salespeople would immediately replenish the stock and pay the money.
In any case, the shop owner wouldn't make any losses by selling these light novels, so of course the shop owner was willing to put these light novels in the most conspicuous place.
However, this wasn't enough for Boss Jia to turn himself into a salesman to promote the book. In addition to the traditional profit, Boss Jia also offered a 99 yen subsidy for every book sold.
What do you think? Doesn't this look very familiar?
Back in the day, Didi and Kuaidi were used in the same way. However, Boss Jia was now focusing on the sales of light novels.
Therefore, if the shop owner sold a 499 yen light novel, he would be able to earn 199 yen. The profit was much higher than other light novels. Of course, the shop owner was willing to help promote these light novels.
Moreover, Dengeki Bunko's salesman didn't ask the shop owner to promote the light novel. He only asked the shop owner to promote the light novel when someone paid the bill. He didn't even need to praise the novel. He only needed to introduce the novel's content and show the cover of the novel to the young readers.
There wasn't even any element of misleading, and it wouldn't hurt the reputation of the bookstore at all. Naturally, the shop owner wouldn't refuse.
This method seemed simple, but the effect was quite obvious. It was difficult for young people not to be tempted by novel things. In addition to the shop owner's hard promotion, the shop owner had sold about 50 of the 200 light novels that were brought in by the time the shop closed on the first day.
"50 books, that's 10,000 yen!" The bookstore owner's eyes were smiling like crescent moons. For a small bookstore like his to have a profit of 10,000 yen in a day was already very impressive.
After selling Nintendo's new game for the whole day, he only had a profit of 20,000 yen.
Nintendo was definitely one of the stingiest game companies. With a price of 4,999 yen, they only gave the shop owner 100 yen in profit. It wasn't even as much as a 499 yen light novel.
If it wasn't for the large number of players in the world and the large number of game cartridges sold, the shop owner would have thrown these damn game cartridges out.
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"I'll play the game first!" The first thing the young man did when he returned home was to play Final Fantasy 5 on GB.
However, after playing for half an hour, the young man's expression became a little unhappy. He felt that the ending of Final Fantasy 5 wasn't enough. Later, he saw in a magazine that the GB version of Final Fantasy 5 might have more content for the ending.
This was the motivation for him to spend 4,999 yuan on a BG version of Final Fantasy 5.
It turned out that he was too naive. The entire game was exactly the same as the F version, without any changes.
What's worse is that the operation settings were still the same as the F version, which made the operation of the handheld very complicated. The young man was confused, and his interest in the game was almost exhausted.
"Let's find something else to do!" The young man sighed. He wasn't interested in playing games for the time being. Anyway, he knew the entire story of the game, and he played the process several times. He really didn't have any motivation to play.
Therefore, the young man's gaze fell on the novel he had just bought, which was called "The Sword and Saber Divine Realm".
The young man opened the first page of the first volume of the novel.
"Although this is a game,
It's not a joke. " "
— — "SAO Sword and Saber Divine Realm" Designer, Kayaba Akihiko
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Ten hours later.
The young man seemed to be unable to perceive the changes in time and space, and he couldn't even feel hunger. He eagerly read the novel called "Sword and Saber Divine Realm" until the sky was completely dark, and he couldn't see the words on the page.
The young man realized that it was already 7 o 'clock in the evening, and he didn't eat lunch or dinner.
But it didn't matter. The young man's first reaction was to immediately turn on the light, then he immersed himself in the world of the novel until he finished reading the last page.
"What! It's gone!! " Seeing that the protagonist Kirito successfully defeated the final boss, the young man was eager to read the rest of the story. He wanted to see the scene of Kirito and Asuna reuniting in reality, but he found that it was gone.
"Fuck! Chapter Breaking Wood JJ! "The young man wailed as he looked at the 《Sword and Saber Divine Domain》 in his hand. His whole body trembled with excitement.
The young man thought that his imagination was strong enough, but when he saw the game described in the Sword and Saber Divine Realm, especially the game described in the Sword and Saber Divine Realm, he found that his imagination was still too weak.
Humans could actually enter a consciousness world that was completely made up of dreams through a helmet through brainwaves, and this consciousness world was even made into a f * cking game. When the young man saw that humans could carry out the most realistic exploration of a different world in their dreams, he was completely convinced.
He finished reading the novel while kneeling on the ground.
"The author of this novel must be a god, his imagination is so great!!" The young man praised sincerely, then suddenly thought of something. He couldn't wait to open the title page of the novel, wanting to see who the author of this novel is.
Author: Sibei Yapeng
Collaboration: Yamakawa Kazu
Illustration: Sibei Yapeng
Character Profile: Sibei Yapeng
"Sibei Yapeng! What a strange surname, does Fusang have this surname? " Seeing this name, the young man froze for a moment, but he quickly realized that this should be the author's pen name.
What made the young man even more shocked is that the author, illustration, and character profiles of the novel were all done by one person.
This means that this Sibei Yapeng is not only responsible for the content of the novel, but also the illustration and character profiles. How great of a god is this!
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