The next day, the young man left the house with red eyes. He hadn't slept the entire night. After reading "The Sword and Saber Divine Realm" again, he couldn't take it anymore. He planned to go to the bookstore to see if there was a second volume for sale.
However, what made the young man despair was that not only was there no second volume, the first volume had already been sold out.
"Why don't you take a look at the other books?" The shop owner shrugged helplessly. "'The Sword and Saber Divine Realm' is selling too well. It was already sold out when we closed the shop last night. There are five other books that are selling well as well. Now, there are less than ten books left. Do you want to buy them? If you don't, there won't be any left later! "
"There's no second volume?" the young man asked unwillingly.
"You're the sixth person to ask this question. I've already called that Dengeki Bunko a few times. They said that the second volume might not be released until three months later. After all, the authors still need time to write and print. Just wait for three months and you'll have everything!" the shop owner said with a smile.
"Three months …" the young man felt his balls ache and gloomy. The young man was also a game lover. Normally, a game would only be released after a year or so. However, the young man didn't think that it would take too long.
Even if he had to wait two or three years for the sequel, the young man didn't mind.
Games didn't have any continuity, and the story wouldn't attract his soul.
However, novels were different. The young man was already at the exciting part. How could he bear to wait three months for the second volume? However, he couldn't bear it and had no other choice. That person called Xibei Yapeng didn't want to write, and there was nothing he could do.
Helplessly, the young man's gaze fell on the other five novels. Then, the young man exclaimed in surprise.
"Other than 'The Love Metronome,' the authors of all these books are actually Xibei Yapeng!" the young man exclaimed.
The shop owner also realized that those who bought the game cartridges were more interested in light novels. On the other hand, the adults who bought the traditional books weren't that interested in light novels.
As a result, the shop owner decided to move all the light novels to the other side of the game, making them the only light novels that could occupy a place in the game.
This change was very obvious. Players who weren't interested in reading the light novels before couldn't help but feel curious when they saw the light novels in the gaming section.
Catalogue of Forbidden Magic Books
《Realm of Emptiness》
The Work of the Dragon King
《Passerby Female Lead Training Plan》
…
The youth carefully flipped through the novels one by one, looking at the introduction of different novels, pondering which one was the most suitable for him.
However, the young man soon fell into despair because he realized that every book seemed to be suitable for him.
"Manager, I want all five of these books!" At this moment, a voice rang out beside the young man's ear. Then, the young man saw a little black man buying all five novels in a grand manner.
"That's right. Why should I choose? I can buy them all! " The young man's eyes lit up. If he bought all five books, he would probably only be able to eat instant noodles for the rest of the month. However, this didn't affect anything. Compared to the emptiness of his spiritual life, eating a little less was nothing.
Therefore, with the shop owner's face full of smiles, he sold 10 light novels in less than two minutes and made a net profit of 2,000 yen.
"This won't do. I have to make a call and ask the people from Dengeki Bunko to send more over. Otherwise, they will be sold out soon!" The shop owner looked at the remaining 20 novels and immediately exclaimed. Then, he picked up the phone and made a call.
As a result, he found that the other party's phone was in a busy state. It took a long time for him to get through. In the end, he found out that the entire Tokyo area was out of stock. It would take at least three days for them to arrive.
"F * ck, these idiots. Why didn't they print more!" Hearing this, the shop owner couldn't help but curse.
— — —
"President, I'm sorry. The printing factory I bought is too small. It can't meet the needs of the whole country!" In the office building of Dengeki Bunko, which was actually the office on the first floor of the Daqian Group, Xia Qiu Shiyu said to Boss Jia in shame.
During the preparation period of Dengeki Bunko, Boss Jia gave Xia Qiu Shiyu 1 billion yen of start-up funds. A part of it was used to buy the printing factory.
As a large library, it was impossible to not have its own printing factory.
Boss Jia originally planned to let Xia Qiu Shiyu spend about 500 million yen to buy a medium-sized printing factory.
However, Xia Qiu Shiyu felt that such a large-scale printing factory was not necessary in the early stages, so he took the initiative and bought a small printing factory. As a result, the novels were now out of stock in the whole country.
There had been thousands of bookstore owners calling to urge the books. However, the printing capacity was only about 50,000 books a day. After dividing it among each book, it was only about 10,000 yen. How could it meet the demand of the whole country?
"Then go buy a brand new printing machine! In addition, give a part of the order to other printing factories. If we can't do it ourselves, let others print for us! "
"Yes!" Xia Qiu Shiyu nodded obediently. Although it was easy to give the printing task to other printing factories, it meant that the printing cost would increase. The original printing cost was about 200 yen.
Taking into account the other costs, Dengeki Bunko would only earn about 50 yen for every book sold.
If they were to give it to others to print, the printing cost would increase to about 250 yen. Then, Dengeki Bunko would really not have much profit. They were basically making a loss.
"Alright, let's talk about happy things. How are our sales?" Boss Jia asked with a smile.
"Basically, all of them were sold. Otherwise, there wouldn't be a nationwide rush for goods!" At this point, Xia Qiu Shiyu started to get excited. "We sold a total of 500,000 books nationwide. Among them, 150,000 copies of 'Sword and Saber Divine Realm', 100,000 copies of 'Forbidden Magic Book Catalogue', 80,000 copies of 'The Dragon King's Work', 70,000 copies of 'The Realm of Emptiness', 50,000 copies of 'The Passerby Female Protagonist's Training Plan', and 50,000 copies of 'Love Metronome'!"
"Basically, we don't want to sell much now. Especially the book 'Sword and Saber Divine Realm', it was sold out before the sky turned dark yesterday. Therefore, I suggest that we focus on 'Sword and Saber Divine Realm' for printing this time."
"We can print one million copies of 'Sword and Saber Divine Realm' in one go. I think we can sell them all within two months!" Xia Qiu Shiyu said excitedly.
"I didn't expect that the sales in this era this afternoon would be higher than in the future!" Boss Jia muttered as he touched his nose.
150,000 copies were sold out in one day. Of course, Boss Jia's marketing policy played a part in this, but the purchasing power of the Fusangpeople themselves seemed to be much higher than in the future!
This was actually a very normal thing. After all, there were too few entertainment activities in this era. Moreover, there were no electronic reading devices and no pirated books on the Internet to take away the sales of light novels. Therefore, the physical sales of light novels in this era were naturally higher than in the future.
"By the way, how is your 'Love Metronome' selling?" Boss Jia Yapeng suddenly asked with a grin.
"This …" Xia Qiu Shiyu's expression suddenly stiffened. According to the information she received, out of the six new novels that were released this time, five of them were constantly being rushed by the store managers.
Only her 'Love Metronome' was not being rushed at all. Didn't this mean that her novel was actually …
"Senior Shiyu!" Boss Jia said lecherously as he pulled Xia Qiu Shiyu into his arms.
Xia Qiu Shiyu herself did not know why Boss Jia liked to add the words "senior sister" to her address. She was obviously younger than Boss Jia, and they had never studied together. How did she become his senior sister?
Well, that wasn't important, because in the next second, Little Boss Jia's finger pressed on a small flower on her lower body. He then said with a smile, "Senior, you disobeyed my orders and caused our sales to be unable to increase. You wrote another novel that didn't sell that well. I think that you should offer this little flower to me as compensation. "
What followed next was moaning.
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