Chapter 177 Jubilee 3rd Person
Chapter 177 The Third Person of the Millennium
It was a nice day on Saturday.
The Xinhua Bookstore on Xiaoxin Street in Sha District is the largest Xinhua Bookstore in the Fog City and has leased the first to fifth floors of Hengxin Building.
1F: Classic best-selling books and novels
2F: Study, teaching materials, professional books
3F: Children's Books
4F: Literary works from various countries
There is a small library and stationery and peripherals for sale on the fifth floor. Anyway, you can buy Monopoly and "The Little Prince" book covers on the fifth floor.
The fifth floor was a little unusual at this moment. When I stepped out of the escalator, I saw a promotional sign that read [Book Signing Event for The Little Prince].
The small library also put up banners -
[“The stars shine so that everyone can find their own star one day.” The best-selling fairy tale of 2012
Gu Lu's on-site book signing event
Organizer: Sha District Publicity Department
Organizer: Shah District Cultural Committee, Shah District Library, Huaxia Children's Culture Publishing House Bookstore, Xinhua Bookstore
Co-organizers: Shah District Education Committee, Yangjiaping Business District Management Committee]
Don’t worry about the various units mentioned above, and don’t take them too seriously. It just means that this event has been officially approved. If the effect is good, the official will give it a little publicity.
Directly in front of the banner are three narrow tables connected along the short sides, and the tabletops are covered with a red woolen blanket, creating a signature table.
Many staff members were walking around, making final preparations.
"Teacher Gu, my name is Zhang Xian, and I'm the editor of our publishing house. I'm in charge of this book signing event."
Marketing editor Zhang Xian is a man in his 35s. His skin is very bad, dark and acne-prone, probably because he often stays up late. But from his appearance, he is quite capable. The bookstore has central air conditioning, and he sweated from running around, so he simply took off his coat and wore a thin T-shirt.
"If you have any questions during the book signing event, feel free to tell me." Zhang Xian was not at all negligent because of the writer's young age. Instead, he was more positive.
"The process is very good, but..." Gu Lu just walked around, and readers could just buy "The Little Prince" on the third floor and bring it up for autograph, and then pass by the stationery area to buy peripherals (book covers), all in one go.
"I've seen two or three hundred copies of The Little Prince on the third floor." Gu Lu was worried that there were too many preparations and too few people coming.
The book signing event was held just one and a half months after it was released. This was rare not only in the Bronze Age of physical books, but even in the Golden Age of the 1980s and 1990s.
Zhang Xiancheng successfully misunderstood. He responded, "There should be 200 books on display. Don't worry, Teacher Gu. They are displayed here for easy access. There should be 300 more in the warehouse."
"A total of 500 books have been transferred here, plus the ones the bookstore already has, it must be enough." Zhang Xian signaled Gu Lu not to worry.
Gu Lu also knew that there would be about 300 to 400 people at the book signing event, plus a small number of readers would bring their own copies of The Little Prince. You can't just turn them away because they didn't buy the new book. But worried about the lack of people, Gu Lu didn't say anything and got up to go to the bathroom.
While squatting in the toilet cubicle, Gu Lu looked at the message sent by President Jian.
"The Little Prince" has been distributed nationwide for about a month, and on the 45th day, the sales volume exceeded .
[Congratulations, you have become the third Chinese fairy tale writer to have a single book sell over 3 copies since the millennium.]
Oh? Gu Lu was about to get up, but after hearing this, he stayed there for a while.
"Who are the other two?" Gu Lu asked.
[President Jian: Shen Shixi and Zheng Yuanjie, the former's "Red Jackal" and "Black Swan Amethyst", the latter's "Golden Thumb", "Wisdom Tooth" and "Pippi Lu and the Magic Cube Building" all sold over 500,000 copies. However, Zheng Yuanjie's "Wisdom Tooth" and "Golden Thumb" are not very fairy tale novels, and "Pippi Lu and the Magic Cube Building" has the popularity of the cartoon. But from the perspective of the best-selling books themselves, only Shen Shixi can do it.
Gu Lu: "Pippi Lu and the Rubik's Cube Building" is because of the animation, and "The Little Prince" is also largely because of the illustrations. Teacher Shen Shixi is still the best. ]
When teaching children around the world, people like to anthropomorphize animals and use them to tell stories about human values. In China, Shen Shixi is the absolute king in this field. Gu Lu believes that no one on earth can surpass Shen Shixi. If the parallel universe does not blow Shen Shixi away, then no one will surpass him.
President Jian was very pleased. He was very optimistic about Gu Lu and he thought that Gu Lu had indeed achieved good results. He was worried that Gu Lu would become arrogant.
Seeing Gu Lu's reply, President Jian smiled with satisfaction. It was worth it for him to be a shield. He had also received a call from Mo Guanghai, the boss of Chuangxin Stationery, and he cooperated very well and refused the call.
[President Jian: Then work hard like Teacher Shen Shixi. If I remember correctly, Teacher Shen Shixi published 08 books during the 28 Olympics, with sales exceeding million copies and million yuan.]
Gu Lu has been dealing with President Jian for almost a year, and he is very familiar with his way of speaking. President Jian likes to hide his words of advice in compliments.
In the past, when I reminded him that staying up late was not good, I didn’t say it directly. Instead, I praised him for writing very quickly. Now, the praise is mainly to tell him not to be complacent.
"You're overthinking this." Gu Lu said to himself. He was a plagiarist with a triggered golden finger. His works were all from others. How could he be proud of plagiarizing others' works? It was quite good to enjoy the money and social status brought by his works.
Gu Lu replied with a "Keep working hard". You wouldn't know until you heard it, Shen Shixi is really exaggerating. The foreign code refers to the price of the book, but because of discounts and promotions, it is different from the actual sales code. But in 2008, there were 400 million foreign codes, which is also a great god.
"I'm still far from it. I'm still far from it. Don't waste time. Just grow slowly." After chatting, Gu Lu stood up - oops, his feet were numb.
Perhaps many people don’t know that many restrooms in large shopping malls in the Fog City are squat toilets.
It was 9:30 in the morning, half an hour before the book signing session started.
But many students and parents have come to the bookstore because President Jian advertises in magazines published by many publishing houses, such as "Youth Literature", "Little Friends", "Cartoon Pioneer", and "Composition World".
The advertisements in each magazine are different, which shows that the publishing house has really invested a lot of resources.
Take "Composition World" for example. The second cover advertisement reads: "Winner of both the Bing Xin Cup and Ye Shengtao Cup first prizes. He has written wonderful articles such as the Fog City Wine Culture Essay Competition and the National Propaganda Poetry and Culture Essay Competition. Want to know why the sixteen-year-old Gu Lu is so good at writing? On December 12 (Saturday), the book signing event on the fifth floor of Xin Building, Xiaoxin Street, Sha District, will tell you the answer."
Think about it, why do parents subscribe to "Composition World" for their children? They definitely hope that their children's writing skills will improve. Look at this, don't you think it's attractive?
The effect was excellent, even better than President Jian, Zhang Xian and others had imagined, and even...
(End of this chapter)