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May 28th, 2016. According to the time of this world, today was Saturday. According to the curriculum of the first year of Sotake High School, today was considered a half-weekend. After the morning class, Kato Kun hurriedly bid farewell to Yukino and Danyuko in the activity room of the service department.
According to Fantastic Literature's schedule, he had to go to Tokyo today to deal with the publication of his novel. Almost at the same time as Kato left school, Machida Yuanzi, the chief editor of Fantastic Literature, was looking at the data in her hands with a serious face.
As the main novel of Fantastic Literature this summer, the Forbidden Magic Books Catalog had been the biggest promotional resource of Fantastic Literature in just one week. Both Machida Yuanzi and the other editors of Fantastic Literature were very optimistic about this novel. The first edition had printed 200,000 copies, which was completely unbelievable for a newcomer's novel.
However, there was one thing that he had to worry about. Although Kato Hiko's novel was outstanding, he was still a newcomer.
To a certain extent, the living environment of light novels in Japan was similar to the online novel world in Kato's previous life. It was not that there were no newcomers who became gods with a single book, but there were definitely not many.
What was even crueler was that in his previous life, the Chinese online literature world was dominated by one company. Therefore, if a website wanted to promote a newcomer, it could still do so. However, in the Japanese light novel library, there were only three bookshelves of the same level. As for the bookshelves that were slightly smaller than the three largest bookshelves, there were even more.
Don't think that just because the three major light novel libraries were controlled by the same company, they would be very friendly. In fact, the Undying River Bookstore occupied 80% of the Japanese light novel library's shares.
In the light novel industry, it was basically a monopoly. Anyway, no matter how big or small it was, it was controlled by the Immortal River. This meant that no matter how fierce the competition between the literature books was, the Immortal River would be the biggest beneficiary.
On the contrary, if the books under his management lacked competition and the entire light novel world became a pool of stagnant water, then the one who suffered the greatest loss would also be the Immortal River Bookstore.
Therefore, the upper management of the Undying River Bookstore didn't object to the competition between the bookshelves. In fact, in order to ensure that the competition was fierce, the Undying River Bookstore even supported the weaker bookshelves. As a result, other than the direct descendant of the Undying River Sneaker, Thunderstrike and Fantastic Books were considered very miserable. Not only did they have a lot of competitors, but those big and small competitors also had the support of the company's headquarters.
Under such circumstances, apart from Thunderbolt Literature, which had jumped out of the fierce competition of traditional light novels with mobile novels, Fantastic Literature could be said to be getting more and more miserable in such a competitive environment. It could even become the first existence to fall from the altar of the three major book depots.
Under such pressure, even though they were very confident in Kato Hiko's novel, as the release date of the novel approached, everyone in the library was very nervous.
If Fantastic was in its heyday, the editors wouldn't be so anxious about the sales of a light novel. However, this wasn't the heyday of the library. It could be said that more than half of the library's power was poured into the Forbidden Magic Books Catalog. If this novel failed in the end, it would mean that Fantastic had completely failed this summer.
From the looks of it, the situation with the Forbidden Magic Books Index was still not very clear. After all, Kato was a new author, which was a natural disadvantage. They needed to work harder.
"How's the popularity of the novel now?”
After looking at the data in her hands, Machida Yuanzi also asked the staff who had just entered the office of the chief editor of the literature. Now, it was not only the shortcomings of the newcomer Kato Hiko that hindered the promotion of the novel. Similarly, during this period of time, all the major literature in the light novel world would focus on the works of the great gods of their own literature.
According to the online literature world, Kato was a newcomer to online literature and was competing with many other great gods who published their books at the same time. Even if Kato's novel was really good, the possibility of him breaking out of the crowd would be infinitely reduced.
Who asked June to be the peak season for the light novel world? Since they chose this time to be listed, they had to accept this kind of competition.
In fact, before this, other editors in the library had also suggested releasing Kato Hiko's novel after the off-season. However, even if Kato Hiko's magic forbidden book catalog was successful in the off-season, the value of the novel would be greatly reduced. In order not to waste the commercial value of this excellent light novel, Machida Yuanzi rejected this path chosen by many new authors. Instead, she directly let Kato Hiko's novel compete with the many light novel gods for market share.
It had to be said that Machida Yuanzi was indeed very optimistic about Kato.
" Currently, the novel has maintained its recent popularity. On our official website, the Index of Forbidden Magic Books is very popular and highly rated. According to past experience, it should have a good sales volume."
Although Kato Hiko's novels were currently in a very dangerous competitive environment, Fantastic Literature was one of the three major light novel libraries after all. There were still many people who paid attention to the main works of the library. Under such circumstances, as long as the quality of the Forbidden Magic Books was good, there would still be a good sales volume. Of course, there was no problem with the quality of the Forbidden Magic Books.
The key was whether the Forbidden Magic Book List met the market requirements. Whether it was the sales of light novels or many other ACG products, as long as it involved sales, it was a rather metaphysical thing.
For example, in Kato Kun's previous life, there was a very popular mocking term," Bilibili hegemony " or " Nilibili hegemony ".
The so-called hegemony of Xilibili referred to those anime works that were quite popular on the bullet comments or video websites. These anime works were very popular on the video websites or bullet comments websites. They easily had more than a million views and were praised and loved by many people.
According to the general market rules, such animation works should be very good in terms of sales volume, which was the most important indicator to measure their commercial value. However, what surprised people was that most of the sales of these hegemonic works were very unqualified.
For example, before Kato Kun transmigrated, he created an anime of the SOX cult.
This anime was truly a hegemonic work. In terms of popularity, it was definitely the number one in the same period. It firmly suppressed a certain Chun Yao Fan, a certain Yue Chef Fan, and a certain hamster Buried Fan.
However, in terms of the animation's sales, this was the worst. In professional terms, it was a big hit. This movie had millions of views per episode, but the final animation's sales were less than 3,000. According to the general business indicators, could you imagine it?
Of course, the huge difference between the number of clicks and sales of the animation was also largely related to the price of the animation's HD.
According to the general animation works, there were 12 episodes per season, and every three episodes would form a volume of CD. The selling price of each CD volume was between 6,000 to 10,000 yen. If one wanted to buy all the CD of a 12-episode animation, it would cost between 24,000 to 40,000 yen, and it would cost between 1600 to 3000 yuan.
If they had to spend so much money to support one animation, many otakus would definitely have more than one favorite animation every season. Under such circumstances, they would have to make a choice, and that would be the problem.
Are you willing to spend so much money for the SOX cult, for Xiao Burial, or for the drug? This wasn't just a few pieces or tens of pieces, but tens of thousands!
This was no longer a business problem. For many rich people, this was not a problem. However, for most ordinary people, this was a matter of human nature and metaphysics.
To put it simply, it was how much you were willing to pay for something you liked.
If there was no price to pay, anyone could say that they liked it with just a click of the mouse. However, when it came to money or other costs, how many people were left out of these millions of people?
Not to mention animations that were relatively expensive, even Chinese online novels were considered very low in terms of the value of their downloads. However, how many downloads would there be for works that had tens of millions of views and hundreds of millions of favorites?
It could be said that no one could guarantee the sales volume. The more expensive something was, the more mysterious it would be. Although light novels did not easily reach tens of thousands, they were definitely more expensive than online novels. The light novel world, which was very similar to the online novel world, could be imagined.
Therefore, Machida Yuanzi, an experienced editor, knew that the only thing she could do now was to be herself. As for the rest, it was completely out of her control.
However, what made Machida Yuanzi very angry was that Kato Hiko was too infuriating. In other words, whether it was Kato Hiko or Kasumigaoka Shika, these two guys that she had high hopes for had disappointed her.
The first was Shika Kasumigaoka. This lady's enthusiasm for writing was simply outrageous. She had worked hard to revise her work and strive to publish her novel as soon as possible. This lady had indeed revised it, and for some reason, her love novel had become better and better. However, the speed at which she revised it was simply speechless.
The second was Kato. Although he was indeed impeccable in terms of writing speed and quality, what happened to helping with publicity?
The day before yesterday, this guy seemed to have just remembered to register on Twitter or Facebook. Just thinking about the number of followers and fans on this guy's Weibo and Facebook, Machida Yuanzi felt her teeth ache. This guy was completely heartless. Although in terms of profit distribution, the book library and publishing house would definitely earn more, but he also earned a lot. Could he be a little more careful?
However, when she thought of the talents of these two newcomers, Machida Yuanzi, who was originally gnashing her teeth, sighed helplessly.
If Machida Yuanzi knew about the deeds of that old thief, she would definitely be very happy. After all, that old thief almost killed her editor. Compared to that old thief's editor, Machida Yuanzi was considered lucky.
However, Machida Enko was dissatisfied with Kato and Shiha, but these two guys didn't know about this. Or rather, Kato had gone to meet Shiha as soon as he arrived in Tokyo.
As for what the two of them would do after meeting up, it was easy to guess.
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