For this type of novel, the major publishing houses basically supported it. Even if the sales were not good, they would try their best to provide publishing resources.
It was just like how a film company needed some literary films to make themselves look good, but the company's real profit came from the sales of novels.
"Don't be dejected."
The editor-in-chief was very dissatisfied with the state of the editors."Look at you guys. The sales haven't even come out yet. Word of mouth isn't everything. Although some novels don't have high ratings, the sales are still very good.”
"That's true."
"There's a chance!"
"It's just a reputation."
The editors 'eyes lit up with hope. Word of mouth didn't mean everything. There were some books in the market that were good but not popular. There were also some books that had a terrible reputation but still had high sales.
In this day and age, many readers were proud of their integrity. Sherlock Holmes was the former in everyone's eyes, but the other supernova books might be the latter!
This group of people was easy to fool.
The deputy chief editor pursed her lips.
There were very few works that were good but not popular, but there were also not many works that had bad reviews but good sales. In the general law of the book market, most of the time, reputation and sales could be directly proportional...
"The meeting is over."
The chief editor waved his hand.
After everyone dispersed, the chief editor was immediately worried. This state was not even as good as the editors from before."It seems that the supernova this time is indeed a mess, unless a miracle happens.”
"Miracles?"
The deputy editor, who had not left either, smiled bitterly and said,"Let's go to the statistics department. The first week's sales of Supernova should have been calculated. Let's see where the miracle is.”
The chief editor was speechless.
The two of them arrived at the relevant department side by side. The chief editor and the deputy chief editor looked at the female supervisor of the statistics department at the same time."Supernova's first week sales should be out by now, right?”
"You're here?"
The female supervisor's expression was a little cold, as if she was particularly unhappy with these two guys. After saying a few words, she turned around and started working."The statistics are on the table. If you have anything you don't understand, come and ask me.”
"How did we offend her?"
The chief editor and the deputy chief editor looked at each other, then picked up the statistics table and took a look.
This glance killed their last hope, because the best-selling " Piercing the Heavens " only had 180,000 copies.
This was a supernova!
In previous years, if the sales of the works that could be published with the Supernova Award did not exceed 300,000 in the first week, they would be embarrassed to go out and greet others.
But this year, the highest sales volume of Supernova's five books was less than 200,000.
However, there was at least one thing that was right.
They were the top five supernovas, and their sales figures matched their names perfectly.
" At least we didn't make a mistake in our sales forecast." The chief editor said," Anyway, it's the readers 'fault no matter how I think about it."”
"Yes, yes!"
The deputy editor nodded.
The female supervisor who had left returned. When she heard the conversation between the two of them, she was instantly furious and began to curse,
"Are you two idiots right? His mother's phone was exploding with calls!
The entire blue planet is urging me for goods. Now, as soon as I answer the phone, the other party will say Sherlock Holmes!
My head is about to explode! Do you know how busy I've been these past few days in order to supply the goods? Do you know how many days I haven't slept well?？”
"Ah?"
The two of them were stunned. They looked at the statistics table and confirmed,
"Sherlock Holmes is the last in sales. How can it be out of stock? Why do you look like you've eaten a spark? There must be some mistake, right?”
"Did you make a mistake?"
The female protagonist looked at the two people in front of her as if she was looking at an idiot.
"Sherlock Holmes only has a total of 100,000 copies in stock, and it was sold out on the third day after Supernova was published.”
The chief editor and deputy chief editor were stunned.
The female supervisor revealed a dangerous smile and said in a strangely gentle tone,
"Then, please answer me, which idiot made the decision to publish 100,000 copies of Sherlock Holmes in advance?”
"Him!"
The chief editor and the deputy chief editor pointed at each other at the same time.
For the entire novel market, detective reasoning was a very unpopular subject.
Especially when fantasy novels from another world were very popular, this kind of theme lacked a reader base.
Therefore, even though Sherlock Holmes had a great reputation.
The editors didn't have high expectations for the novel's sales, but it seemed that many people were wrong.
"Why didn't you tell us?"
The editor-in-chief's mood was fluctuating.
The female supervisor was stunned for a moment, then she looked at the two of them sympathetically.
"You guys actually didn't know? The day Sherlock Holmes was out of stock, I informed the managing editor. It seems that our managing editor didn't tell you.”
The chief editor and the deputy chief editor felt their hearts turn cold.
They knew the personality of the managing editor. For such a big matter to not be notified to their editorial department, there could only be one reason:
The managing editor was unhappy.
The company had five editorial departments, each responsible for a different genre of work. At the same time, each editorial department also had an editor-in-chief and a deputy editor-in-chief. The two of them were responsible for fictional fantasy novels.
The head of the five editorial departments was the company's chief editor.
The female supervisor saw that the two of them were in such a miserable state and was not angry. She only felt that it was a little funny and said,
"Does your editorial department know that it's the same? Selling goods is my responsibility.”
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