The store manager was a Sven man wearing gold-rimmed glasses, and when he heard Cai Afen's question, he raised his head and glanced at her: "Which publishing house are you from?"

Cai Afen smiled: "It must be a cultural publishing house." Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

The store manager smiled, every time a new book is on the shelves, as long as the sales are hot and attract attention, no matter which publishing house it is, it will come from time to time to inquire about the sales of hot new books.

In fact, in this regard, there is a statistical agency called "Snail" in Taiwan that has come to collect statistics on the publication and sales of traditional Chinese books and rank them.

In addition to the total ranking, the snail sales list also has specific classification lists such as martial arts, romance, and supernatural.

As long as you wait for the previous month, the snail sales list will announce the book sales list for the whole month.

However, because books and novels are too expensive, there are not many people who are really willing to spend money to buy books, so in this case, Taiwan's "Butterfly Rental Reading List" was born.

As the name suggests, the Butterfly Rental Reading List is to count the rental reading of each book.

Every week, the Butterfly Rental Reading List will publish four major rankings including martial arts novel rental ranking, literary novel rental reading ranking, magazine rental ranking and comic rental reading ranking.

Each of the five major rankings has its own division, and each category lists the top 50 rentals.

Among them, martial arts novels and literary novels cover a wide range, so the turbulence in each ranking is relatively large, the former includes all imaginary novels, and the latter is a literary novel that describes reality and documentary.

The list of magazine rentals and comics is basically not changed once every three to five months.

As for the author list, this is even more so, there are indeed newcomers who emerge every year, but they rarely make it to the author list.

""Looking for Qin" sold well. The store manager looked at the cashier who was checking out the customer, and said to Cai Afen with a smile: "This Qinglian Sword Immortal is an old author, wearing a vest and going into battle, it's really bullying newcomers!"

Cai Afen remembered Li Qing's young and handsome face, and said with a wry smile: "Boss, you guessed wrong, Qinglian Swordsman is really a new author, and it is a very new newcomer, how can you think so?"

"Look at this Feng, are you sure it's a newcomer?" The store manager looked at Cai Afen suspiciously: "I have also watched "Xun Qin Ji", I have been seeing it since yesterday, and now you look at my ......eyes."

The store manager took off his glasses and pointed to his bloodshot eyes, "I stayed up late on Chinese New Year's Eve, and I have to come to work in the New Year, and my life is miserable!"

Cai Afen said sympathetically: "Me too. ”

After chatting with the store manager for a few words, and after learning that the sales were good, Cai Afen was in a good mood, and then walked into the store, walked to a young man who was holding a second novel of "Xun Qin Ji" in front of the bookcase, and asked with a smile: "Pretty boy, is this new book good?"

The young man pushed his heavy glasses, glanced at Cai Afen with misty eyes, ignored her, and continued to look down.

"Miss, this rotten boy has no money to buy books, he has been in since the morning to open the door, and he can't get away, it's three o'clock in the afternoon, you ask him if it's good-looking, it's better to ask me if the book sells well." The salesperson next to him twitched at the corner of his mouth.

Cai Afen was stunned when she heard this, she has been seeing it since the morning, and now, this young man doesn't eat?

The young man also seemed a little embarrassed, looked at the second volume of "Xun Qin Ji" in his hand, and took out the first and third volumes on the shelf, and then leisurely came to the counter and took out a banknote: "Boss, check out." ”

The counter is busy, when the cashier is busy, the store manager will also help to check out, take three volumes of "Xun Qin Ji", put it on a machine to test it a little, after hearing the sound of Didi, the store manager said: ""Xun Qin Ji" three volumes, the price is a total of 60 yuan, the new book activity is 20% off, three volumes of a total of 48 yuan. ”

After finishing speaking, the store manager took the banknote in the young man's hand, looked at it carefully, and then opened the cash register: "Accept you Wu Baiyuan, and find you four hundred and fifty-two yuan." ”

After looking for the money, the store manager personally helped the boy to pack the books in a plastic bag, and then took out a note from the carton next to him and stuffed it into the plastic bag: "This is the membership card of our store, "Xun Qin Ji" is a complete set of three copies at a time, and the next time I come to our store to buy "Xun Qin Ji", it will be 20% off." ”

The young man didn't expect such a good thing, and after taking the plastic bag, he took out the membership card sticky note and looked at it, and smiled contentedly.

Looking at the back of the young man leaving, Cai Afen asked the salesman: "Didn't you say that the rotten boy had no money to buy books?"

"How did I know he would have five hundred dollars in his pocket!" said the salesman with a roll of his eyes.

"Remember, the customer is God!"

Cai Afen frowned, and then looked at the few remaining "Xun Qin Ji" on the bookshelf in front of him: "This is almost sold, the first volume is less than ten copies, remember to add it quickly!"

"I know, do you want to buy it, miss?" asked the salesman impatiently.

"I ...... I'll buy it too!"

Cai Afen was asked, she thought about it, then gritted her teeth and nodded.

Her monthly salary is only about 1,000 yuan, and when the general monthly salary of the mainland wage earners is only about 600 yuan, this salary is definitely a middle-level level, but in Hong Kong, it is barely enough to make ends meet.

She picked up three volumes of "Xun Qin Ji" on the bookshelf and ran to the counter to check out.

"Miss, since you are from the Culture Publishing House, I have to ask you for help with something!"

The manager of Glory Bookstore said with a smile while settling the bill for Cai Afen: "You have also seen that "Xun Qin Ji" is indeed selling well, and good books don't need to be promoted, and you will be attracted by reading a few chapters in the bookstore." And today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, according to the sales situation in previous years, the sales of the first and second days of the new year are the lowest time, but from the third day of the new year, our bookstore will usher in the outbreak period, and when it comes to the outbreak period, the daily sales volume will be several times that of the first and second days of the new year!"

Cai Afen nodded.

The store manager continued: "The book "Xun Qin Ji" is really good, I also like it too, please urge Qinglian Sword Immortal more, let him strive to submit more manuscripts this month, publish a few more volumes, otherwise some pirates in Hong Kong are also a headache, in addition, if you can, let Qinglian Sword Man hold a signing party with us, what do you think?"

"No, he's not a big-name writer!" Thinking of Li Qing who was far away in the mainland, Cai Afen said with some embarrassment.

The store manager glared: "Do you know what a potential stock is? Now is the time to invest and bet, let him hold a signing meeting, it will also help increase sales." Remember, if you can this month, let him come to our Glory Bookstore for a book signing, and don't go to another store, you know?"

“OK，OK！”

Seeing that the store manager was getting more and more anxious, Cai Afen reluctantly made an OK gesture. (To be continued.) )