28. Universal Magazine, Horror Sales(1/2)
On the weekend, Li Qingyuan, the martial arts editor-in-chief of Global Novel Weekly, received the 200,000-word saved manuscript given to him by Wang Zhe. After staying up late to read it, Li Qingyuan was a little excited.
Because the plot of the novel is really wonderful, and the settings are so wonderful that he can't extricate himself.
He now had an impulse, and couldn't wait to find Wang Zhe for the remaining manuscripts. He wanted to read them all at once, and he wanted to know what happened next.
On Monday, Li Qingyuan attended the Global Magazine conference as usual. Whether it is the editor-in-chief and editor-in-chief of comics or novels weekly, they will attend. President and general manager Yu Chengliang sent a stack of information and said seriously: "Everyone, our magazine's sales were still dead last week."
"The total sales of novels and magazines in the latest issue are only 310,000 in a week."
"The comic magazine is a little more, but it is only 500,000, but it has not made any progress. Our magazine has been established for five or six years. The goal set by the head office for us is to achieve a stable sales of three million per issue in seven years. We are still far from this goal. If we can't do it then, we will all leave."
Yu Chengliang said with an extremely serious and worried tone: "Now, we are all people on the same boat. Our only goal now is to create higher sales. This year, we have two opportunities to use the group's national channels. When sales are not stable for three million, the group channels will not be used for us in unlimited quantities."
"We need to discuss how to make good use of these two opportunities."
In the conference room, several editors and editors of two magazines fell silent.
It’s not easy to stabilize the sales of three million.
The best sales volume of Global Comics Weekly before was the use of the group channels several times, and the total sales volume could only reach 1.1 million. The second time I used the group channels continuously, it still maintained at 1.1 million, and there was no chance of impacting three million.
Global Novel Weekly's best results were just over one million twice.
Since then, Global Group has quota for magazines every year to use the group's distribution channels. If there is a significant increase in these times, there will be more opportunities!
Three million is a standard!
If the sales volume of more than three million can be reached in three or four consecutive periods, then Global Magazine will be completely incorporated into all sales channels under Global Group, and each issue can be issued simultaneously through national channels, completely receiving the support of the group.
Liang Chao, editor-in-chief of Global Comics, said: "Mr. Yu, to be honest, this is too difficult. Unless the head office gives us more funds and we go to dig up several great masters from other comics, the goal of three million will be almost impossible to achieve."
The martial arts editor-in-chief of the comic magazine said: "That's right, Mr. Yu, we have to slowly accumulate readers and slowly cultivate and discover authors. It's almost a chance to poach people directly, because the headquarters is not short of money anyway."
Yu Chengliang glanced at the people of Global Comics and said in a deep voice: "Dao, Dao, Dao, have you forgotten the so-called great master you dug from Tiexue Comics last year? A contract fee of 20 million yuan, a draft of 5,000 yuan, what is the result?"
hiss!
Everyone in the conference room gasped and no one dared to speak!
That so-called great god was a person who killed Global Magazine. No one dared to mention this topic easily. After all, it was the great god who was dug up by Liang Chao, the editor-in-chief of comics.
But who would have thought that the great god who was originally in Iron Blood Comics would not be able to come here?
In addition to the previous three issues that brought some sales and pushed Global Comics to millions, Liang Chao and others had not been excited yet, but suddenly fell sharply and fell to the level of 300,000 and 500,000 again.
Because the comics published by that great master in Global Comics Weekly were heavily flooded, and he could talk about more than a dozen manuscripts in all kinds of nonsense, that was, the manuscript fee was obtained, and readers would not buy it.
Seeing that he was about to be cheated, the great god's comics were too miserable. If he continued, the pace of Global Comic Weekly was about to be cheated to death, Yu Chengliang made up his mind to breach the contract and paid a full 30 million yuan in liquidated damages!
Since then, Global Comics Weekly has been in a slump, spending more than 70 million yuan in funds, and it has been wasted all!
Liang Chao and others from Global Comics magazine were silent, and they all lowered their heads and couldn't say a word. That was indeed their major mistake.
The group company personally asked about it, called Yu Chengliang over and scolded him, and almost got fired!
The most hateful thing is that after the great god received a penalty for liquidated damages from Global Magazine, it did not stop. Instead, it turned around and submitted the article to his old boss Iron Blood Comics Weekly. After the successful signing, his new comic White-haired Swordsman achieved good results and is still serialized. He ranks in the top ten in the voting of readers of all serialized comics, and is still a great god!
As a fool, you know that Global Magazine was cheated.
However, they still had no choice but to deal with each other.
This is the most infuriating.
The atmosphere in the office was very dull. Yu Chengliang got angry and no one dared to speak.
Fang Xueshu, editor-in-chief of Novel Weekly, coughed softly, attracting everyone's attention. Seeing Yu Chengliang's sharp eyes looking at him, he hurriedly said: "Mr. Yu, our martial arts novels have discovered a potential manuscript."
As he said that, he winked at Li Qingyuan.
Li Qingyuan smiled bitterly, knowing that he was forcibly pushed out by the editor-in-chief, but it was also his chance to perform.
He handed a stack of information to Yu Chengliang from the table, and Li Qingyuan said: "Mr. Yu, this is a martial arts novel called The Legend of the Condor Heroes that we signed last week. The author is a newcomer, but the novel has the style of a great man, with excellent writing style, novel settings, wonderful plot, and rare and detailed character descriptions. I have read the 200,000-word manuscript, and I think it has great potential."
"This is the data about this novel after the first publication of the previous issue. Among the customer service calls we received last week, hundreds of calls were asking about the novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes. Most of them urged to update it as soon as possible, and a small number of people asked for some details and expressed their expectation for this novel."
“This is a rare statistic.”
Generally speaking, the customer service of Global Novel Magazine does not receive hundreds of readers in a week, but last week they did receive hundreds of calls related to The Legend of the Condor Heroes, which is the confidence that Li Qingyuan dared to get at the Monday meeting.
Yu Chengliang took the information and started reading it, and asked seriously: "Is he a pure newcomer?"
Li Qingyuan nodded and said affirmatively: "Yes, Mr. Yu, he is a newcomer, and he is the first time he has published a press release."
Yu Chengliang saw the signing information, which said that the author owns the full copyright, and the magazine only owns the priority signing rights of the copyright, and frowned slightly: "All the copyrights are in his hands?"
Everyone's eyes immediately looked at Li Qingyuan.
Giving all copyrights to a newcomer is rare in even their small magazines.
Li Qingyuan hurriedly explained: "Mr. Yu, I am very optimistic about this novel, and the author has strongly requested that the full copyright be retained, so I can only agree and ask for priority, which is in line with the magazine's regulations."
Yu Chengliang didn't say anything, just nodded and continued to look through the information. Last week, it was just the first issue of The Legend of the Condor Heroes, so there was nothing to see on the sales impact. He mainly checked whether the hundreds of phone calls were true. He saw that there were indeed detailed data, so he looked at the printed manuscript. After a brief look, he felt that it was indeed very attractive and had a trend of everyone.
The office became extremely quiet again, leaving only the rustling sound of Yu Chengliang turning the manuscript paper. Everyone could see that Yu Chengliang felt uncomfortable when he saw it. He wanted to read it carefully, but time was limited, so this was the conference room.
After a while, Yu Chengliang himself couldn't stand it anymore. The rough look made him feel uncomfortable. He said immediately: "Li Qingyuan, you can follow up on the data of this book immediately. I will have to end the meeting today!"
Yu Chengliang wanted to go back to the office to read the manuscript, but as soon as he walked to the door, he saw Jiang Xianping, the head of the sales department, walking over quickly.
"Mr. Yu, good news."
Yu Chengliang stopped and asked, "What good news?"
Jiang Xianping hurriedly replied: "Mr. Yu, our Global Novel Weekly sales have improved a lot. It has only been half a day today, but our sales points have been sold out and are now urging us to ask for goods."
Now!
Everyone in the office calmed down, and their eyes looked at the sales department manager one after another, surprised, disbelieved, and looked different.
Fang Xueshu, editor-in-chief of Global Novel Weekly, hurriedly asked: "How much sales? Are there any statistics? How many new orders are added?"
Li Qingyuan was also a little excited.
Even the editors of several novels and magazines were a little excited, and they would benefit from this achievement.
Jiang Xianping immediately replied: "The sales volume in one morning was 250,000, and the order volumes on each sales were 200,000. Just today, we can confirm that the sales volume of this novel weekly magazine is at least 450,000. However, according to our experience, the sales volume of a week should be about three times that of the first day, so the sales volume of a novel weekly magazine this week may reach 750,000."
hiss!
There was a sound of gasping in the office.
From 310,000 in the previous issue to 750,000 in this issue?
More than one hundred percent increase?
Is it so scary?
Yu Chengliang stared at Jiang Xianping excitedly and asked loudly: "Are you sure the numbers are correct?"
Jiang Xianping replied affirmatively: "Mr. Yu, I'm sure I'm right. There are so many numbers, and this is just the number counted just now. The orders in the future may increase."
Yu Chengliang looked back at several editors and editor-in-chief Fang Xueshu of Novel Weekly, suppressed his excitement and said, "Get a few more of your last two issues and this issue of magazines. Don't get off work. Let's study here to see what the reasons for the increase in sales are, find out the reasons, and we will prescribe medicine."
The editors of the novel weekly such as Fang Xueshu and Li Qingyuan all agreed excitedly: "Yes, Mr. Yu!"
The comic editor Liang Chao and others looked a little ugly, and he and Fang Xueshu have always been in a competitive relationship.
Global Magazine has limited resources, and comic magazines and novel magazines both need more resources, and competition has never stopped.
Last time, Liang Chao dug up a great master to trick the magazine into tens of millions of funds and many resources, allowing Fang Xueshu to gain the upper hand. Now if martial arts novel weekly really rises, Liang Chao knows that the next two opportunities for group channel promotion may be from novel weekly, and it has nothing to do with his comic weekly.
Yu Chengliang continued to Jiang Xianping: "Lao Jiang, go to the sales department now to watch and report the latest situation to me at any time."
Jiang Xianping also agreed excitedly, turned around and left to continue staring.
Fang Xueshu asked someone to bring dozens of books on the previous issue, and everyone studied the novel weekly in the conference room!
Three weekly magazines and one comparison!
The difference is very clear. Under the eyes of more than a dozen professional editors, they can be seen clearly within a few minutes!
"The only difference is that the Legend of the Condor Heroes was serialized?"
Yu Chengliang himself also saw the difference, but he still asked with disconfidence.
He couldn't believe it!
Why does a newcomer novel have such a terrifying improvement effect?
Li Qingyuan is the editor-in-chief of martial arts and the person who personally excavated the The Legend of the Condor Heroes. At this time, he spoke: "Mr. Yu, it is indeed the case. Several other new novels have been serialized for several issues, but they have no effect. Only this The Legend of the Condor Heroes is the latest serialization last week, and it also received hundreds of calls from readers last week, with great potential!"
Fang Xueshu said at the right time: "Mr. Yu, the conclusion is obvious. We have discovered a god-level martial arts novel. If it is not promoted on a large scale, it would be a waste. I suggest using the group channel to promote the novel weekly next week and put the novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes on the main promotion page!"
Liang Chao hurriedly said: "Mr. Yu, it's only the second phase, and we can't draw conclusions so early. We have only two opportunities to use the group channels this year. Both are very precious and cannot be used casually. I suggest watching a few more phases. If there is really potential, it's not too late for us to use the group channels again."
Yu Chengliang looked at the manuscript of The Legend of the Condor Heroes, tapped his fingers on the table, and finally said conservatively: "Then wait a little longer."
Editors of novels and magazines such as Fang Xueshu and Li Qingyuan were a little disappointed.
At this time, Jiang Xianping knocked on the door and walked in, and said excitedly: "Mr. Yu, a new order came in half an hour, and another 200,000 yuan was added. Together with the previous 450,000 yuan, our latest short story magazine can have at least 650,000 yuan in sales, and it will inevitably increase in the future. I estimate it will reach millions!"
Bang!
The water cup that Liang Chao had just held in his hand fell directly to the ground. He was frightened by the number and didn't hold the cup firmly. His eyes were wide open, and the glass was sprinkled all over the floor, and the tea was sprinkled on his pants without paying attention!
To be continued...