Chapter 904 - Sold Out in Three Minutes! (2/2)

“Hello?”

Zhang Xingjie ran to his desk to answer the phone.

“Mr. Zhang, it’s me.”

A familiar voice came from the other end of the line. The voice continued, “I am Huang Yingnan from Dangran. You might be paying attention to the sales volume of the pre-order. This book is too popular. 500,000 copies are sold out in the blink of an eye. The first round of preorder has been an unprecedented success!”

“Yes, yes!” Zhang Xingjie immediately said with a smile. “I’m also very surprised. I thought Fang Qiu’s books would be popular, but I didn’t expect it to be so popular!”

“You didn’t expect it?

“Neither did I!

“Our website crashed because of him!” Huang Yingnan thought.

Then, he brought the conversation back to the topic.

“I’m calling you just to ask if there’s a second round of pre-order?”

“Well…” Zhang Xingjie gave a wry smile and said, “Mr. Huang, the first batch of copies have been pre-ordered. Now, I can’t even deliver copies to the offline bookstores in five days.”

“Then print more. How can you give up the money that you can earn properly?” Huang Yingnan suggested at once.

“Uh…” Zhang Xingjie frowned and was tempted. He immediately began to consider it carefully.

“Because this is Fang Qiu’s first book and it’s a new book, the printing requirements were very demanding. The printing factory of the previous six books could not print it in large quantities. Printing 500,000 copies in five days was the limit of their capability.

“But Huang Yingnan is right. How can I give up the money that I can earn properly?

“Wasn’t it just a book?

“I could contact a few more printing factories, spend more money and let them print at the same time!”

Thinking of this, Zhang Xingjie no longer hesitated. He gritted his teeth and said, “Okay! The second round of 700,000 copies will be available for pre-order at 8 o’clock tomorrow night. I promise you’ll be able to deliver those copies on time within five days!”

“Good! It’s nice working with you!” Huang Yingnan laughed with satisfaction and said. “I’ll arrange it right away!” Then, he hung up the phone.

After hanging up the phone, Zhang Xingjie was no longer as excited as before. Instead, he looked serious. He didn’t dare to waste any time and immediately called his staff for a meeting.

After the meeting, the staff didn’t dare to hesitate. They immediately took their luggage and got ready for a business trip, to visit the printing factories all over the country and talk about the cooperation!

By the time Fang Qiu finished selecting the place where he was going to see patients this month, it was already 8:10 p.m. Thinking that his book would be available for pre-order today, he immediately logged onto the website, ready to see how many people pre-ordered it.

He entered the webpage, only to find two gray words: Sold Out!

Seeing these two words, Fang Qiu was stunned.

“Have all the copies been sold out so quickly?

“Didn’t they say that physical books weren’t popular?”

Then he couldn’t help but laugh bitterly.

“I seem to have done something great again!”

Then, Fang Qiu gave up the idea of pre-ordering one and began to call the local Chinese Medicine Hospital where he was going to see patients.

The announcement of Dangran was officially released and was updated on their Weibo account at the same time.

Everyone saw the post.

“#Pre-order of Fang Qiu’s new book# The first batch of 500,000 copies were sold out in three minutes. It’s so popular! But the first round of pre-order was closed because we only printed 500,000 copies. However, the second round of pre-order of 700,000 copies will start at 8:00 p.m. tomorrow night. It’s no more than 24 hours left. Stay tuned!”

Seeing this, everyone was not shocked at first but they immediately started calculating the downtime of Dangran’s website!

“500,000 copies sold out in three minutes and it sounds awesome, but in fact, what’s more awesome is that the website had been shut down for two whole minutes. So, in fact, the 500,000 copies have been sold out in just one minute!”

“Dangran is really shameless. They even counted the downtime. How shameless!”

“Master Fang Qiu’s popularity is far beyond that of an ordinary writer.”

“Fang Qiu is awesome!”

“I hope that when the second round of pre-order is coming, Dangran’s website won’t crash.”

Gradually, everyone stopped criticizing Dangran and began to feel surprised about the selling speed of the copies.

Undoubtedly, among them, the most shocked people were from the publishing industry.

“500,000 copies sold out in one minute?”

“Did I go back to the publishing industry ten years ago?”

“No, even at that time, the most popular writers couldn’t make such a hit!”

“It’s too amazing! This is simply earth-shaking!”

“How is this even possible? How can anyone make such an achievement in this era?”

“A wolf is entering our publishing industry.”

“No, I think he is more like a catfish.”

While some people were stunned, others were pessimistic.

“Although there is no doubt that the first round of pre-order is really impressive, aren’t they being a little too arrogant as they dare to put 700,000 copies online for the second round when 500,000 copies have been sold out in the first round.”

“Yes, the pre-order volume in the publishing industry is getting less and less each time. The first volume is 500,000, and the second one will be no more than 300,000. Complex Characters Culture Publishing Company and Dangran are blinded by the current success, aren’t they?”

“According to the current situation of the publishing industry, 500,000 copies could be sold on the first day totally because everyone is curious about the book that Fang Qiu has published. After people’s craze, it will be difficult to sell another 200,000 copies. With sales volume generated by offline stores, the total sales can reach no more than 800,000.”

“Even if it’s about 800,000 copies, it will be the top seller of this year. Amazing!”

Obviously, those people in the publishing industry were not optimistic about the second round of pre-order.

After all, they were more familiar with this industry than others. Naturally, they had their own thoughts and right to speak. However, it was not certain if the result would be the same as what they had thought.