Chapter 30 (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Penguin Publishing Company, marketing department.

Stoner and Walter, the two editors, were nervously monitoring the real-time data of popular books on the Internet.

“How is it? How much of a chance does Dunbar’s ‘Ghosthand’ have this time?”

“According to our calculation, his chances of winning is zero.”

“Are you kidding me?! How can it be zero?”

“‘Candle in the Tomb’ and ‘The Lost Tomb’, which are ranked at the top, are rising too fast. We’re ranked last in popularity and it’s only a fraction of their ratings.”

“Maybe these two books are faking their numbers.”

“If they can be popular, why can’t we?”

Stoner and Walter decided that the first two books were only popular because of marketing and other means, so they had to use their own marketing ways to counter it.

Penguin Publishing Company was the world’s leading publishing platform.

As long as they poured resources into and advertised a book, even if the content was rubbish, it would still be pushed to readers and would be at the top of the best-seller list.

This was Penguin Publishing’s ability to make money.

“Are you sure you want to use our outsourcing marketing platform?”

The so-called “outsourcing marketing platform” was just a euphemistic way of saying they wanted to hire internet trolls.

Their way of doing things was simple and crude.

If “Ghosthand” was not popular enough, they would throw money at it until they reached their desired level.

Walter made a phone call to the service outsourcing company that they worked with.

It was a leading company in the black market in the United States called The Traffic Players.

Rumors even spread that Trump’s election campaign was fully contracted by that company.

This meant that as long as the money was right, they could make you a president, let alone a mere book.

Twitter was their main battlefield. They were extremely good at operating through multiple accounts and multiple threads.

They would find plenty of internet trolls to like and retweet comments, then create their own hashtags so as to get into the hot topics and increase the popularity of specific information.

They even promised that they could get into the top 10 trending topics on Twitter.

The editors gave the order. “Do it!”

The marketing team then took action.