Chapter 199 - Place and Receive Orders (1/2)
Chapter 199: Place and Receive Orders
Actually, Meng Fan forgot something too. His stream.
The earliest group of fickle netizens had come to his stream for drawing. Then, most of them turned out to be manga lovers, who made up a large group of potential consumers.
He thought about it and decided 50,000 was not a lot, and there was no need for him to think of ways to buy it himself.
The biggest problem now with completing the [Professional Manga Artist] task was the lack of content. It took 11 chapters to be updated to make up one volume.
“8 chapters!”
Meng Fan flipped through the volume and the script Mr.Sleepy had sent him. Although publishing 8 chapters in the first volume wasn’t a great move; one should at least publish 9 chapters to have a complete story; Meng Fan didn’t have time to worry about this. They did this so they could publish more single volumes.
Of course, the premise is that the number of pages in the first 8 chapters were enough to support a single copy.
“8 Chapters?”
Mr.Sleepy was familiar with the content… and had no objections to this at all. He actually chuckled as he responded to Meng Fan, “I think it’s great! Chapter 8 and Chapter 9 should be very connected, so that once they finish reading chapter 8… Hahaha this cliffhanger, it’s a killer! I like it!”
Meng Fan was speechless. He didn’t think that’s how Mr.Sleepy would interpret this.
It made sense. His favorite thing on earth was cliffhangers. And he left you hanging for days, too. He’d been cursed and scolded as a “cliffhanger dog”. After all, he graduated from the cliffhanger class, so his brain must be fragmented too!
“Then it’s set. I’ll go place the order now.”
Mr.Sleepy hung up.
Place an order?
These wealthy people were so different from us mortals. Even the tone of his voice had substance.
The issue with the publishing house had been resolved, and Meng Fan felt no matter how well the first volume sold, good or bad, they’d have no difficulty continuing publications in the future. Even if the sales volumes will decrease in the future, it was enough for the first few publications to sell 100,000 copies.
The System didn’t specify how many sales each volume had to make; it only said the total sales had to reach 100,000.
Turns out, this was indeed the case.
The [Professional Manga Artist] task was at 1/10 experience points. The 1 had come from the first volume publication of “Guide to Campus RoMANce”.
As for why the sales count was 0… This was because all of the single copies of “Guide to Campus RoMANce” had been gifted by Meng Fan after he printed them. He didn’t go through any sales channels, so the System refused him the experience.
Now that “Guide to Campus RoMANce” had updated to chapter 12 or so, he could think about publishing the second volume, regardless if they planned to sell or not.
Meng Fan decided to find Qin Jiao again the next day to publish this manga since she’d helped him last time with her connections.
“No problem.” Qin Jiao then asked, “My studio has a slot for a single volume publication, so you can just deliver it. Are you going to pay for it yourself again?”
This time, Meng Fan wasn’t in a rush. Moreover, he could leave everything to the publishers to deal with it. He had to use the sales channels somehow; even a little bit counts.
And “Guide to Campus RoMANce” was very popular too; people might actually buy it.
“Let’s go.”
Qin Jiao asked Meng Fan to wait while she drove the car out.
“Where? The publisher?”
“The studio! Even if you’re just a shopkeeper, you should meet your employees!”
Shortly after, they arrived at the XiZi cultural center’s front gate. Meng Fan saw the Da Mei studio sign as soon as he stepped out of the car and walked towards it. He stepped in there to take a look and paused for a moment. The interior and exterior of the studio were from two different worlds!