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In order to avoid vicious competition such as price wars in the market, the neon government implemented a "book reselling system", that is, publishing houses sell books to bookstores through publishers, and then bookstores sell them to readers.

Through these two systems, Neon has two giant book publishers (distributors), namely Tokyo Publishing Sales and RB Publishing Sales.

These two giant companies have monopolized more than half of Neon's publishing market. It was once rumored that these two companies controlled 80% of the market circulation of books.

Hiroto Akihara nodded. He had learned a lot through some books before, many of which were about these two companies.

"President Anjiu, what does this have to do with our distribution channels?"

An Jiujin just shook his head, "Mr. Akihara, as a local company in Tokyo, through some relationships, we can bypass Dongban and Nihon and sell books in small batches to local bookstores. But if we want to sell to other regions , you must first greet Dongban and Nihonban."

An Jiujin just sighed, "Our current partner is Tokyo Sales. Now there are 3 copies of the first edition of 18000 copies. We have to rely on the other party to distribute."

Akihara Hiroto didn't expect to think of this, but he quickly understood Anjiu's meaning, that is, because of the need for profit, Anjiu Bookstore must obey Tokyo's sales regulations.

Hiroto Akihara sighed mentally. It seems that there are many unspoken rules in every industry.

However, why could "New Novel" be directly sold to bookstores and related institutions in other places?

Akihara Hiroto raised his doubts to Akutsu Goichi.

Just as An Jiujin took a sip from his teacup, he explained: "Mr. Qiuyuan, there is a gap between people, and the same is true between publishing houses. As the four major publishing houses, Mantan House naturally has privileges."

"In fact, the industry has always believed that the four major publishing houses hold a lot of equity in Dongban and Nihonban, and even have considerable influence within the board of directors of the two companies."

Hiroto Akihara was a little speechless, the power of capital, it seems that no world should be underestimated.

Forget it, it still depends on the quality of the book, let's continue to work steadily.

……

The two chatted about other aspects, and then ended the conversation.

Just when Hiroto Akihara was about to leave, Maki Satake, who was processing work at the side, suddenly spoke up, took out a pink lunch box, and said to him, "Teacher Akihara, this is today's lunch."

Hiroto Akihara was a little surprised, realizing that he almost forgot lunch, and replied: "I've been bothering you all this time, thank you."

Satake Maki waved his hand, "It's nothing, I just happened to do my own share, I just did one by chance."

Akihara Hiroto nodded with a smile, and planned to leave with the bento box.

But unexpectedly, Satake Maki stopped him, "Mr. Akihara, can I have dinner here?"

"Why?" Hiroto Akihara stopped in his tracks.

Satake Maki said a little embarrassedly, "There are not enough bento boxes at home, so please give me the box after you finish eating, so I can clean it directly."

She lied because she still had several bento boxes at home.But she wanted to find a reason to get close to the "idol" she had always admired.

"Sorry to trouble you." Akihara Hiroto was kind, he looked around and found another problem: "Where to eat?"

At this time, An Jiujin just stood up, said "I still have something to do", and left the scene in a hurry...

As a married old man, he still knows when to advance and when to retreat.

Satake, there is only so much the president can do for you!

Seeing the president leaving, Satake Maki said "Sorry, president" in his heart, and falsely led Akihara Yuto to the small desk where he was working just now, and packed his things at the same time.

The two sat down around a small table and opened the lunch box.

Looking at Akihara Yuto who was so close at hand, Satake Maki's face was slightly flushed.

It would be nice to be able to do this every day...

[111.1 Chapter Eleven Serialization and Conspiracy]

After lunch, Akihara Yuto rejected Satake Maki's proposal to leave the bowls and chopsticks directly, but took the initiative to clean the bowls and chopsticks before handing over the bowls and chopsticks to the other party.

Then he said "goodbye" to Satake Maki, and left Anjiu Bookstore.

After more than 40 minutes of journey, Hiroto Akihara came to the Internet cafe he went to before again.

He sat in front of the computer in the cubicle and opened his previous post "Death of a Mystery Novelist".

While waiting for the webpage to load, he lowered his head and thought...

The weekly sales volume of "Suspect X" last week was almost 4000 copies. The number may not seem large, but in fact it was 3500 copies more than the 500 copies estimated by Akutsu Goichi.

So, network drainage is still somewhat effective?

But it's not very good, maybe it's just that President An Jiu made a wrong estimate.

At this time, the slow web page also loaded.Hiroto Akihara dragged the mouse and began to browse from top to bottom.

Well, it seems a bit unexpected.

From top to bottom, there have been more than a hundred replies, the vast majority of which are urging "the subject to update", and the other is the reply "dissatisfied", and only a very small number of them are guessing who the murderer is.

Hiroto Akihara is not surprised, he only updated the first part of the original work, so it is normal to be urged by so many people.

After all, no matter which world it is, tantalizing people will cause dissatisfaction among others.

But if you don't do this, you may not be able to help "Suspect X" drain.

Hiroto Akihara said sorry in his heart, and planned to stick to his plan—continue to update step by step to ensure the popularity of the post.

After Akihara Hiroto made this decision, he looked at the post guessing who the murderer was for a while, and found that the replies inside were messy, but no one thought that the mystery novelist really committed suicide.

After glancing at it, Hiroto Akihara continued typing on the keyboard and entered the second part of the story of "Mystery Novelist".

……

After confirming that the last person the deceased saw was the nurse, the detective immediately found her and briefly learned about the background of the female nurse.

He found that the ethnicity of the female nurse was the Ainu from the Thousand Islands. This ethnicity has always been discriminated against by the neon mainstream society, and the enrollment rate and employment rate are far below the social average.

But after some conversations, the detective found that the female nurse had a very gentle personality and had a good personal relationship with the deceased, and she was even informed by the deceased of various family conflicts.

In addition, the female nurse has a very well-known weakness: once she tells a lie, she will vomit.

After thinking about it, the detective began to question him.

At this time, a series of images appeared in the mind of the female nurse.

On the night of the incident, she and the mystery novelist were playing shogi. Suddenly, the mystery novelist overturned the chessboard, causing everything on the table to fall to the ground, including the two small medicine bottles originally prepared by the female nurse.

Then the female nurse picked up the medicine bottle and injected the mystery novelist, but after the injection, she found that she had mistaken the medicine bottle and gave the novelist an overdose of morphine as medicine.